Tag: music

Kykunkor Souvenir Program Booklet

Courtesy of the New York Public Library/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

A booklet from a 1934 musical drama by the Sierra Leonean composer Asadata Dafora.

Creators: Martha Drieblatt

Date of Creation: ca. 1935

Place of origin: New York, New York

Physical measurements: 31 x 23 centimeters, 16 pages

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Printed by Cooper & Aronson

Current location: New York Public Library/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Further Reading

Heard, Marcia Ethel. “Asadata Dafora: African Concert Dance Traditions in American Concert Dance.” Doctoral dissertation, New York University, 1999.  

New York Public Library. Asadata Dafora Papers Finding Aid.  <http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20812.> Accessed July 12, 2019.

Martin, John. “The Dance: A Revival, ‘Kykunkor’ is Restored to Its Original Form and Excellence – Week’s Programs.” The New York Times, January 13, X, 8, 1935.

Perpener III, John O. “Asadata Dafora,” <https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/themes-essays/african-diaspora/asadata-dafora/.>

Stiehl, Pamyla A. “The Curious Case of Kykunkor: A Dansical/Musical Exploration and Reclamation of Asadata Dafora’s Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman (1934).” Studies in Musical Theatre, 3(2):143-156, 2009.

Information contributed by Amimbola Cole Kai-Lewis.

Sheet music for “Ipo Lei Manu” and “Pua Melekule”

Sheet music for “Ipo Lei Manu,” printed by Wall, Nichols Co., Honolulu, H.I. (1892). Courtesy of Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman.

Two songs from a sheet music folio published in Honolulu in 1892.

Creators: Printed by Wall, Nichols Co., Honolulu, H.I. No composer/s credited.

Date of Creation: 1892.

Place of origin: Honolulu

Physical measurements: 11” wide x 14” high; 6 pages (back is blank)

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Print

Current location: Private collection.

Further Reading

James Revell Carr. Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries and Minstrels. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Tiffany Lani Ing. Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019. 

Stacey Kamehiro. The Arts of Kingship: Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kalākaua Era. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2009.

Noenoe Silva. Aloha Betrayed: Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.

Information contributed by Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman.

Reglas y estatutos del coro de la santa metropolitana iglesia de Santiago de Goathemala

Courtesy of the Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala

One of the few books published in Guatemala on music, it outlined rules for his cathedral singers in the colonial capital of Santiago de Guatemala.

Creators: Pedro Cortés y Larraz; printer: Don Antonio Sanchez Cubillas

Date of Creation: 1772

Place of origin: Santiago de Guatemala (current day Antigua, Guatemala)

Physical measurements: 20 pages

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Print

Current location: Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala

Further Reading

Alfred Lemmon, “Reglas y estatutos del coro de la Santa Metropolitana Iglesia de Santiago de Guatemala,” Mesoamérica: revista del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica 11, no. 19-20 (1990): 299-314.

Ana María Martínez de Sánchez, “Fuentes de archivo para el estudio del derecho canónico indiano local,” Revista de estudios histórico-jurídicos, no. 30 (2008): 485-503.

Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Information contributed by Diane Oliva.