Statewide subject collections
These statewide collections connect evidence across counties without duplicating the underlying historical record. Publication depth varies with the evidence currently preserved in the project.
This record integrates Federal Music Project and later WPA Music Program material across Oklahoma while preserving city, county, ensemble, and institutional identities as separate records.
Major integrated collection
This record treats “Music War” as a documented historical press and political framing for the 1937 conflict surrounding Tulsa's collapsing federal symphony relationship and the organization of an Oklahoma City relief orchestra.
Major integrated collection
This collection covers documented Native and Indigenous musical activity within present-day Oklahoma and predecessor lands, including tribal communities, boarding and agency schools, intertribal organizations, family/professional ensembles, ceremonies, institutions, and later pub
Substantial, continuing research
This record integrates documented African American music across school, professional, community, jazz, dance, territory, federal relief, university, civic, church/gospel research paths, and segregated educational institutions.
Substantial integrated collection
This collection covers jazz, dance, stage, territory, touring, commercial, broadcast, and related professional ensemble activity, including overlapping African American, school, federal-relief, and popular-music histories.
Substantial integrated collection
This collection brings orchestras, strings, choruses, choirs, glee clubs, vocal organizations, and related educational/civic institutions into Oklahoma Band History's expanded all-music mission.
Substantial, continuing research
This collection covers country, western, western swing, cowboy, bluegrass, string-band, honky-tonk, and related commercial/community traditions where supported by evidence.
Growing collection; evidence expansion needed
This collection is intended to document Oklahoma rock, pop, garage, psychedelic, punk, new wave, alternative, indie, and related popular-music scenes, organizations, performers, venues, recordings, and communities.
Growing collection; evidence expansion needed
This collection documents places and systems through which Oklahoma music was performed, broadcast, recorded, promoted, taught, organized, and circulated: auditoriums, ballrooms, theaters, schools, clubs, radio stations, studios, record labels, newspapers, civic organizations, fe
Growing collection; evidence expansion needed
