The HistoryMakers video oral history with Morris Butch Stewart.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 46 min., 2 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Stewart, Morris, -- 1953- -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318751

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Morris Butch Stewart Morris Butch Stewart
Other authors / contributors:	Stewart, Morris, 1953- interviewee. Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 April 8. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Music producer and songwriter Morris "Butch" Stewart, Jr., was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 13, 1953. At twenty-two years old, he began singing backup vocals for Ramsey Louis, and by twenty-five had founded his own songwriting company, JoyArtMusic. The company wrote television and radio theme songs, as well as produced jingles for advertising. Stewart wrote the theme song to The Oprah Winfrey Show. Stewart also wrote music and lyrics for several artists, including Earth, Wind and Fire. He also collaborated on children's education music projects and founded his own label, Copia Records. He and his wife, Brenda Mitchell Stewart, founded the Art of Making Music Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises money for music education in underprivileged schools. Stewart's two children, have followed him into the music production business. Stewart passed away in 2017, at age 64.

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