{"value"=>"<p>These files contain full texts, notes, or programs. They include lectures and syllabi for the jazz history courses Avakian taught at New York University with Sterling Brown (box 16, folders 1-4); lectures on Duke Ellington (1995-2004); a speech Avakian delivered at the Polar Music Prize award ceremony for Keith Jarrett (2003); an incomplete draft of a speech entitled \"How I Became A Record Producer\" which includes a detailed account of the Avakian family's immigration to the United States and the start of the Avakian Brothers rug business (box 16, folder 19); and speeches on Louis Armstrong (2000, 2008).</p>"}