Research Catalog

Title

The Leon Gontran Damas Sound Recording Collection [sound recording].

Author

Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978.

Supplementary Content

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Found In

Damas, Léon-Gontran 1912-1978. Léon-Gontran Damas papers, 1949-1978

Description

• 49 sound discs (in 46 cases) : analog, digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.
• 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm ;
• 49 Archival original cases in various reel to reel formats and sizes.
• 1 Hard Drive of partial collection (21 discs)

Summary

The Léon Gontran Damas Recorded Sound Collection consists primarily of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts made during his travels to Africa, France, and the United States etc.; as well as one commercial LP audio recording, "Poesie de la Negritude" by Leon G. Damas. The noncommercial material consists of interviews with Damas and others; poetry readings, and lectures by Damas and various other artists; drum music and traditional music from French Guinea and Sub-Saharan Africa. The collection includes the works of Guy Tirolien, Bernard Dadie, Jacques Rabemananjara, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Bob Stokes, Eugene Miller, Jayne Cortez and others.

Subjects

• Black people in literature
• Black people > France > Social life and customs
• Black people > Race identity > West Indies, French
• Negritude (Literary movement)
• Race awareness in literature
• Authors, Senegalese > 20th century
• Dadié, Bernard Binlin, 1916-2019
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Black author
• Literature > Black authors > History and criticism
• French poetry > Black authors > Translations into English
• Poets, Black > France
• French Guiana > Social life and customs
• Césaire, Aimé
• Tirolien, Guy
• Teachers, Black > United States
• Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989
• Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001
• Statesmen
• Poets, French Guianese
• Cortez, Jayne
• Authors, Martinican > 20th century
• Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978
• Poets, Guadeloupe > 20th century

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to CD service copy; appointment necessary.

Terms of Use (note)

• No copying of private, non-commercial material is allowed without the written permission of the proprietary rights holder. For further information contact the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Biography (note)

• Born in Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1912, Léon-Gontran Damas was a poet, journalist, educator and statesman who co-founded the Négritude literary movement in the 1930's with the Matinique born poet Aimé Césaire and the Senegalese author and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Léon-Gontran Damas Papers, 1949-1978, held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Call Number

Sc CR2011.001

OCLC

741417078

Author

Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978.

Title

The Leon Gontran Damas Sound Recording Collection [sound recording].

Access

Researchers are restricted to CD service copy; appointment necessary.

Terms Of Use

No copying of private, non-commercial material is allowed without the written permission of the proprietary rights holder. For further information contact the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Biography

Born in Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1912, Léon-Gontran Damas was a poet, journalist, educator and statesman who co-founded the Négritude literary movement in the 1930's with the Matinique born poet Aimé Césaire and the Senegalese author and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor. Damas studied modern oriental languages, literature, history and ethnology, and began his career in journalism and literature in Paris in the 1930's. His first volume of poems, Pigments, appeared in 1937. He served briefly in the French army during the Second World War, and joined the French Resistance after his demobilization. Elected representative of Guiana to the French Parliament after the war, he was appointed to the High Court of Justice and served as Rapporteur of a parliamentary commission to the Ivory Coast in 1949. During the 1950's and 1960's, he lectured and traveled extensively in the Caribbean and Latin America, where he studied the influence of African culture in the New World. Appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at Howard University in 1970, he lectured extensively at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada until his death in 1978.

Indexes

Finding aid available.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Léon-Gontran Damas Papers, 1949-1978, held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Local Note

Archival originals (various open reel formats) transferred to preservation masters and service CD copies. All CD service copies have chapters set at 5 minute intervals.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Found In:

Damas, Léon-Gontran 1912-1978. Léon-Gontran Damas papers, 1949-1978

Research Call Number

Sc CR2011.001