- Collection:
- Laurraine Goreau Interviews and Recordings
- Title:
- LG080 Interviews: Della Reese; Unknown interviewee
- Creator:
- Goreau, Laurraine
Reese, Della - Date of Original:
- 1973-07-29
- Subject:
- Church music
Revivals - People:
- Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972
Reese, Della - Location:
- United States, Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit, 42.33143, -83.04575
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Side 1: Interview with Della Reese in Miami, Florida on 1973-07-29, conducted by telephone. Abstract for Reese: [00:00–09:14] Della Reese, in a July 1973 interview conducted via phone while in Miami, recalls how she first met Mahalia Jackson, when she came to (Reese's) church one Sunday in Detroit. At this first meeting, Reese was 13 years old and singing in the church's youth choir – 00:47. She discusses her being a teenaged, singing member of three of Jackson's summer tours of religious revivals in the South – 02:13. She specifies how Jackson influenced her methods of communication, as opposed to her singing style – 04:21. Interview with unknown interviewee begins at 09:15.
This recording was digitized in 2020 as part of a Recordings at Risk grant funded project administered by CLIR, "Tell the real story of me": Mahalia Jackson and Black Gospel Quartets in the South.
For further information, please contact Tulane University Special Collections at specialcollections@tulane.edu. - Metadata URL:
- https://tulane.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/01TUL_INST:Tulane/12436713660006326
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to portions of this collection has been transferred to Tulane University Special Collections. Tulane University can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or owner’s heir for permission to publish where Tulane University Special Collections does not hold the copyright. For permission to publish collections material to which TUSC holds intellectual property rights, please contact Research Services at specialcollections@tulane.edu.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- LG080 Interviews: Della Reese; Unknown interviewee, Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059, Tulane University Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
- Extent:
- 17 min., 21 sec.
- Original Collection:
- Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University Special Collections
Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059 - Contributing Institution:
- Tulane University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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