Scope and Contents: This collection is the result of  Professor Hamm’s research trips to South Africa in the early 1980s. The papers center around an unfinished book on the history of jive, and contain the majority of Hamm’s working sources including the following: South African newspaper clippings; South African political journals and magazines; articles and offprints by other authors; a range of information on South African radio; South African popular music magazines, including full issues of Drum; a number of notes and papers concerning music publishing and popular music appreciation in South Africa; and detailed notes on several dozen pieces of music. Of particular note are Hamm’s notebooks, drafts, articles and offprints that include the monograph Afro-American Music, South Africa, and Apartheid (Brooklyn, NY: Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1988) and his article “Rock n’ Roll in a Very Strange Society” (Popular Music 5 1985), as well as a series of lectures delivered at Brooklyn College of Music in the fall of 1986.