Stearns, Marshall Winslow

Abstract: Marshall Stearns papers, artifacts, and audio recordings details the life of the founder of the Institute of Jazz Studies whose writings, programs, and scholarship amount to nothing less than the building blocks of jazz studies as they emerged from the 1930s until Stearns's death in 1966, at which point he had donated his singular collection to Rutgers University. Included in the collection are his writings for jazz publications and leading national and international magazines, and his two...