Background

Bakish, David Joseph was born on May 15, 1937 in New York City.

Education

Bachelor in English, Bucknell University, 1959. Master of Arts in English, Bucknell University, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University Delaware, 1971.

Career

Graduate assistant in English University Delaware, 1966-1968. Assistant professor English Trenton (New Jersey) State College, 1968-1971. Assistant professor English and humanities Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, New York City, 1971-1979, associate professor English and humanities, 1979-1986, professor English and humanities, since 1986.

Member community advisory board Jazz Worker Video Project, Muse Community Museum of Brooklyn, 1985-1986. Lecturer in field; member doctoral juries University Massachusetts, Amherst, University Paris.

Works

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• book

  • Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography

    (From his humble beginnings as a Coney Island piano player...)

  • Afro-American Fiction, 1853-1976: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Information Guide Library. American Literature, English Literature, and World)

    (Book by Edward Margolies, David Bakish)

  • Jimmy Durante. His Show Business Career with an Annotated Filmography and Discography. 1995. Cloth. Inscribed by David Bakish to David Jasen.
  • Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, With a Annotated Filmography and Discography by David Bakish (2007) Paperback
  • Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography by Bakish, David (1994) Hardcover
  • Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography Hardcover - December 1, 1994
  • [(Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography)] [Author: David Bakish] published on (March, 2007)
  • Afro-American Fiction, 1853-1976: A Guide to Information Sources Volume 25 of American Literature, Etc.

• Other Work

  • Author: Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, 1994. (with Edward Margolies) Afro-American Fiction, 1853-1976, Richard Wright, 1973, paperback edition, 1984. Contributor articles to professional journals.Organizer, moderator film series The Family in America, 1979.

Membership

Member Professional Staff Congress, Record Research Associates, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, International Association Jazz Record Collectors, Phi Sigma Tau.

Interests

• Collecting records, sheet music and paper ephemera about early twentieth century american popular culture, tennis.

Connections

Married Linda Kaplan.

Spouse:

Linda Kaplan.