Music -- Texas

Series Description From the Series:

The promotional material series is predominately made up of photographic and printed material sent to Patoski from music, television and film production companies, record companies, and talent agencies. Other promotional materials in this series include catalogs, newsletters, festival advertisements, press releases and ephemera all relating to the music industry.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Archival materials received from James Broadway, mariachi musician and student of Benjamin Valdez. Materials date from the late 1930s-2021 and are comprised primarily of manuscript copies and research materials for a memoir of Benjamin Valdez, founding member of the seminal music group Los Conquistadores (active late 1930s-1970s) with Jose Morante and Enrique Rodriguez. Materials include handwritten stories, song lyrics, music notation, artifacts, ephemera, photographs of notable...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Archival materials received from James Broadway, mariachi musician and student of Benjamin Valdez. Materials date from the late 1930s-2021 and are comprised primarily of manuscript copies and research materials for a memoir of Benjamin Valdez, founding member of the seminal music group Los Conquistadores (active late 1930s-1970s) with Jose Morante and Enrique Rodriguez. Materials include handwritten stories, song lyrics, music notation, artifacts, ephemera, photographs of notable...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Archival materials received from James Broadway, mariachi musician and student of Benjamin Valdez. Materials date from the late 1930s-2021 and are comprised primarily of manuscript copies and research materials for a memoir of Benjamin Valdez, founding member of the seminal music group Los Conquistadores (active late 1930s-1970s) with Jose Morante and Enrique Rodriguez. Materials include handwritten stories, song lyrics, music notation, artifacts, ephemera, photographs of notable...

Series Description From the Series:

The promotional material series is predominately made up of photographic and printed material sent to Patoski from music, television and film production companies, record companies, and talent agencies. Other promotional materials in this series include catalogs, newsletters, festival advertisements, press releases and ephemera all relating to the music industry.

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The photographs in this series are more personal in nature than those in previous series. Many images of Patoski throughout his life are contained in this series.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Variety of material including CDs, LPs, t-shirt and caps, posters, magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings, drafts and manuscripts of work, photos, correspondence, music announcements and musician press kits, notes and notebooks, maps, brochures and other artifacts. Majority of material was not in files or labeled; file titles are in quotation marks when present.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Variety of material including CDs, LPs, t-shirt and caps, posters, magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings, drafts and manuscripts of work, photos, correspondence, music announcements and musician press kits, notes and notebooks, maps, brochures and other artifacts. Majority of material was not in files or labeled; file titles are in quotation marks when present.

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Newspaper articles, SXSW and ACL programs, and drafts for the John T. Davis archive. This collection includes a wide expanse of Davis’s articles from 1980-2010, including articles from Davis’s music review column in the Austin-American Statesman. This collection also contains official SXSW and ACL music and program guides, as well as drafts of Davis’s comprehensive ACL book, Austin City Limits: 25 Years of Music.

Series Description From the Series: Series X: Publications, 1981-2016, undated Boxes 217-222Arranged alphabetically by title, and then chronologically. Unless noted, all are full issues. Publications with longer runs (including Latin Connection, Street Talk, Que Onda, Nuestra Musica, and TGN have been added to the Wittliff’s book collection to be...

Series Description From the Series: Series X: Publications, 1981-2016, undated Boxes 217-222Arranged alphabetically by title, and then chronologically. Unless noted, all are full issues. Publications with longer runs (including Latin Connection, Street Talk, Que Onda, Nuestra Musica, and TGN have been added to the Wittliff’s book collection to be...

Series Description From the Series: Series X: Publications, 1981-2016, undated Boxes 217-222Arranged alphabetically by title, and then chronologically. Unless noted, all are full issues. Publications with longer runs (including Latin Connection, Street Talk, Que Onda, Nuestra Musica, and TGN have been added to the Wittliff’s book collection to be...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Archival materials received from James Broadway, mariachi musician and student of Benjamin Valdez. Materials date from the late 1930s-2021 and are comprised primarily of manuscript copies and research materials for a memoir of Benjamin Valdez, founding member of the seminal music group Los Conquistadores (active late 1930s-1970s) with Jose Morante and Enrique Rodriguez. Materials include handwritten stories, song lyrics, music notation, artifacts, ephemera, photographs of notable...

Series Description From the Series: Again, this series is divided into Produced and Unproduced material.The sub-series of produced works is arranged by production date. The bulk of the sub-series consists of Pancho Villa’s Wedding Day, which, after Shrake turned it from a film script into a play script, underwent more incarnations, including as a musical. Numerous, corrected drafts are included, from 1977 to 1994, when he stopped revising it. The play was staged in 1984. The...

Series Description From the Series: Again, this series is divided into Produced and Unproduced material.The sub-series of produced works is arranged by production date. The bulk of the sub-series consists of Pancho Villa’s Wedding Day, which, after Shrake turned it from a film script into a play script, underwent more incarnations, including as a musical. Numerous, corrected drafts are included, from 1977 to 1994, when he stopped revising it. The play was staged in 1984. The...

Series Description From the Series: Again, this series is divided into Produced and Unproduced material.The sub-series of produced works is arranged by production date. The bulk of the sub-series consists of Pancho Villa’s Wedding Day, which, after Shrake turned it from a film script into a play script, underwent more incarnations, including as a musical. Numerous, corrected drafts are included, from 1977 to 1994, when he stopped revising it. The play was staged in 1984. The...

Series Description From the Series: Again, this series is divided into Produced and Unproduced material.The sub-series of produced works is arranged by production date. The bulk of the sub-series consists of Pancho Villa’s Wedding Day, which, after Shrake turned it from a film script into a play script, underwent more incarnations, including as a musical. Numerous, corrected drafts are included, from 1977 to 1994, when he stopped revising it. The play was staged in 1984. The...

Series Description From the Series: Series I: Artists Files, 1922-2019, undated Boxes 1-155 Artist Files comprise the bulk of the collection. The files are separated into Male Artist Files and Female Artist Files to maintain Hernández’s original order. Both series are then arranged alphabetically by artist last name or band name. Although the series is titled Artists Files, there are also entrepreneurs, community leaders, promoters, street performers, and many others represented.The material found in...

Series Description From the Series: The Patoski Files, maintained by Joe Nick Patoski, are divided into the same subseries as the Crawford Files: Research Materials, and Book Production Materials. The cataloger has maintained as much of Patoski's original order as possible for this material, but imposed some additional degree of order in the interest of accessibility. The Research Materials, 1977-1993, include numerous interview transcripts and audiotapes, published books on the music industry with Patoski's notes. Notable...

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Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.