[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Marvin Dixon tape 2 of 2]

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Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Marvin Dixon's live comedy performance at the Clarence Muse Café Theater over the weekend of December 14-15th, 2012. The footage shows his routine focusing on the topics of the black male experience, including drugs, family, and childhood. The tape has heavy audio and visual glitching and distortion throughout.

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1 videocassette (MiniDV) (40 min., 23 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/4 in.

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Dixon, Marvin & Boyd, Kenneth December 2012.

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Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Marvin Dixon's live comedy performance at the Clarence Muse Café Theater over the weekend of December 14-15th, 2012. The footage shows his routine focusing on the topics of the black male experience, including drugs, family, and childhood. The tape has heavy audio and visual glitching and distortion throughout.

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1 videocassette (MiniDV) (40 min., 23 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/4 in.

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  • Preferred Citation: The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records (AR0797), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • December 2012

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  • June 10, 2022, 1:28 p.m.

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  • July 26, 2022, 3:51 p.m.

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Dixon, Marvin & Boyd, Kenneth. [Comedy night at the Muse featuring Marvin Dixon tape 2 of 2], video, December 2012; Dallas, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1941413/: accessed May 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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