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|| About the Collection ||
The recordings in this collection represent one man's ambitious attempt to document the extent and variety of American folksong. During the 1920s and the early 1930s, folklorist Robert Winslow Gordon took his cylinder recorder (and later, his disc machine) to the San Francisco waterfront, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Georgia coast in order to record the diverse singing traditions of the United States. He recorded nearly 1,000 cylinders, collected nearly 10,000 more song texts from the readers of his popular articles, and gathered many thousand additional song versions from old camp-meeting and revival songbooks, broadsides, folios, and hillbilly recordings. This collection documents almost thirty of these songs.
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General
- Span Dates
- 1922-1932
- Major Language(s)
- English
- Repository
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Number of Items
- 30
- Contents
- 30 sound recordings
Access/Copyright
- Copyright Info
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Preferred Citation
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress