- unitid
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{"value"=>"186379", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"SC MIRS Dixon 1993-11", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b22267181", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1973-1990", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1973/1990"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Melvin Dixon audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Melvin Dixon was an American scholar, novelist, and poet. Dixon's scholarship, including translations, focused on French speaking writers such as Léopold Sédar Senghor, Geneviève Fabre, and Jacques Roumain. The collection consists of four audio recordings, one in which he recites his own poetry."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Multiple languages"}
{"value"=>"English and French."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Dixon, Melvin, 1950-1992", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Melvin Dixon was an American scholar, novelist, and poet. Dixon's scholarship, including translations, focused on French-speaking writers such as Léopold Sédar Senghor, Geneviève Fabre, and Jacques Roumain.</p> <p>Born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1950, Dixon graduated from Wesleyan University in 1971 with a degree in American studies. He completed graduate studies at Boston University, earning an MA in 1973, and a PhD in 1975. He taught English literature at Wesleyan University (1976-1980), and literature at Queens College (1980-1992). Dixon received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984, and also taught at the City University of New York, Fordham University, Columbia University, and Williams College.</p> <p>Dixon was influenced by James Baldwin, and wrote extensively about the complexities of being a gay Black man. His poetry portrayed both his interior explorations and world travels. Seeking his literary heritage, he traveled to the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. In addition to his poetry, Dixon wrote about and published translations of several French-speaking writers, including <span class=\"title\">The Collected Poetry by Léopold Sédar Senghor</span> (1991).</p> <p>One year after the death of his partner Richard Horovitz, Dixon died of AIDS-related complications in 1992.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Melvin Dixon audio collection consists of four audio recordings, arranged chronologically. They include a self-recording of Dixon reading his poetry. In two audio recordings, he is interviewed by Soumanou Salifu. He discusses his poetry, and English literary translations. In another, Dixon interviews Léopold Sédar Senghor. All interviews are in French.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Melvin Dixon Estate, 1993.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Melvin Dixon paper, 1962-1992, Sc MG 468.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Christopher Arena</span> and <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">The collected poetry / by Léopold Sédar Senghor ; translated and with an introduction by Melvin Dixon</span>, Sc D 91-1218.</p> <p><span class=\"title\">Change of territory : poems / by Melvin Dixon</span>, Sc D 98-577.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Item scope and content notes and AMI identifiers updated for clarity by Ornella U. Baganizi.", "date"=>"2024-04-12"}
- date_start
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1973
- keydate
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1973
- date_end
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1990
- date_inclusive_start
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1973
- date_inclusive_end
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1990
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Melvin Dixon audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}