Richard Hammel Jackson (born February 15, 1936), is an American musicologist and music librarian.
While a student, he worked for the Maxwell Music Library at Newcomb College, Tulane University from 1959 to 1962.
[1] From 1965 to 1991 Jackson served as the head of the Americana Collection in the music division of the New York Public Library.
He was the author of the anthology Popular Songs of 19th-Century America (1976), and co-edited The Little Book of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1976).
His other published works included multiple journal articles and two bibliographies of American music (1973, 1977).