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Hispanic American musicians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OHC 6
Abstract

This collection consists of 40 audiocassettes containing interviews with 28 interviewees conducted by Glasser while writing her book/ dissertation, My Music is My Flag. The collection contains interviews of prominent Puerto Rican musicians, composers, music store owners, and their relatives. The interviews date from 1988 to 1993.

Dates: 1988-1993
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

Pedro "Piquito" Marcano Collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: PeMa_001]
Identifier: MSS 61
Abstract Pedro “Piquito” Marcano was one of the foremost Puerto Rican bandleaders, composers, and vocalists of the 1930s and 1940s in New York City. He is most remembered as the founder and director of the Cuarteto Marcano. The collection consists of 0.12 cubic feet of documents such as flyers and newspaper clippings, as well as photographs of the musical figure, but also including other artists, and spans the dates from 1920-1972. The collection includes some original photographs and other ephemeral...
Dates: 1920-1972
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Pedro "Piquito" Marcano Collection

Rafael Portela, Interview Five, 1988-12-03

 Item — Object Tape 3: [Barcode: RGC.RPar.3]
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is made up of 40 audiocassette tapes containing interviews Glasser conducted with Puerto Rican musicians, people involved in the music industry and relatives as part of the research for her dissertation and subsequent book, My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, published in 1995 by University of California Press. Highlights include interviews with prominent musicians such as Bobby Capó and Johnny Rodríguez, and their relatives,...
Dates: 1988-12-03
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / OHC 6, Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

Rafael Portela, Interview Four, 1988-12-03

 Item — Object Tape 2: [Barcode: RGC.RPar.2]
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is made up of 40 audiocassette tapes containing interviews Glasser conducted with Puerto Rican musicians, people involved in the music industry and relatives as part of the research for her dissertation and subsequent book, My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, published in 1995 by University of California Press. Highlights include interviews with prominent musicians such as Bobby Capó and Johnny Rodríguez, and their relatives,...
Dates: 1988-12-03
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / OHC 6, Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

Rafael Portela, Interview Six, 1988-12-03

 Item — Object Tape 3: [Barcode: RGC.RPar.3]
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is made up of 40 audiocassette tapes containing interviews Glasser conducted with Puerto Rican musicians, people involved in the music industry and relatives as part of the research for her dissertation and subsequent book, My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, published in 1995 by University of California Press. Highlights include interviews with prominent musicians such as Bobby Capó and Johnny Rodríguez, and their relatives,...
Dates: 1988-12-03
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / OHC 6, Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

Rafael Portela, Interview Three, 1988-12-03

 Item — Object Tape 2: [Barcode: RGC.RPar.2]
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is made up of 40 audiocassette tapes containing interviews Glasser conducted with Puerto Rican musicians, people involved in the music industry and relatives as part of the research for her dissertation and subsequent book, My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, published in 1995 by University of California Press. Highlights include interviews with prominent musicians such as Bobby Capó and Johnny Rodríguez, and their relatives,...
Dates: 1988-12-03
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / OHC 6, Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

Rafael Portela, Interview Two, 1988-12-03

 Item — Object Tape 1: [Barcode: RGC.RPar.1]
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is made up of 40 audiocassette tapes containing interviews Glasser conducted with Puerto Rican musicians, people involved in the music industry and relatives as part of the research for her dissertation and subsequent book, My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, published in 1995 by University of California Press. Highlights include interviews with prominent musicians such as Bobby Capó and Johnny Rodríguez, and their relatives,...
Dates: 1988-12-03
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / OHC 6, Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection

Augusto Rodríguez Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 144
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials created by Augusto Rodríguez including correspondence, essays, and photographs capturing his musical contributions, scholarship, and personal life as well as newspaper articles, pamphlets, and records created by media outlets, journalists, and cultural foundations that document his life, musical career, achievements, and reflect upon his death. Personal and professional photographs of Augusto Rodríguez dating from the 1900s up to the 1980s comprise a...
Dates: 1900-1987
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Augusto Rodríguez Papers

Sandra Roldán Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 30
Abstract

Guitarist and musician that expressed the political struggle of Puerto Ricans and the Latino Community in general. Collection consists primarily of photographs that document Roldán’s performance career. Included as well are a number of photographic negatives. The materials date from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s.

Dates: 1953-2005; Majority of material found within 1974-1999
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Sandra Roldán Photographic Collection


About the Collections

Our collections consist of personal papers from prominent Puerto Rican artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, as well as the records of community-based organizations. Our largest collection, the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records, measures approximately 2,900 cubic feet and contains an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to assist them. The collections date from the 1890s to the present, and document Puerto Rican communities in the Northeast, Midwest, Florida, California and Hawaii.

  • Centro Library & Archives
  • Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
    2180 Third Avenue, Room 120
  • New York, NY 10035
  • centro.library@hunter.cuny.edu
  • 212-396-7874

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