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Oral History of American Music (OHAM), founded in 1969, is an oral history project and archive of audio and video recordings consisting mainly of interviews with American classical and jazz musicians.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web.library.yale.edu/oham/moreaboutoham )〕 It is a special collection of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University and housed within the Sterling Memorial Library building in New Haven, Connecticut.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web.library.yale.edu/oham/access )〕 It currently holds over 2,000 interviews with more than 900 subjects and is considered the definitive collection of its kind. ==Background== The creation of Oral History of American Music was a result of musicologist Vivian Perlis's research on the life of American composer Charles Ives, for which she interviewed sixty individuals who had known him personally. During the course of the interviews, Perlis recognized the need for a larger project that would collect and preserve the oral history of American composers, and began the OHAM project in 1969 with that intent. Perlis's interviews with friends, family and colleagues of Ives became OHAM's initial collection, and were later used in her 1974 book, ''Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History'', for which she received the American Musicological Society's Otto Kinkeldey Award—the first time it had been awarded either to a woman or for work on American music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ams-net.org/awards/kinkeldeywinners.php )〕 In addition to Perlis's biography of Ives, the project's collection played an instrumental role in a number of other historical works: ''A Good Dissonance Like a Man'', a documentary film about Ives; Aaron Copland's two-volume autobiography ''Copland: 1900 through 1942'' and ''Copland: Since 1943'', co-written with Perlis; and the book ''Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellington'', co-written by Perlis and Libby Van Cleve.〔 Perlis served as the project's director until she retired in 2010 and was succeeded by its current director, Van Cleve.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://music.yale.edu/2010/07/27/vivian-perlis-announces-retirement-from-oral-history-of-american-music-project/ )〕 OHAM expanded through interviews conducted by Perlis, Van Cleve and others, as well as by acquisitions of recordings from scholars, radio producers, and concert presenters. Its largest component today is the Major Figures in American Music series, which primarily documents classical composers at varying stages in their careers. OHAM also holds five series of extensive interviews centered around specific persons and topics.〔 Grants to preserve and digitize OHAM's recordings have come from the Grammy Foundation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.grammy.org/grammy-foundation/grants/past-recipients )〕 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://delmas.org/grants/past-grants/research-library-grants/ )〕 the National Endowment for the Humanities,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=RO- *1335-80 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=RC-20497-83 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=RC-21182-87 )〕 and the Save America's Treasures initiative.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pcah.gov/sites/default/files/SAT%20Awards%201999-2010%20Table_2.pdf )〕 In 2009, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music donated $500,000 to establish an endowment fund for the organization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.yale.edu/2009/12/03/yale-s-oral-history-american-music-project-receives-endowment-support-aaron-copland-fund- )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oral History of American Music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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