Oral History of American Music

Oral History of American Music
AbbreviationOHAM
Formation1969 (1969)
Location
Official language
English
Director
Libby Van Cleve
Founder
Vivian Perlis
Parent organization
Yale University Library
Websitehttp://web.library.yale.edu/oham/about
Formerly called
Oral History, American Music

Oral History of American Music (OHAM), founded in 1969, is an oral history project and archive of audio and video recordings consisting mainly of interviews with American classical and jazz musicians. It is a special collection of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University and housed within the Sterling Memorial Library building in New Haven, Connecticut. It currently holds approximately 3,000 interviews with more than 900 subjects and is considered the definitive collection of its kind.

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