Marc Ribot Papers
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Marc Ribot is an American guitarist and composer associated with avant-garde music, free jazz, no wave, rock, and Cuban musical styles. In addition to his original compositions, he has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborated with artists including Tom Waits, John Zorn, The Lounge Lizards, and Elvis Costello. This collection consists of materials created and collected by Ribot between 1975 and 2005 documenting his musical career and include original scores and charts of Ribot's compositions, original writings, posters and flyers for performances, press kits, address books, tour diaries, music industry publications featuring Ribot, and photographs, including those from press kits, live performances, and touring. In addition to materials strictly documenting Ribot's musical career, this collection includes materials documenting his political interests and activities, with particular focus on squatting and housing issues. These materials provide documentation on Ribot's musical career, compositional processes, and the larger context of the Radical Jewish Culture movement of the early 1990s in New York that combined elements of free jazz, Klezmer improvisation, blues, and punk music.
Biographical Note
Marc Ribot (1954- ) is an American guitarist and composer associated with avant-garde music, free jazz, no wave, rock, and Cuban musical styles. In addition to his original compositions, he has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborated with artists including Tom Waits, John Zorn, The Lounge Lizards, and Elvis Costello. He has been a part of multiple ensembles, including Ceramic Dog, Dreamers, and the Marc Ribot Trio. Ribot was a notable figure in the 1990s New York avant-garde movement of Jewish musicians referred to as Radical Jewish Culture.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials created and collected by Marc Ribot between 1975 and 2018 documenting his musical career as a guitarist and composer. Materials in this collection include original scores and charts of Ribot's compositions, original writings, posters and flyers for performances, press kits, address books, tour diaries, music industry publications featuring Ribot, newspaper clippings, digitized audio and video recordings of performances, an inscribed plywood box signed by Rick Kelly, and photographs, including those from press kits, live performances, and touring. In addition to materials strictly documenting Ribot's musical career, this collection includes materials documenting his political interests and activities, with particular focus on squatting and housing issues. These materials provide documentation on Ribot's musical career, compositional processes, and the larger context of the Radical Jewish Culture movement of the early 1990s in New York that combined elements of free jazz, Klezmer improvisation, blues, and punk music. His involvement in the Radical Jewish Culture movement culminated in his inclusion as a featured artist in a Radical Jewish Culture Exhibition in Paris, France in 2010.
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Conditions Governing Access
Email correspondence and music scores/charts composed by John Zorn are closed to researchers until after the donor's death.
All materials, with the exception of the archived websites, are not available until after processing.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by Marc Ribot was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Marc Ribot Papers; MSS 529; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Marc Ribot Papers; MSS 529; Wayback URL; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Marc Ribot in February 2018; the accession number associated with this gift is 2018.027. Accretion donated by Marc Ribot in March 2018; the accession number associated with this gift is 2018.066. In November 2019 Ribot donated an accretion of digitized recordings of performances (including access cds/dvds); the accession number associated with this gift is 2020.001. In February 2020, Ribot donated an accretion; the accession number associated with this gift is 2020.022.
http://marcribot.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/marcribot/ were selected by curators and captured through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. No accessioning information was recorded for these websites. In February 2023, https://marcribot.bandcamp.com/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.021. In February 2024, https://www.youtube.com/@marcribotmusic/videos was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2024.015.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were rehousing in archival boxes and folders, with loose materials foldered maintaining original order. Materials were described on the collection-level, but no other arrangement, description, or physical interventions have taken place. Replaced folders were labeled with original folder titles. Digitized recordings and their access copies were identified and inventoried but have not yet been forensically imaged, analyzed, or described.
Archived websites were added to the container list in 2022 and 2024.
