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Collection Overview

Title: Sue Cassidy Clark papers, 1960-1990

Predominant Dates:1969-1973

ID: 1000/CLARK_1011

Primary Creator: Clark, Sue C.

Extent: 36.0 Boxes. More info below.

Arrangement: The papers are arranged into seven series, “Artists,” “Other Topics,” “Periodicals,” “Printed Music, “Scrapbooks,” “Commercial Recordings,” and “Audio Interview Cassettes.”

Date Acquired: 00/00/1992

Subjects: Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street), Butler, Jerry, Clark, Sue C., Impressions (Musical Group), Journalism, Mayfield, Curtis, Musicians, Black, Music Journalists, New York (City), Popular music - 1981-1990, Popular music - 1991-2000

Forms of Material: Soul music, Soul music (genre)

Languages: English

Abstract

Sue Cassidy Clark was a music journalist and photographer who specialized in soul, gospel, and rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Sue Cassidy Clark papers include Clark's recorded interviews, interview transcripts, photographs, published articles, correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings, promotional print material, and commercial sound recordings.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection includes recorded interviews that Clark conducted with significant and influential African-American musicians, typed transcriptions of many of these interviews, copies of published articles, photographs, many of which were taken by Clark, correspondence, handwritten notes, research material (including clippings and promotional print material), and her collection of recordings.

Many of the individuals with whom Clark conducted interviews were musical pioneers, and the period in which the interviews took place was a time when American popular music was evolving rapidly. Clark's interviews with these artists provide a snapshot of many of them at their artistic and commercial peaks, and the questions she poses on such topics as the directions soul music was taking, the performers' relationship to their audiences, and the artists' reflections on other musicians (contemporary and past) provide considerable insight into the American musical landscape at that time. For a number of the musicians Clark interviewed, there are not many other recorded interviews in existence, and some of the musicians she interviewed are now deceased.

Collection Historical Note

Sue Cassidy Clark was a music journalist and photographer who specialized in soul, gospel, and rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She authored the books Rock: A World Bold as Love (Cowles, 1970) and The Superstars: In Their Own Words (Music Sales, 1972), and she contributed articles and record reviews to several periodicals, including Billboard, Black Stars, Creem, Hit Parader, Rolling Stone, Rock, Soul Illustrated, and Soul Sounds.

Biographical Note

Sue Cassidy Clark, director of creative services for Command/Probe Records

Subject/Index Terms

Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
Butler, Jerry
Clark, Sue C.
Impressions (Musical Group)
Journalism
Mayfield, Curtis
Musicians, Black
Music Journalists
New York (City)
Popular music - 1981-1990
Popular music - 1991-2000

Administrative Information

Repository: Center for Black Music Research

Alternate Extent Statement: 36 boxes

Access Restrictions: Varies. See finding aid for restrictions on interviews.

Use Restrictions: Most of the collection is open for public use. Some individuals restrict access to interviews.

Physical Access Note: Includes sound discs, photographs and photograph negatives, 45 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm and cassette recordings

Acquisition Source: Clark, Sue Cassidy

Finding Aid Revision History: revised by Adam Melville, March 6, 2018.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Artists, circa 1960-1990],
[Series 2: Other Musical Topics, 1960-1999],
[Series 3: Periodical Issues, 1962-1999],
[Series 4: Printed Music, 1948-1997],
[Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1950-1966],
[Series 6: Commercial Recordings],
[All]

Series 3: Periodical Issues, 1962-1999

Box 21

Item 1: American Visions (October/November 1994)
Item 2: Columbia House Music
Item 3: Down Beat's Music 1962: The 7th Annual Yearbook
Item 4: Down Beat's Music '64: 9th Yearbook
Item 5: Down Beat (July 27, 1967)
Item 6: Hoop: An Official Magazine of the National Basketball Association, Vol. V, No. 2 (1978)
Item 7: Hoop: An Official Magazine of the National Basketball Association, Vol. V, No. 3 (1978)
Item 8: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (October 1994)
Item 9: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (November 1994)
Item 10: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (March 1995)
Item 11: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (June 1995)
Item 12: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (August 1995)
Item 13: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (February 1996)
Item 14: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (April 1996)
Item 15: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (May 1996)
Item 16: JazzTimes: America's Jazz Magazine (June 1996)
Item 17: Jazz (February 1963)
Item 18: Jazz: A Quarterly of American Music (Winter 1960)
Item 19: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (June 1993)
Item 20: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (February 1994)
Item 21: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (March 1994)
Item 22: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (April 1994)
Item 23: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (May 1994)
Item 24: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (November 1994)
Item 25: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (February 1995)
Item 26: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (March 1995)
Item 27: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (September 1995)
Item 28: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (October 1995)
Item 29: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (November 1995)
Item 30: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (December 1995)
Item 31: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (February-March 1996)
Item 32: Lee Lo's New York Jazz Newsletter (April-May 1996)
Item 33: Vanity Fair (December 1999)