José Vigo audio collection

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unitid

{"value"=>"186621", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"b22242322", "type"=>"local_b"}

{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Vigo 1989-11", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1949-1984", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1949/1984"}

{"value"=>"1981-1984", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1981/1984"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"José Vigo audio collection"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"17 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"José Angel Vigo taught Afro-American studies, anthropology, and Puerto Rican history and culture at Yale, Wes­leyan, and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ties. The José Vigo audio collection consists of seventeen audio recordings related to Vigo's career in the field of sociolinguistics."}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

{"value"=>"Anglophone Creoles, Haitian Creole, Patois, and Spanish."}

origination

{"value"=>"Vigo, José A., 1950-1987", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>José Angel Vigo taught Afro-American studies, anthropology, and Puerto Rican history and culture at Yale, Wes­leyan, and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ties. Born in Puerto Rico, Vigo migrated to New York as a teenager. He graduated from Hunter College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture Studies. In 1980, he was awarded a Masters in Philosophy degree from Yale University. From 1982 through 1983, Vigo con­ducted field­work in Samaná, Dominican Republic, research­ing the Cre­ole lan­guage and trav­el­ing fre­quently between the Domini­can Repub­lic and his hometown in Puerto Rico. At the time of his death in 1987 due to an AIDS-related illness, he was working towards his Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University. Although it was never completed, his dissertation, \"Language Maintenance and Ethnicity: A Sociolinguistic Study of Samaná, Dominican Republic\" was meant to exam­ine the processes of lan­guage shift among the descen­dants of a nineteenth-century colony of American freed slaves. The audio recordings in this collection are likely research materials collected by Vigo.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of seventeen audio recordings. They are arranged chronologically. Since the collection's original formats are audio cassettes, many of the items contain two or more parts, one for each side of the cassette. The titles are derived from the content of the recordings and labels on the original formats. They include music, folktales, language courses, interviews, and lectures on topics of sociolinguistics in the Caribbean collected by Vigo, who doesn't appear on any of the recordings. Unless otherwise indicated, the items are in English.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Mercedes Vigo, February 1989.</p>"}

separatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the José Vigo papers, Sc MG 374.</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for photographs.</p>"}

processinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Liavon Yurevich</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

{"value"=>"<p><em> Central American English</em> edited by John Holm, with contributions by Geneviève Escure ... [et al.]., JFE 83-4561.</p>"}

sponsor

{"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

{"value"=>"Item titles, scope and content notes, and extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Ornella U. Baganizi.", "date"=>"2026-04-23"}

date_start

1949

keydate

1949

date_end

1984

date_inclusive_start

1949

date_inclusive_end

1984

date_bulk_start

1981

date_bulk_end

1984

prefercite

{"value"=>"José Vigo audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}

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1. Animal tales told in the Gullah dialect by Albert H. Stoddard of Savannah, Georgia
2. Lecture: Bilingualism, Albert Valdman [2/1]
3. Talk: Haitian Immigration to the US, Susan Buchannan
4. Bay Odyans [2/1]
5. Talk: Wilbert Eloi
6. Talk: Michaelle Auguste
7. Talk: Léon-François Hoffmann [2/1]
8. Interview with Ferolina N. Vanderhorst
9. Patois lesson
10. Interview with Dora Vanderhorst
11. Afro-Dominican Music from San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic
12. Central American English edited by John A. Holm
13. Basic Course in Haitian Creole by Albert Valdman [3/1]