Artist and Influence - Volume X (1991)

James V. Hatch / Leo Hamalian (Editors). 
Artist and Influence: Volume X.

New York:  Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc, 1991.
Softcover. 
230 pages. 

Very good. 
Minor edge wear. 

Interviews with Elizabeth Catlett, Elvera "Baby Sanchez" Davis, James L. de Jongh, Maxwell Glanville, Edna Mae and Vivian Harris, Karen Offitzer, Helen Clark + Buck Clayton + Norma Miller + Johnny Williams, Francisco Mora, Nobuko "Cobi" Narita (Universal Jazz Coalition), Dorothy Porter (Howard University), Quynh Nguyen, John Rhoden, Marvin + Morgan Smith, Eleanor Traylor, Delia Reyes, Jeff D. Marion and Michael S. Weaver, and Hartwell Yeargans. 

Poetry by Owen V. Dodson, Fuyu No Yo, Judé Glover, James V. Hatch, Glenngo Allen King, Barbara Lekatsas, Suzanne Noguere, Victoria Sullivan, and Marlene Tartaglione.

Artist and Influence is an annual journal published by the Hatch-Billops Collection in New York. Among other materials, Hatch-Billops houses an archival collection of oral histories of African American and some Asian and Hispanic artists from all fields of the performing, graphic, and spatial arts.

Interviews with Black and Asian filmmakers, actors, musicians, sculptors, photographers, animators, choreographers, singers, and painters, provide new information about the role of minority groups in the development of the American arts. Many of the figures whose words are transcribed were elderly when they were interviewed. Their perceptions shed new light on movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the role of Black musicians during the Depression, or the resistance of Hollywood filmmakers during the 1930s and 40s to using Black actors and actresses.