Abbreviation | OHAM |
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Formation | 1969 |
Location | |
Official language | English |
Director | Libby Van Cleve |
Founder | Vivian Perlis |
Parent organization | Yale University Library |
Website | http://web.library.yale.edu/oham/about |
Formerly called | Oral History, American Music |
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.[1] 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.[2] It currently holds approximately 3,000 interviews with more than 900 subjects[3] and is considered the definitive collection of its kind.[4][5]