The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. National Ragtime and Jazz Archive

Lovejoy Library; 30 Hairpin Drive
Edwardsville, Illinois 62026

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 618-650-2695

Repository URL: http://www.siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/musiclistening/NRJA/index.shtml

Repository code: ieds

Repository description (extant): In March 1974 the Board of Trustees, in recognition of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's part in the St. Louis metropolitan community and its rich cultural tradition of jazz and ragtime music, established the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive (NRJA) at Lovejoy Library. The archive documents early recorded jazz and in particular the lives of notable jazz musicians from the St. Louis area. The John Randolph Collection, with approximately 10,500 78-rpm records, provided the original basis for the NRJA Record Collection. Today there are more than 20,000 records in the archive. Audio and videotapes, sheet music, piano rolls, photographs and oral history materials are also included.

Repository type: University Special Collection

Collections:

[St. Louis jazz musicians oral history project]