Episode 92 -- Burgin Mathews on 2025 AHA Jakeman Award and Southern Music Research Center

About this episode

Burgin Mathews discusses the Southern Music Research Center and his various projects, including the Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award.

Air Date: February 2, 2026 Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bdds6mak Burgin Matthews, founder and director of the Southern Music Research Center Digital Archives, talks about the Center, which received the Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award, Small Project category, from the Alabama Historical Association in April 2025. He also chats about his other projects: The Lady Muleskinner Press, his website burginmathews.com, The Lost Child Radio Program, and his two books, Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man and Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America. Links mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/digital-history-award Southern Music Research Center: https://www.southernmusicresearch.org/ Burgin Mathews website: https://burginmathews.com/ Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817359591/doc/ Dr. Frank Adams (Doc Adams): https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Frank_Adams Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469676883/magic-city/ The Lost Child…

People in this episode

Host: Marty Olliff

Guest: Burgin Mathews

Topics covered

• Southern Music Research Center
• Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award
• Birmingham Jazz

Keywords

• Alabama Historical Association
• digital archives
• music history
• Birmingham

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Lady Muleskinner Press, Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man, Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America, The Lost Child Radio Program

Books & works: AHA Jakeman Award, the Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award, The Lost Child Radio Program, Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man and Magic City, Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man, The Lost Child Radio Show

Places: Alabama

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