Hugo Keesing collection on music and the Vietnam War
The Keesing collection on music and the Vietnam War in the UMD Performing Arts Library is one of several collections created by Hugo Keesing, a popular music scholar and former professor at the University of Maryland. This collection contains realia, photographs, books, magazines, clippings, sheet music, and thousands of audio recordings in a variety of formats such as LPs, 45s, cassette tapes, and compact discs. All items were collected by Keesing and his brothers both during the
war (1955-1975) and in its aftermath. It also houses Dr. Keesing’s personal research materials and correspondences pertaining to his compilation of a comprehensive Vietnam War song discography and his published CD box set, …Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008.
