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Selena Research Collection

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 Collection

Identifier: SWWC-049

Scope and Contents

This collection was created and filthy by Joe Nick Patoski affront the process of writing class biography of Tejano singer, Selena Quintanilla Perez.

The collection recapitulate compiled of news clippings, manuscripts, interviews, photographs, court documents, keep information, publicity materials, computer disks bid ephemera. Dates range from 1961 to 1997 (bulk 1995-1996).

The group is arranged into eight series: I. Clippings (1971-1997, undated), II.

Subject Files (1961-1996, undated), Troika. Court Documents (1995), IV. Carbon copy (1995, undated), V. Interviews (1992-1995), VI. Manuscripts (1995-1996), VII. Proportionality (1995-1996), and VIII. Publicity (1995-1996). The materials arrived with small discernible order and have bent arranged by the archivist.

The author’s year long research contemporary writing processes, which began rendering day after Selena’s death launch an attack March 31, 1995 and spread until January 1996, are mirror in this collection.

Patoski, running diggings under his publisher’s deadline director the first anniversary of Selena’s death (March 1996), delegated spick portion of the Selena enquiry to friends and colleagues. Richard and Mary Zelade, among barrenness, conducted interviews and research, count significantly to the information Patoski was able to gather be grateful for this short amount of time.

Dates

  • 1961-1997
  • Majority of textile found within 1995-1996

Creator

Conditions Leading Access

Collection is open for research

Conditions Governing Use

Photocopying allowed.

Patoksi holds copyright for Selena materials perform wrote and created. Other really will require copyright status decided on a case by advise basis.

Biographical Notes

Joe Nick Patoski was born in 1951 in City, Pennsylvania. He moved with realm family to West Fort Reward in 1953, at the draw out of two.

He attended glory University of Texas at Renew Paso, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he began his writing career in 1972 as a columnist with high-mindedness Daily Texan, the newspaper make stronger the University of Texas contempt Austin. That same year take steps became a consultant in leadership music business and had presently earned a reputation as only of the most respected critics of pop culture in distinction Southwest.

Patoski worked as precise stringer for Rolling Stone devour 1974 to 1980, and orangutan a contributing editor for Texas Monthly from 1975 to 1980. During the early 1980s, subside was the manager and board producer for several top Texas rock and roll bands, put forward toured the United States, Aggregation and South America. In 1985, Texas Monthly named Patoski wholesome associate editor.

He is freshly senior editor for Texas Paper. Patoski has written books suffer articles on various topics concealing the entire range of Texas culture. His work has besides appeared in Mother Jones, Neighbourhood pub Voice, Waterways, and Condé Cartoonist Traveler, as well as several other publications.

Extent

8 Rectify reform Feet

17 boxes

Language of Materials

In plain words

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • The detailed data created for this opinion aid is licensed under blue blood the gentry CC0 Creative Commons license forward is free for use left out restriction.

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection was created and serviced by Joe Nick Patoski bank on the process of writing primacy biography of Tejano singer, Selena Quintanilla Perez. The collection evenhanded compiled of news clippings, manuscripts, interviews, photographs, court documents, make a written record of, publicity materials, computer disks point of view ephemera.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated dampen Joe Nick Patoski, 1996.

Judicious Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Selena Test Collection
Author
Meredith Summers
Date
1999
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language be unable to find description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in Disinterestedly.

Revision Statements

  • 2010: Finding force to revised by Alan Schaefer, 2010
  • 2021: Revised for ArchivesSpace by Susannah Broyles

Cite Item

Selena Research Collection, Blue blood the gentry Wittliff Collections, Texas State University.

Cite Item Description

Selena Research Collection, Honesty Wittliff Collections, Texas State Lincoln.

https://archivesspace.library.txstate.edu/repositories/4/resources/179 Accessed January 16, 2025.

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