Bill Doggett is an award winning social and cultural media historian and sound archivist honored by The Library of Congress Sound Division. Doggett's multi faceted background is ideal for Archives,Libraries and Performing Arts organizations.

1. BILL DOGGETT
4096 Piedmont Avenue#262 Oakland, CA. 94611
510-934-1011 ▪ bdoggett55@gmail.com
Summary: Bill Doggett is an accomplished multi faceted historian, scholarly lecturer, author,
archivist, exhibitions curator and curator of unique multi media Arts and History events to create
dialogue inter generationally within and across diverse communities.
As an historian and archivist specialized in African American history contextualized through historical
media, Doggett’s blended skill sets as an historian, archivist and lecturer with demonstrated
leadership and community relations expertise are hewn from twenty plus years of interface with
Performing Arts and Media preservation organizations. Doggett has also been a Board of Director and
Advisory Committee member of LA Opera, Friends of Negro Spirituals, Theatre Bay Area
Recent Accomplishments:
 Commissioned by The Library of Congress, Sound Division 2014-16 to create and produce for The
National Jukebox, the 2017 launch feature: #BlackVoicesMatter: Race, Music and Message at The
Dawn of Recorded Sound/Film. In two parts, The Library of Congress filmed his multi media
presentation in September 2015 at the Culpepper campus of the Library of Congress showcasing
1900-1925 recordings from his sound archive, related silent film and musical artifacts. The three
hours filmed presentation is being edited and added to the 40,000 word feature article which was
completed in December 2015
 Strategic marketing and Composer Relations 2012-15: Contemporary African American composers,
Anthony Davis, Richard Thompson and Roy Jennings. Project manager with focused strategy,
marketing, publicity and community relations. My role fostered a direct interface with artistic
administrators, conductors, singers, and Arts Festival managers to place and market new music
 Featured author published in the August 2015 Journal of The San Francisco Museum and Historical
Society, The Argonaut. A substantive sixteen page feature showcasing rare artifacts from Doggett’s
performing arts Archive explored the untold history of The African American concert and opera
singer and the critical relationship of the San Francisco Bay Area to their careers from 1880-2000.
The Argonaut is available on amazon.com
 Featured Fall 2015 event for The International Center for American Music website- the internet film
debut of Doggett’s educational documentary short using historical and new settings of Negro
Spirituals, slavery and Civil War history as a dialogue and intergenerational bridge: Emanicipation
Proclamation: The Journey To Freedom: The Civil War at 150 years.
 Advisor 2015: Carnegie Hall 125 Commissioning Project regarding creating a greater role for
contemporary African American composers in the multiple year commissioning project framework.
Engaged key Carnegie Hall administrators who responded positively with results that would not have
happened without my outreach. That dialogue has continued during 2016 . My engagement was
based on my creation of the well received Web based Contemporary Black Composers Resource
portal, Contemporary Black Composers: New Voices, New Music
www.billdoggettproductions.com/Black-Composers.html
 Featured consultant strategist, marketer, publicist, ghost writer for Fall 2014 LA Opera’s innovative
Berlin Komische Opera Barrie Kosky production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Engaged in start to
finish national media pitch, media placement and marketing of an opera landmark event, the
premiere of 3 African American Countertenors for the first time on a stage of a leading American
opera house.

2.  Featured community engagement exhibitor in San Francisco Bay Area Museum and Historical
Society outreach event Spring 2013-2015: The San Francisco History Expo: a San Francisco Bay
Area wide showcase of 100+ historical organizations at the pre 1906 Earthquake, Old Mint building.
The annual weekend event captured 3500+ Bay area wide visitors
 Strategic marketing consultant of prize winning 2014 new release biography: Roland Hayes:The
Legacy of An American Tenor, by Christopher Brooks and Robert Sims. Consultant in release
stage phase securing important national radio interview on West Coast leading Classical Music radio
station, Classical KUSC-FM
 Curator and Producer: The March on Washington 50th
Anniversary: A Bay Area Celebration August
2013 Doggett curated and produced a one day multi tiered Sympsium to honor the 50th
anniversary
of The March on Washington. Doggett engaged a wide range of Bay Area interfaith clergy, Civil
Rights veterans, community activists, youth leadership, community sponsors with financial
assistance from US Bank and a social media Indiegogo campaign. The event was co sponsored by
and held at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California
 The Arts and Community Relations: The Afro Solo Theater Company 2011-12, Doggett was
Community Outreach and Legislative Officials liaison for the annual AfroSolo Arts Festival, San
Francisco. Doggett advised and booked talent for The 2012-13 San Francisco City Hall annual Black
History Month event. Winter 2012, project managed The Jacqueline Hairston Chorale 2012
Carnegie Hall Kickstarter campaign to assist Negro Spirituals composer/conductor, Jacqueline
Hairston’s 300 person Chorale to perform at Carnegie Hall, Sphinx Music: Experience
Bill Doggett Productions
A California based start up focused in (1) Diversity Arts advocacy, new business
development and strategic marketing consulting for composers, musicians and
Performing Arts organizations (2) marketing and development of multi media lectures that
create intergenerational bridges using focused areas of American history, The Arts and
rare artifacts from the sound and print archive of the Bill Doggett archive (3) marketing
and creation of historical exhibitions. www.billdoggettproductions.com
Curated exhibitions include: The Gershwins’ Porgy&Bess: San Franciscso Opera,The
Underground Railroad: Songs of Freedom and Hope and The African American Concert
Singer in San Francisco sponsored and showcased by The Main San Francisco Public
Library
Lectures include: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Indiana University, Pittsburgh
University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for The Association for Recorded
Sound Collections, University of Denver, University of California, Irvine and Laney
College,Oakland
Bill Doggett Books and Music 1999-2016
Independent Book and Music seller
Experienced Antiquarian Book Show and Mid Century Collectibles exhibitor with
performing arts and history focus
Bill Doggett Photography 1985-2005
Commercial Photographer, Los Angeles
Client relationships included Wells Fargo, Pacific Bell/SBC, Kaiser Permanente, Los
Angeles Visitor & Convention Bureau, The City of West Hollywood, Small Business
Administration, Los Angeles LDC, The Urban Land Institute, California Business
Roundtable, The Greenlining Institute, Radio stations, KBIG-FM and KISS-FM, Television
station: KCOP, Channel 13, B.E.T. and Bon Appétit Magazine

3. Community Engagement,Leadership Projects
Association For Recorded Sound Collections: Diversity Committee Chair 2014
Friends of Negro Spirituals: Advisory Board 2011-13
Theatre Bay Area: Advisory Board 2009-10
San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Advisory Board Committee 2008-10
San Francisco Black Business Professionals Network, Grant Recipient 2008
Magnet Clinic Black Men’s Social Mixers Project, Castro District, Founder 2007
Los Angeles Opera: Founding Board of Director, AALAO 1994-99
Awards and Recognitions
2013: The City of Berkeley: Proclamation for City of Berkeley assisted March on
Washington Symposium at Pacific School of Religion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Martin Luther King Spirit Awards, Keynote Speaker-Gerald Ford Library
2012: SF Bay Area Friends of Negro Spirituals: Recipient: Heritage Keepers Award for
Exhibitions curation and community education
2007:San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for Leadership of Castro District, Black Men’s
Community Mixers
2007 Venture Seed Fund grant recipient for Community based leadership pilot. Project
received proclamation from California State Senator, Mark Leno
Professional memberships
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections
The International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archvies
The International Center for American Music
The African American Art Song Alliance
Education
University of California Los Angeles, Cum Laude Bachelor of Arts Political Science