Allentown Band Oral History Collection

Allentown Band Oral History Collection

Allentown Band

The Allentown Band and Muhlenberg College, longtime Lehigh Valley institutions and partners, embarked on a collaboration to gather members’ oral histories. The partners creating this collection included members of the Band, students, and faculty in an integrative learning course involving archival science and documentary fieldwork. The course resulted in an ongoing digital scholarship project site.

The collection consists of oral histories that speak to the traditions and treasured memories of the Allentown Band. The oral histories provide narratives that speak to the evolution of the Band in the past 50 years. Starting with the tradition of playing for community and church groups, the Band is now also playing at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and at various European venues. A more recent tradition, noted in the oral histories, involves outreach to musically talented Lehigh Valley youth.

Allentown Band

Trexler Library, Muhlenberg College

2018

Dan Burg '20; Riley Cassidy '19; Haley Hnatuk '20; Emily Robinson '19; Anthony Dalton; Susan Falciani Maldonado; Dr. Kate Ranieri

Copyright for these oral history recordings is held by the interview subject. They are made available with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). The public can access and share the interview for educational, research, and other noncommercial purposes as long as they identify the original source.

This oral history project was supported by a grant from the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium (LVEHC).

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