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Founded in 1991 by ethnomusicologist Dr. Portia Maultsby, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a features collections related to African-American music traditions from the time period after WWII, as well as an extensive amount of materials documenting black radio. The AAAMC provides access to oral histories, photographs, AV recordings, and much more to scholars and the general public to increase awareness and support scholarship on the history of African-American music in the US. Collecting and maintaining materials in this way is a mode of caring for Black music and cultural processes.
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