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Collections are listed alphabetically by the primary name in the
collection title.
Collections A-D
A
Title: Jane Day Abb / Maryland Legends
Description: Legends, belief tales, ghost stories, etc., recorded
at home of Henry Fuller, Shady Spring,
Maryland, November 1969, by Jane Day Abb. Originals held by University
of Maryland
Folklore Archive.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17606
Title: Charles S. Adams / New England Recordings
Description: Folklore, folksongs, and fiddle tunes from New Hampshire,
Vermont and Massachusetts.
Recorded 1961 by Charles S. Adams.
Inclusive Years: 1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14602-14603
Title: Hawley Ades / Dictionary of American Folk Song Themes
Description: Thematic (tune) index to American folk songs. Date unknown.
AFC Number: AFC 1984/027
AFS Number: N/A
Title: David Adler Cultural Center / "In the Tradition" Concert
Series
Description: Eleven videocassettes
of interviews and concert footage from the "In the Tradition"concert
series featuring eleven programs produced by the David Adler Cultural Center
with support
from the National Endowment for the Arts, Libertyville Rotary Club, and
the Illinois Arts
Council. The performances showcase various traditions including blues,
Irish,
Scandinavian, and Middle Eastern songs, as well as fiddling and ballads
from Missouri and
Indiana. Recorded in Libertyville, Illinois at the Libertyville High
School Studio Theater,
1989. The collection includes eighteen pages of concert fliers and descriptions
of each
performer and performance. Some performers featured on separate video programs
performed together in concerts.
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1990/015
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ilze Akerbergs / Turku Pupa (Latvian) Cassette Collection
Description: A dubbed copy of a published album by the Latvian folksong
group Vilcejas, singing
traditional songs for work and dance as well as Easter and childrens' songs.
Six sheets of
lyrics, one page of brief song-explanations in English, a photocopied insert
identifying the
performers and a handwritten insert with the same are included in the collection.
Inclusive Years: 1897
AFC Number: AFC 1995/019
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Alamanac Singers / Cowboy Yodels
Description: Two 10-inch and four 12-inch discs of songs sung by the
Almanac Singers, Alan and John
A. Lomax, and Earl Robinson. Recorded in New York City, January 1942. The
collection
includes a one-page song list; AFS 6104[?] includes a record of cowboy
yodels by John A.
Lomax, made in the Recording Laboratory in the spring of 1941 in connection
with the
preparation of the Ballad Hunter series.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6100-6105
Title: Alaska Native Musicale Collection / Native American gospel music
Description: Cassettes containing Native American gospel music from
the 1983 through 1993 Native
Musicales, plus one undated cassette labeled "Simeon Anarkin, "He's
there all the time."
Languages or tribal affiliations mentioned are: Tanaina, Yupik, Inupiaq,
Eskimo. Many
groups represented on each Musicale cassette.
Inclusive Years: 1983-1993
AFC Number: AFC 1994/004
AFS Number:
Title: Professor Alderson / Fiddle Tunes and Folk Songs from Oregon
Description: Two 16-inch discs of fiddle tunes and songs recorded
in Portland, Oregon, by William L.
Alderson, 1946-48.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10366-10367
Title: Edith Allarie Recordings
Description: Recording of folk songs made by Miss Edith Allaire at
the Library of Congress in the Studio.
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9164
Title: John W. Allen / It Happened in Southern Illinois
Description: Press releases of a weekly column series entitled "It
Happened in Southern Illinois" on
regional folklore and historical accounts from Southern Illinois.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1964
AFC Number: AFC 1964/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Fennie Allison Family Lore Collection
Description: Family lore and oral history recorded by Mrs. Fennie
Allison who grew up in North Carolina,
1903-1921.
Inclusive Years: early 1900s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19368
Title: American Dialect Society / Linguistic Atlas of the United States
and Canada
Demonstration Collection
Description: Selected recordings from the American Dialect Society's
Linguistic Atlas of the United
States and Canada discs, recorded throughout the United States in the 1930s
by Nathaniel
Caffee, Marguerite Chapallaz, Walter C. Garwick, Miles L. Hanley, Guy S.
Lowman, Robert L.
Stone, and Lorenzo Turner; also contains excerpts of these selections prepared
for a
demonstration given by Joseph C. Hickerson, Head of the Archive of Folk Culture,
at the
American Dialect Society meeting held at the Library of Congress, December
24, 1984.
Inclusive Years: 1930s~1984
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23252-23255
Title: American Fiddling Styles Workshop
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of instrumentals performed on fiddle
by Joe Meadows, originally of
southern West Virginia, and Brendan Mulvihill. Recorded at the Library
of Congress at a
workshop-demonstration entitled "American Fiddling Styles" sponsored
by the American
Folklife Center, November 17, 1986. The collection includes seven pages
of collection
inventory, ephemera, lists of photos, photocopies of tape boxes, and a
press release.
Inclusive Years: 1986
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1990/008
AFS Number: AFS 26958-26959
Title: American Folk Song Festival, 26th Year
Description: American Folk Song Festival: 26th Year. June 10, 1956,
Ashland, Kentucky. Director, Jean
Thomas.
Inclusive Years: 1956
AFC Number: AFC 1974/007
AFS Number: AFS 17004
Title: American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List (1982
to 1992)
Description: Administrative materials generated by annual panel meetings
of traditional music
specialists leading to ten editions of the American Folklife Center’s
publication American
Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List. The Selected List
was an annotated
discography intended to help promote the best recordings of American folk
music and
folklore issued by various companies and organizations the preceding year.
The manuscript
portion of the collection includes a complete set of the ten Selected Lists,
correspondence from the primarily small independent record labels and organizations
who
donated recordings, correspondence with panelists; panel meeting agendas, minutes,
and
notes on the selection process; correspondence with organizations whose recordings
were
or were not selected; lists of recordings received; materials pertaining to
production and
editing of the publication, including contact sheets and negatives of cover
images from
recordings; publicity generated by the project, and additional miscellaneous
material. The
sound recording portion of the collection includes twenty audiocassettes documenting
the
panel’s deliberations during selection meetings for the 1989, 1990, and
1991 editions of
the Selected List.
Inclusive Years: 1983-1994
AFC Number: AFC 1983/017
AFS Number: N/A
Title: American Folklife Center / 1998 North American Folk Music and Dance
Alliance Lifetime
Achievement Award
Description: Videorecording of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented
to the American Folklife
Center at the 1998 North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance Conference,
February 2,
1998.
Inclusive Years: 1998
Duration: 7:09
AFC Number: AFC 1998/031
AFS Number: N/A
Title: AFC 10th Anniversary Week Collection
Description: Activities of May 21 and 22, 1986 relative to the 10th
Anniversary of the authorization of the
American Folklife Center. Folder 1: Inventory; Fldr 2: PL94-201; Fldr 3:
Publicity; Fldr 4:
Symposium announcement, invitations; Fldr 5: Symposium participants; Fldr
6: Contracts,
arrangements; Fldr 7: Symposium schedule; Fldr 8: Reception Invitation;
Fldr 9: Reception
arrangements; Fldr 10: Party--Neptune Plaza; Fldr 11: Alan Jabbour's draft
remarks; Fldr 12:
Correspondence; Fldr 13: Memos; Fldr 14: Expenses; Fldr 15: Tape recordings.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1987/003
AFS Number: AFS 26220-26225
Title: American Folklife Center 1986 Colloquy on University Education
Description: Background and proceedings of 2nd Colloquy on Folklife
in University Education [see 1984
Colloquy]. Folder 1: Inventory/Introduction; Folder 2: Colloquy participants;
Folder 3:
Participant contracts and agreements; Folddr 4: LC Arrangements and Schedule;
Folder 5:
Expenses; Folder 6: Correspondence; Folder: 7: Alan Jabbour--Thoughts after
colloquy;
Folder 8: Tape recordings of sessions. Part of American Folklife Center
10th Anniversary
Week Collection.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 26215-26219
Title: American Folklife Center Tenth Anniversary Concert Collection
Description: Armenian, Greek and Turkish vocal and instrumental music
performed on clarinet, dumbek,
kannon, and oud, by Leo Sarkisian's Armenian Ensemble, followed by bluegrass
vocals and
instrumentals performed on banjo, fiddle, guitar and mandolin, by the Johnson
Mountain
Boys, in concert at the Library of Congress Neptune Plaza, May 22, 1986. Third
concert
presented by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National
Council for the
Traditional Arts and part of a three day celebration to commemorate the Center's
tenth
anniversary. Recorded by Pete Reiniger.
Inclusive Years: 1986
Duration: 1.75 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24295-24298
Title: American Folklife Center Establishment Reception, 1976
Description: Reception sponsored by the American Folklore Society
and the Library of Congress in honor
of the American Folklife Center, February 19, 1976. Speeches by Daniel Boorstin,
Archie
Green, Sen. Abourezk, Reps. Brademas, Nedz ?, Prior and Thompson; and Profs.
K.
Goldstein and D. Hymes. Performances by Tony Alderman, The Irish Tradition,
Liz Cotten,
John Jackson, The Country Gentlemen and Mariachi America. Recorded by Jay Kingery,
Inc.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18087-18088
Title: American Folklore Genres Lectures
Description: Thirty-six cassettes of lectures on American folklore
genres delivered by various
ethnomusicologists and folklorists. Recorded and produced by Everett/Edward,
Inc.,
Deland, Florida, 1979.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19922-19957
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Richard Reuss Interview
of Thelma James
Description: Interview of Thelma James by Richard Reuss, February
20 and March 13, 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19400-19401
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project Establishment
Description: Meeting of the Historiography Committee of the American
Folklore Society, November 8,
1969, in Atlanta, Georgia. Discussion centered on the establishment of
the American
Folklore Society Oral History Project. Speakers included Richard Dorson,
Richard Reuss,
Neil Rosenberg, Joseph Hickerson, and Dan Ben-Amos.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19797-19798
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / William A. "Bert" Wilson
Interview of Austin
Fife
Description: Interview with Austin Fife by William A. Wilson, May 31,
1972.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19540
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Francis A. de Caro
and Rosan A. Jordan
Interview of Americo Paredes
Description: Interviews of Americo Paredes by Francis A. de Caro and
Rosan A. Jordan, Austin, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19410-19413
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Richard Reuss Interview
of Richard M.
Dorson
Description: Interview of Richard Dorson by Richard Reuss at American
Folklore Society annual
meeting, November 2, 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19409
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Inteviews about
Emelyn E. Gardner
Description: Interviews conducted by Joanne C. Lynch with Orville
Francis Linck, Ellen J. Stekert,
Mildren Marie Connely, Alexander Brede, and Ruth (Mrs. Clarence) Hilberry,
on the subject of
Emelyn E. Gardner. Recorded June-July 1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19402-19406
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Roger Abrahams
Interview of Mody C.
Boatright
Description: Interview of Mody C. Boatright by Roger D. Abrahams conducted
at American Folklore
Society annual meeting in Atlanta, November 5, 1969.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19399
Title: American Folklore Society 1950 Annual Meeting Intermission Program
Collection
Description: One 16-inch disc of an "intermission program #12" with
Librarian of Congress Luther Evans,
Thelma James, and Louis C. Jones of Cooperstown, New York, on the occasion
of the
61st Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., at
the Library of Congress, January 5, 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1950
Duration: 15 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1950/001
AFS Number:
Title: American Folklore Society Annual Meeting / Place-Name Session
Description: Place-Names session of American Folklore Society annual
meeting, Washington, D.C.,
Nov. 13, 1971. Incompletely recorded.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15228
Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Patrick B. Mullen
and Richard Reuss
Interviews of Francis Lee Utley
Description: Interviews of Francis Lee Utley by Patrick B. Mullen,
July 19, 1973, and by Patrick B. Mullen
and Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting, Nashville,
November
3, 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19407-19408
Title: American Record Company / Royal Hawaiian Troubadours
Description: Twenty-four 10-inch discs of Hawaiian folk music performed
by the Royal Hawaiian
Troubadors with various musicians. Recorded in 1905 and produced by the
American
Record Company. The collection includes three-eighths linear inch of correspondence,
logs, and photocopies of discs displaying the production company name and
location.
Duration: 1 hr. 28 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11759-11782
Title: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Directory of Folklife
and Crafts Resources
Collection
Description: Research for the compilation of American Revolution Bicentennial
Administration (ARBA)
directory.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Tom Anderson and Pam Swing / Shetland Fiddle Tunes Collection
Description: Herman Von Bernowitz and wife Francine playing on mandolin
and guitar. Recorded at the
Library of Congress, February 19, 1976. Interviewed by Scott Hambly.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20094-20096
Title: Margaret Anderson / Norwegian American Songs from Wisconsin
Description: Norah Anderson of Wisconsin singing Norwegian-American
folksongs, recorded 1972.
Includes English and Norwegian songs.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1973/004
AFS Number: AFS 15424
Title: Tom Anderson / Pam Swing Shetland Fiddle Tunes Collection
Description: Tom Anderson (fiddle) and Violet Tulloch (piano) perform
and comment in dialect on
Shetland fiddle tunes. Recorded after 1976. Accompanying cassette booklet
prepared by
Robert Innes, Director of Continuing Education, University of Sterling,
Scotland.
Inclusive Years: post-1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20093
Title: John Q. Anderson Collection
Description: John Q. Anderson Collection of lectures, interviews,
and performances of Civil War, frontier,
slave and Louisiana (French, creole, early jazz) folksongs and ballads (Western,
American,
English, Scottish); songs composed by Anderson and Everett A. Gills; live recordings
of
Texas Folklore Society Programs (1963-1966) with performances by John A. Lomax,
Jr.;
play party games arranged for the Lake Charles Ballet Society; misc. Latin
American and
Spanish songs; Australian gold rush songs and sea chanties.
Inclusive Years: 1963-1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20184-20197
Title: Mr. And Mrs. Charles Anderson Recordings
Description: One disc containing seven songs sung by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Anderson of Baltimore,
Maryland, recorded at the Library of Congress in April 1947 by Duncan Emrich,
Arthur D.
Semmig, and Herman Norwood.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8934
Title: Larry Appelbaum / "Remembering Ralph Rinzler" Collection
Description: A collage of memories and tales about Ralph Rinzler by
his friends and colleagues, James
Early, Richard Kurin, Jeffrey LaRiche, and Mike Seeger. This was broadcast
on WPFW-FM
(Washington, DC) on July 17, 1994; the show was hosted by Larry Appelbaum and
produced by Melinda Messore.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1996/013
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Archive Cohorts / Interview with Joseph C. Hickerson
Description: Interview by Jill Linzee, Aldona Joseph, Jeff Place,
and Mary Cliff with Joseph C.
Hickerson, Library of Congress Recording Lab, April 17, 1987, on Joe's
participation in folk
music revival.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1987/009
AFS Number:
Title: The Archive of American Folk Song in 1930s (motion picture)
Description: Video contains segments of film clips made by John, Alan,
and Bess Lomax during
recording expeditions in the 1930s. All the clips are silent footage; color
and
black-and-white. It is believed that Alan wanted to use it to show off
the Archives' collections. Includes logs.
Inclusive Years: 1930s
Duration: 55 min.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/017
AFS Number: AFS 27010
Title: Archive of Folk Song Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium Collection
Description: Papers and discussion on the past, present, and future
of the Archive of Folk Song.
Participants include Sterling Brown, Norman Cohen, Archie Green, Herbert
Halpert,
Wayland D. Hand, Joseph C. Hickerson, Alan Jabbour, Debora Kodish, Alan
Lomax, Carol
Nemeyer, James Porter, and Charles Seeger. Recorded at the Whittall Pavilion
of the
Library of Congress, November 16, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20105-20107
Title: Archive of Folk Song Fiftieth Anniversary Concert Collection
Description: Songs, ballads, and banjo music by Dee and Delta Hicks
of Tinchtown, Tennessee; blues
and bottleneck guitar by David "Honeyboy" Edwards of Chicago,
Illinois; and fiddling by
Benny Thomasson of Arlington, Texas. Also includes an introduction by Alan
Jabbour,
Director of the American Folklife Center, and remarks by Burl Ives and
Joseph C. Hickerson,
Head of the Archive of Folk Song. Recorded at Coolidge Auditorium of the Library
of
Congress, November 16, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20103-20104
Title: Arete: The Memories of Greek-American Women: An Oral History Collection
Project,
1987-1988
Description: Oral history interviews with people of Greek descent
living in the U.S., conducted by
members of the Daughters of Penelope. Interviewers received questionnaires
and release
forms. Subjects include biographical data, also may include folklore-related
info, e.g., on
holidays, marriage, birth, death, and working (see questionnaires). Sound
quality varies.
Inclusive Years: 1987-1988
AFC Number: AFC 1990/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Arikara Dictaphone Belt Recordings, University of Chicago, Fort
Berthold Project Records
Description: Two 7-inch tapes copied from fifteen dictabelts of Arikara
spoken word by an unknown
Arikara ceremonial leader. Recorded at the Fort Berthold Reservation, North
Dakota, by Sol
Tax, 1950-53 as part of the records of the Action Anthropology Project
of the University of
Chicago. Accompanying manuscript materials for these recordings are at
the National
Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Supposed to be recordings
of "an elderly
Arikara ceremonial leader who is now dead." Deposited in the Smithsonian,
NAA by Sol
Tax. Records also include fieldnotes, correspondence, historical materials,
records of the
Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Council, "The Warrior" & "Fort
Berthold Newsletter."
Duration: 3 hrs. 10 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/032
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Arkansas Folk Songs
Description: "Jolly Old Crow" and "Brien O'Lin sung
by Frank Rastell (Frankie Mars). Recorded by Mrs.
Mabel Rastell of Chester, Arkansas.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/020
AFS Number: AFS 8352
Title: Arlington County [Virginia] Folk Arts Program Oral History Project
Description: Oral history project sponsored by the Arlington (Virginia)
County Folk Arts Project.
Interviews with older county residents by high school students, directed
by Lynn Mailloux.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19422-19433
Title: Interviews with Hobart Smith and May Kennedy McCord, 1963
Description: Oral history interviews with Hobart Smith and May Kennedy
McCord, with singing and
instrumental accompaniment, recorded by George and Gerry Armstrong in 1963.
Keywords:
Maryland Virginia
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19883-19885
Title: George Armstrong / Interview with Joseph C. Hickerson
Description: "The Wandering Folksong" radio program, WFMT-FM
(Chicago) December 6, 1974, featuring
an interview of Joseph C. Hickerson on the Archive of Folk Song by George Armstrong
(recorded May 13, 1974).
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17478
Title: George Armstrong Radio (WFMT) Interview with Joseph C. Hickerson
1974 Collection
Description: Interview of Joe Hickerson at the Library of Congress
by George Armstrong for his radio
program "The Wandering Folk Song" on WFMT-FM, May, 1974. Broadcast
December 6,
1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: AFC 1987/010
AFS Number: AFS 24366
Title: George Armstrong Radio Program Collection
Description: "Cecil Sharp in the Southern Appalachians," broadcast
on WFMT (Chicago) November 21,
1980, and "Brasstown (North Carolina) Memories," never broadcast.
Contains interviews with
Olive Dame Campbell, Jean Ritchie Pickow, Edna Ritchie Baker, and others, recorded
by
George Armstrong, ca. 1980.
Inclusive Years: c.1980
Duration: 50 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20101-20102
Title: Malvin Artley Duplication Project
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals performed primarily
on fiddle by Emory Bailey and Uncle
Pat Co[u]gar of Gem, West Virginia, and Arden Wilson of Harrisville, West
Virginia.
Recorded in the Allegheny Mountain area of central West Virginia primarily
by Malvin Artley,
fall 1951. The collection includes Artley's 119-page Ph.D. dissertation
in Music, "The West
Virginia Country Fiddler: An Aspect of the Folk Music Tradition in the United
States"
(Chicago: Chicago Musical College, 1955), and four pages of lists.
Inclusive Years: 1951
Duration: Two hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14087
Title: Malvin Newton Artley / The West Virginia Country Fiddler: An Aspect
of the Folk Music
Tradition in the United States
Description: Dissertation: Chicago Musical College. See also AFS 14087.
Inclusive Years: 1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Asch Recordings Dub of Earl Robinson and Dooley Wilson
Description: One 12-inch disc of "Free and Equal Blues" sung
with piano by Earl Robinson and Dooley
Wilson. Recorded by Asch Recordings in New York City and presented to the
Archive by the
songwriter E.Y. Harburg, February 1945. Words are by E. Y. Harburg.
Inclusive Years: 1945
Duration: 6 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1945/004
AFS Number: AFS 6177
Title: Clarence Tom Ashley Collection
Description: Recordings from the Clarence Tom Ashley Collection, Oral
History Archives, East
Tennessee State University. Includes festival, classroom and commercial
release
performances by Ashley and others, including G. Foster, Carolina Tarheels,
and Tex Isley.
Inclusive Years: 1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19545-19547
Title: Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), Washington Chapter,
Archive of Folk
Culture Researchers Panel, March 28, 2001
Description: Free public presentation of the Washington Metropolitan
Area Chapter of the Association
for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) featuring three Archive of Folk Culture
researchers:
Todd Harvey speaking on Bob Dylan's "House of the Rising Sun" and
set-list for Dylan's
appearance at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival; Mark Jackson speaking on obscure
performances and recordings of Woody Guthrie, including Guthrie's songs "This
Land Is
Your Land" and "Jolly Banker," his radio play broadcast on syphilis,
interactions with Alan
Lomax, etc.; Stephen Wade presenting a paper on the ultimate effect of research
in the
Archive on his audience, including unexpected connections that the audience
establishes
with their own family backgrounds and previous generations. Warren Porter then
spoke on
his family's connection with Wade's performance. The panel was moderated by
Kip Lornell.
Inclusive Years: 2001
AFC Number: AFC 2001/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Louis Attebery / Folk Music Festival at the College of Idaho, 1971
Description: Folk music festival at the College of Idaho, Caldwell,
August 4, 1971. Includes Joe
Hickerson, J. Barre Toelken, Linda Danielson and Idaho fiddlers Loyd Wanzer,
Rue Frisbee
and Vivian Skeans.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: AFC 1974/004
AFS Number: AFS 16997-16998
Title: Elizabeth Atwood and Catherine Walker / Black Children's Chants
Description: Black children's chanted "cheers," ring games,
clapping/rhyming songs, jump-rope related
songs all by sixth grade girls of the Brightwood School, Washington, D.C.;
also an interview
with Jean Alexander concerning these. Recorded in October 1976 by Elizabeth
Atwood
and Catherine Walker.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19146-19147
Title: Audubon Expedition Institute / Oral History Interview with Ambry
Archer
Description: Oral history interview with Ambry Archer of Lubec, Maine,
conducted by the students of the
Audubon Expedition Institute, National Audubon Society, on October 3, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19365-19367
Title: Austrian Good Will Group / Austrian Folksongs
Description: One 16-inch disc of "Und taut's im Tal regnen" (When
it's raining in the valley), "Erzherzog
Johann Jodler" (Archduke Johann Yodeler), "Wenn ich auf hohen
Bergen steh" (When I
stand on high mountains), and "Drunt in der Schintergruabm" (Down
in the Schintergruabm),
sung by the Austrian Good Will Group of Austria. Recorded at the Library of
Congress by
Herman Norwood, December 28, 1949. The collection includes twelve pages of
correspondence and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1949
Duration: 11 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10365
Title: Austrian Phonogrammarchiv Collection
Description: Eight 5-inch tapes of dance tunes, instrumentals, interviews,
songs, and a wedding in the
Croatian, German, and Hungarian languages. Recorded at various locations
in Austria.
Received on exchange from the Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen
Akademie der
Wissenschaften, June 1959. The collection includes one-fourth linear inch
of lists.
Duration: 10.2 hrs.? (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11581-11588
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Title: Marcus Bach / Iowa Recordings
Description: Records made by Marcus Bach in Iowa. List. Keywords:
Norwegian-American
Danish-American
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7738-7753
Title: Marcus Bach and Addison Alspach / Iowa Recordings
Description: Recorded by Marcus Bach and Addison Alspach in Iowa,
September, October, and
November, 1943. List. Keywords: Danish-American Czech-American German-American
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/011
AFS Number: AFS 7068-7082
Title: Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Gang Collection
Description: Copy of 12 songs recorded by the Bailey Brothers and
the Happy Valley Gang 1948-1954 on
the Canary, Rich-R-Tone and WWVA labels.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14167
Title: Laurence Baker / Ozark Stories and Songs
Description: Laurence Baker, nicknamed "Mister B," tells
stories from Hayti and Poke-Oozy Holler,
Missouri. Baker sings songs from the Ozarks with autoharp accompaniment.
Recorded by
Old Time Music of Barrington, New Jersey, prior to March 1978.
Inclusive Years: prior to March 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19360
Title: E.C. Ball Recordings
Description: Guitar pieces, played and recorded by E. C. Ball, Volney,
Virginia, October 1967.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13479
Title: E.C. Ball Virginia Folk Songs Recordings
Description: One 7-inch tape of E. C. Ball recorded
by himself at Volney, Virginia, 1954. List on tape box.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10834
Title: John Ball, Bruce Buckley, and Harold Apel / Ohio Recordings
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of a fiddling contest in Darke County,
Ohio; songs, and stories
recorded in Portsmouth, Ohio, by John Ball and Bruce Buckley, July 1951
June 1952; and
boogie-woogie piano playing and singing (also origin of skiffle) piano
playing and singing
by Rufus Perryman (Speckled Red), recorded by John Ball, 1955. The collection
includes
one-fourth linear inch of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1952-1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11330-11332
Title: Balmoral School of Highland Piping (Scottish) Cassette
Description: Music of Mike Cusack who teaches pipes at St. Thomas
Episcopal School in Houston,
Texas. Bagpipes Scottish
Inclusive Years: 1990s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/015
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jonas Balys / Lithuanian Folksongs
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of Lithuanian folk songs. Recorded
by Dr. Jonas Balys of Indiana
University. List. Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan New Jersey Wisconsin New Hampshire
Massachusetts Illinois [see also AFS 19,161-19178 and AFS 18,805]
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10873-10874
Title: Jonas Balys / Lithuanian American Recordings
Description: Eighteen 10-inch tapes of Greek and Lithuanian songs
recorded in Connecticut, Illinois,
Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York,
Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin by Jonas Balys, 1949-59. The
collection
includes five linear inches of manuscripts containing an alphabetic index of
songs, copies
of six diaries of field expeditions, and photocopies of original tape boxes
having
supplementary information. [see also AFS 10,751, AFS 10,873-10,874, and AFS
18,805]
Inclusive Years: 1949-1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19161-19178
Title: Jonas Balys / Lithuanian Songs in the U.S.
Description: Lithuanian emigrant songs in the United States. Recorded
by Jonas Balys in the United
States, 1949-1950.
Inclusive Years: 1949-1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18805
Title: Jonas Balys / Greek and Lithuanian Songs
Description: One 7-inch tape of eight Greek folk and popular songs
sung by Georgia Tarsouli. Recorded
by Jonas Balys in Bloomington, Indiana, November 1, 1951. [see also AFS
19,161-19178,
AFS 10,873-10,874, and AFS 18,805]
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10751
Title: Summer Banner / Fourth Festival of Pacific Arts: 1985 Video Collection
Description: Video documentary on the Fourth Festival of the Pacific
Arts held in Papeete, Tahiti,
June/July 1985. Produced by Summer Banner.
Inclusive Years: 1985
AFC Number: AFC 1987/007
AFS Number:
Title: Marius Barbeau / French Canadian Songs
Description: Songs collected at Les Eboulements, Charlevoix County,
Quebec; copied from cylinders
sent by the National Museum of Canada (Ottawa). Recorded by Marius Barbeau
in 1916.
Inclusive Years: 1916
AFC Number: AFC 1945/002
AFS Number: AFS 6110-6143
Title: Robert Barlow / Nahautl Texts and Totonac and Yaqui Songs
Description: Six 10-inch discs of Nahuatl texts and Totonac and Yaqui
songs. All discs labeled
"
Grabacion Casa Llaloc, Azcapotzalco, D.F." Recorded by Robert Barlow,
ca. 1949.
Inclusive Years: 1949 ?
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14379-14384
Title: Gordon Barnes / Tygart Valley Festival, 1939
Description: Five 12-inch discs of instrumentals and songs performed
by Adalena, Addison, and
Kathlene Boserman; Joe Haddix; Bob, Dewey, and Myrlo Hamrick; the Happy
Mountaineers;
Ted Henderson; Cathaline, Geraldine, and Wilma Leigh (Wilma Lee Cooper)
Leary; Mr. and
Mrs. Orris Poling; Willie Sigler; and Junior Thompson. Recorded at the
Tygart Valley
Homesteads, Elkins, West Virginia, by Gordon Barnes, April 4-5, 1939, for
the Farm
Security Administration.
Inclusive Years: 1939
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3571-3575
Title: William Barnes Interview Collection
Description: Oral history interview transcript with William Barnes
discussing the traditional wooden boat
building techniques. Interview conducted by Abbot Sprague. Harpswell, Maine.
Inclusive Years: 1977-78
AFC Number: AFC 1978/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Cadle Recordings Collection
Description: Tape copy of 18 acetate discs recorded by Mary Elizabeth
Barnicle-Cadle between 1935
and 1945 in Tennessee, Kentucky and New York City. Individuals recorded
include Huddie
Ledbetter, Aunt Molly Jackson, Jean Ritchie, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1935-1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18963
Title: Steven Barr Yiddish Song Project
Description: Yiddish songs sung by Rose Cohen, a woman of Russian
Jewish descent, who learned
them in a socialist school in Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1914. Recorded by
Steven Barr in
Bethesda, Marylandl, in April 1980.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20198
Title: Sheila Barrett Recording of English Tales
Description: One 16-inch disc of two English stories spoken by Sheila
Barrett of New York City.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress, March 14, 1947.
Duration: 15 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8929
Title: Marietta Barron / Song and Belief Collection
Description: Minstrel songs by Grover Cleveland Taylor; songs by his
daughter Marietta Barron and by
Marie Sullivan; beliefs and cures from Afro-American, American Indian,
Appalachian, Irish,
and Scottish sources by Marietta Barron and Marie Sullivan. Recorded by
Marietta Barron in
1973 and 1982, place unknown.
Inclusive Years: 1973 and 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22191-22192
Title: Joseph Barth / Puerto Rican Religious Ceremonies
Description: Four 16-inch discs of religious ceremonies recorded in
Puerto Rico by Joseph Barth ca.
1948.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1948
Duration: 1 hr. 45 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8946-8949
Title: Peter Bartis / A Preliminary Classification System for Hollers in
the United States
Description: Thesis: University of North Carolina
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Bela Bartok / Folk music of Hungary
Description: Folk music of Hungary. Recorded on cylinders by Bela
Bartok in the 1910s, duplicated by
Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.
Inclusive Years: 1910s
Duration: 10 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12307
Title: Walter E. Barton Interview Collection
Description: Four 7-inch tapes of an interview with Walter E. Barton
concerning his memories of life in
Posey County, Indiana, in the early 1900s. He discusses family life, farm
life, childhood
activities, herbal remedies, and his decision to leave Indiana. Recorded
in Washington,
D.C., by Gerald E. Parsons, Jr. and Margaret B. Parsons, June 27, 1981.
The collection
includes one contact sheet of nineteen black-and-white images, twenty-nine
pages of
correspondence, interview data, logs, newspaper articles, a speech transcript,
tape
summaries, and one hand-drawn map of Barton's home.
Inclusive Years: 1900-1981
Duration: 4 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22486-22489
Title: Basketry Workshop Collection
Description: Panel discussion on white oak basketry sponsored by the
American Folklife Center. Panel
members include Peggy Bulger, Lucreaty Clark, Rosemary Joyce, Ormond Loomis,
and
Dwight Stump. Recorded in Madison Assembly Room of the Library of Congress,
April 8,
1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22493
Title: Bruce Bastin and Richard K. Spottswood / Frank Hovington Recordings
Description: Frank Hovington, Negro singer and guitar and banjo player
recorded at his Frederica,
Delaware home by Bruce Bastin and Richard K. Spottswood, July 5-6, 1975
(see also AFS
18,725-31).
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18943-18944
Title: Ardith Bausenbach / Pete Seeger 1972 Oberlin Commencement Collection
Description: This audiocassette contains a recording of part of Oberlin
College's 1972 commencement
ceremony featuring an address and performance given by Pete Seeger. Included
are
comentary interspersed with the following seven songs: "Follow the
Drinkin' Gourd," "The
Riflemen of Bennington," "Fixing to Die Rag," "Guantanamera," "Sailing
Up My Dirty Stream,"
"
Wimoweh," "Jacob's Ladder."
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1996/032
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Samuel Preston Bayard / Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife Manuscript
Collection
Description: Original manuscript for the book _Dance to the Fiddle,
March to the Fife: Instrumental Folk
Tunes in Pennsylvania_.
Inclusive Years: 1980-1981
AFC Number: AFC 1980/015
AFS Number: N/A
Title: BBC / British Isles Folk Music
Description: Forty-six 12-inch discs of customs, instrumentals, and
songs recorded in Great Britain and
Ireland by various collectors, 1943-49, for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The
collection includes one-half linear inch of accession entries, correspondence,
and
transcriptions. Keywords: England, Scotland, Ireland, Gaelic; Seamus Ennis.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9917-9962
Title: BBC Collection of British Folk Music and Customs
Description: Ten 10-inch and seven 12-inch discs of customs, dances,
instrumentals, a mumming play,
and songs, recorded in Cornwall, County Antrim, Dyfed, Gloucestershire, Isle
of Lewis,
Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, and Somerset by various collectors, 1937-46, for
the British
Broadcasting Corporation. The collection includes ten pages of lists. Ireland;
England; British.
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9011-9027
Title: Robert Beach Fiddle Tunes
Description: Three 7-inch tapes of eighty-seven tunes played on fiddle
by Robert P. Beach, originally of
Lenox, Iowa, accompanied by Iolene Beach, Joseph Winn, and others. Recorded
in
Springfield, Virginia, by Joseph C. Hickerson, March 26, 1966. The collection
includes a
three-page list of Mr. Beach's repertoire and a text of "The Irish
Jubilee."
Inclusive Years: 1966
Duration: 3 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12359-12361
Title: Charles W. Bean / George "Speedy" Krise Videocassette
Collection
Description: One videocassette of a documentary on the valuable contributions
made to early country
music by George "Speedy" Krise, veteran dobroist and songwriter.
This documentary was
produced by Library of Congress staffers Charles Bean and Ray Schmitt,
and was screened
at the Mary Pickford Theater of Library of Congress on November 9, 1995. Keywords:
dobro
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1996/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Charles Bean and Derrick Jones West Virginia Folk Music Project,
Part I
Description: Performers include the Hammons Family, Dewey Farley,
Melvin Wine, Stan Childers,
Russell Fluharty, and Phoebe Parsons. Also a party at home of Howard Glasser,
Westport,
Massachusetts, featuring South American Music (Ecuador). Collected by Charles
Bean and
Derrick Jones, July 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19526-19535
Title: Billy Beard Interview
Description: One 7-inch tape of an interview with Dewey Beard, the
last Sioux survivor of the Battle of
Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand). Recorded in Rapid City, South Dakota,
by Bates
Littlehales, June 18, 1955.
Inclusive Years: 1955
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11403
Title: Katharine Beardmore / Cuban Folk Music
Description: Six 12-inch discs of drum rhythms of five Afro-Cuban
popular dances (columbia, comparsa,
conga, guaguancó, and lucumí) and one example of combined
rhythms played by an
ensemble of five musicians. Recorded possibly in Havana, Cuba, by Katharine
Beardmore,
ca. 1947-48. The collection includes eight pages of correspondence, descriptions,
and
Duration: 22 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1948/025
AFS Number: AFS 8562-8567
Title: Alice Brady Beckmann / Alexander Brady Collection
Description: Songs, poetry, and reminiscences by Alexander Brady,
Pennsylvania-born lumberjack,
peddlar, pharmacist, minister, and versifier; also songs and reminiscences
of Mr. Brady by
his daughter, Alice Brady Brackmann. Recorded by Alice Brady Beckmann,
January 31,
1964, place unknown.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22561
Title: Martha Beckwith Cylinder Duplication Project
Description: Preservation tape of 12 cylinders of Jamaica Negro music
from the Martha Beckwith
Collection, 1920-1924. Cylinders deposited in the Library by Helen Roberts,
February 21,
1937.
Inclusive Years: 1920-1924
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19825
Title: Donald A. Beisswenger / Fiddling Way Out Yonder: Community and Style
in the Fiddle
Music of Melvin Wine
Description: Dissertation
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Gaston Bejarano / Bolivian Folk Music
Description: Folk music of Bolivia recorded in 1958-61 by Gaston Bejarano.
Inclusive Years: 1958-1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19711
Title: Belgian National Institute for Radio-Broadcasting / Belgian Music
Description: Four 10-inch tapes of ethnic music recorded at various
locations in Belgium by the Belgian
National Institute for Radio-Broadcasting, sometime before June 1964. The
collection
includes two pages of lists. "Ethnischen Musick voor Library Congress
of Washington.
Platen Bezorgd aan Verschillende Landen, Instituten en Universiteiten als
Gift via de Heer
Swaehepoel."
Duration: 75 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12092-12095
Title: Edward Bell Collection of Ruth Mae Gasper Bell and Margot Mayo Recordings
Description: Home recordings of American soldiers' songs made in New
York City after World War II.
[According to a note on his own cassette copy made years ago from some
parts of these
78s, the performer's name was Steven (or Stephen) Lee.]
Inclusive Years: 1940s-1950s
AFC Number: AFC 2004/022
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Carolyn Bennett-Speed / Koko Taylor Collection
Description: Blues singer Koko Taylor is interviewed by donor on 107
FM radio, San Jose State
University. Taylor discusses blues singing in Tennessee and her associations
with blues
artists Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1996/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Monroe Benton / American Indian Music
Description: Songs, chants and dance music of the Apache, Crow, Cuchan,
Hopi, Kiowa, Laguna,
Navajo, Oyeh, Pima, Santa Anna, Ute, and Zuni Indians. Largely recorded
at Inter-Tribal
Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico, August 14, 1969; also at All-Indian Pow
Wow, Flagstaff,
Arizona, July 4, 1969, and elsewhere.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19182-19186
Title: Ed and Geraldine Berbaum / Willie D. Jones Fiddling Collection
Description: Fiddle tunes by Willie D. Jones of Old Town, Florida.
One field recording and two
published cassettes called "Heart of Dixie," volumes 1 and 2.
Three newspaper clippings
and one color xerox of photograph of Jones. Includes a 3-page log. See
also Jehile
Kirkhuff Old-Time Music Fund (Ed and Geraldine Berbaum).
Inclusive Years: 1994-1998
AFC Number: AFC 1998/023
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ed and Geraldine Berbaum / Ronald Nauman Fiddling Collection
Description: Ed and Geraldine Berbaum donated two 20-minute audiotapes
of Pennsylvania fiddler,
Ronald Nauman (of Mount Pocono). The tapes were made by Mr. Berbaum on
January 17,
1984. The tapes contain 22 tunes performed by Nauman, and are part of a
larger recording
and preservation project (The Jehile Kirkhuff Old Time Music Fund) directed
by the
Berbaums.
Inclusive Years: 1984
AFC Number: AFC 1998/026
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Gene Berger / "Custer's Last Stand" Related by Col. Willard
Webb
Description: One 7-inch tape of Col. Willard Webb relating the events
of the Battle of Little Big Horn
(Custer's Last Stand) and describing General Custer. Includes a Sioux song
written in
celebration of the Native American victory. Interviewed by Gene Berger
and recorded in
Washington, D.C., by WOL-AM, ca. November 1951.
Inclusive Years: 1951
Duration: 10 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14241
Title: Berkeley Folk Festival, 1960
Description: Workshop participants include Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger,
New Lost City Ramblers,
Sam Hinton, John Lomax, Slim Critchlow, Sandy Paton.
Inclusive Years: 1960
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19450-19454
Title: Berline, Crary, Hickman / American Folklife Center Concert Collection
Description: Bluegrass vocal and instrumental music performed by Byron
Berline (fiddle), Dan Crary
(guitar), and John Hickman (banjo) in concert at the Library of Congress
Neptune Plaza,
April 24, 1986. First in a series of concerts presented by the American
Folklife Center in
cooperation with the National Council for Traditional Arts to commemorate
the tenth
anniversary of the American Folklife Center. Recorded by Pete Reiniger.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24234-24236
Title: Leo H. Berman / A Night With Daddy Grace Collection
Description: One audiocassette copied from a Harlequin LP (HQ 702)
entitled A Night With Daddy Grace
featuring the Grace Heavenly Band and the Grace Emanuel Singers at a Daddy
Grace
Movement meeting. Recorded in Harlem, New York City, on an unknown date. Donated
by
Leo H. Berman, 1980. The collection includes six pages of correspondence, a
log, and an
article about Bishop Charles Emanuel (Sweet Daddy) Grace.
Duration: 37 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20111
Title: Harry W. Bickel / Arthur and Ernest Smith Duplication Project
Description: Copied from a recording of Arthur and Ernest (Roy) Smith,
Tennessee fiddlers, which was
recorded by the Messrs. Smith in 1960 for a Dr. Harris of Tennessee as
a gift for his father.
Inclusive Years: 1960
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20166
Title: Jerome J. Bielinza / Folklore and History: An Approach in the Secondary
School
Description: Thesis: Fairfield University
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: The Kenneth M. Bilby Jamaican Maroon Collection
Description: Traditional music of Jamaican Maroons (descendents of
runaway slaves). Recordings of
"
Jawbone," "Sa Leone," "Mandinga," "Tambu," "Prapa," and "Ibo" song
and drumming genres,
which are a part of the ritual complex known as "Kromanti dance" or
Kromanti play."
Includes music of the Kumina and Convince cults, drumming demonstrations,
processional music, and digging songs. Recorded in Jamaica in 1977 and 1978
by Ken Bilby.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
AFC Number: AFC 1983/008
AFS Number: AFS 21959-21987
Finding Aid: http://memory.loc.gov/service/afc/eadxmlafc/eadpdfafc/2002/af002001.pdf
Title: John Bird / "Percy Grainger and British Folk Music" Collection
Description: Lecture by John Bird of London, England, entitled "Percy
Grainger and British Folk Music,"
with an introduction by Alan Jabbour; includes a question and answer session.
Recorded
at the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress, April 6, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22609-22610
Title: Bjorngjeld Family Collection
Description: Two cassettes of instrumentals and songs by the Bjorngjeld
family, recorded in Minnesota,
November 1986, and Columbus, North Dakota, 1956-60. The collection includes
a two-page
list of sixty-three instrumentals and songs, eleven pages of notes, and an
article about the
family. Bjorngjeld Family Reunion Band in concert at the Homestead Pickin Parlor
[
Richfield, MN, November 22, 1986); and Dulono's, November 29, 1986), Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Selections recorded include country music, Scandinavian dance music,
bluegrass, gospel, and ballads [ recorded by Arthur J. Bjorngjeld?] Bjorngjeld
Family
"
homemade recordings": sample of records and tapes recorded at home [location
unknown]
during the 1950s and 1960s. Musicians include Clarence Bjorngjeld (harmonica
and
vocals), Ervin Bjorngjeld (tenor banjo), Alfred Bjorngjeld (piano accordian),
Borghild Person
(guitar and vocals), Olga Hanson (mandolin and vocals).
Inclusive Years: 1956-1986
AFC Number: AFC 1987/005
AFS Number: AFS 24362-24363
Title: Lou Blachley / New Mexico Pioneer and Oral History
Description: New Mexico pioneer folklore and oral history recorded
in early 1950s by Lou Blachley.
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14141-14154
Title: Robert A. Black / Pete Seeger Disc Collection
Description: One 10-inch disc of three songs related to farming sung
by Pete Seeger of Beacon, New
York. Recorded at Dynamic Recording Studio in New York City, sometime during
the 1940s.
Inclusive Years: c.1940s
Duration: 5 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22492
Title: Robert A. Black / Kentucky and Arkansas Folk Music Collection
Description: Songs and stories by various performers at the annual
Mountain Folk Festival at Berea
College, Berea, Kentucky; and songs by Fred High of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Recorded by
Robert A. Black in Berea, Kentucky, April 6, 1957, and Fayetteville, Arkansas,
in 1958.
Inclusive Years: 1957-1958
Duration: 50 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22494-22495
Title: Robert A. Black Duplication Project
Description: Pueblo chants and music recorded 1957-1966 in Arizona
and New Mexico by Robert A.
Black. Principally Hopi, with some Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni.
Inclusive Years: 1957-1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14059-14077
Title: Judith Blank / Black Children's Songs
Description: Two Negro children's songs: "200-De-O," performed
by a group of girls at an unidentified
Massachusetts public school; and "Going Back to Texas," performed
by a black boy at the
same school, spring 1977. Recorded by students of Judith Blank at Holy
Cross College,
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19180
Title: Harold Blau / Onondaga Indian Music and Lore
Description: Nine 10-inch tapes of Onondaga songs and spoken word
recorded in New York by Harold
Blau, 1956-66. The collection includes ten pages of correspondence, lists,
and notes.
Also includes a Black Muslim song.
Inclusive Years: 1956-1966
Duration: 18 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1972/009
AFS Number: AFS 14653-14661
Title: Hope Cynthia Bliss / The Development of a Classification and Retrieval
System to Aid
Teachers and Reseachers in Organizing Folksongs for Integration into the
Elementary
School Curriculum
Description: Dissertation: University of Pennsylvania
Inclusive Years: 1981
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Howard Bloomfield and Harry Gilpar / Yiddish Songs
Description: Yiddish songs sung by Adele Weinrub, Zisl Nathan, Anna
Kelman, and Anita Bonden.
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, by Howard Bloomfield and Henry Gilpar
of UCLA
under the supervision of Wayland Hand, 1949.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10132-10137
Title: Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection
Description: Field survey of various aspects of traditional life,
work, and expression along the Blue Ridge
Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia. Recorded by Thomas A. Adler, Lyntha
Scott Eiler,
Terry Eiler, Carl Fleischhauer, Alan Jabbour, Geraldine Johnson, Richard McCamant,
Wallace Macnow, Howard W. Marshall, Patrick B. Mullen, Blanton Owen, Margaret
Counts
Owen, and George Price, Jr., under the coordination of Charles K. Wolfe, in
August-September 1978. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National
Park
Service. Collection includes substantial photographic and manuscript documentation;
also some video recording of dance. Includes children's games and hand-claps.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: AFC 1982/009
AFS Number: AFS 21363-21829
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/blueridge.html
Title: Blue Sky Boys Duplication Project
Description: Country vocal and instrumental music by the Blue Sky
Boys: A. Bolick (mandolin), Earl
Bolick (guitar), Curly Parker (fiddle).
Inclusive Years: 1946-1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17971-17978
Title: The Blues: Living Legends and the Music of Oakland
Description: Locally produced special series aired on _The Channel
7 News_ , 6:00 p.m., Mon-Fri, the
week of February 29, 1989, San Francisco, California (aired again as 1/2
hour special March
18, 1989, 7:30 p.m.) KGO-TV sports anchor (and vocalist) Marc Gibson, interviews
well-known and local blues musicians about the Oakland blues scene from the
1940s to
the present. Edited and produced by John Turner, co-produced by Marc Gibson.
AFC Number: AFC 1989/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Harlan E. Bogie / Clare Alexander Bogie Wire Collection
Description: "Home recordings" of Mr. Clare Bogie and associates.
Clare Bogie, a bandleader,
composer, award-winning fiddler, and pianist from Pontiac, Michigan, was
recorded by his
grandson, Harlan E. Bogie. The wire recording was made in 1951, and features
Clare
Bogie and others performing instrumentals, as well as gospel, Irish and
popular songs.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: AFC 1995/032
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Marina Bokelman / Coon can game: A Blues Ballad Tradition
Description: M.A. Thesis, UCLA, 1968. Microfilm Number: 97/1103
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Eleanor Jean Bonar Collection of Songs from Iowa and Kentucky
Description: Four linear inches of manuscripts and typescripts of
song texts, with some tunes, as well
as newspaper clippings containing song texts. Collected primarily in Iowa
and Kentucky by
Eleanor Jean Bonar.
Manuscript collection comprising texts of ballads, folksongs, popular
songs, and poetry
collected from family members (especially the Bonar-Batchelder family),
friends, high
school students, and published sources. Many are from the Appalachian Region,
some
songs were collected by Lona Counts at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky,
recorded from
oral tradition. Contributors from Iowa are the focus for the collection,
as is shown on
Bonar's hand drawn map. Here, Bonar appears to have continued the work
she began for her
master's thesis (1930). Most song texts date from 1930-1939, a scrapbook has
clippings
dated 1894-1954 with articles from the popular press by or about other folksong
collectors,
including John Jacob Niles, Jean Thomas, Helen Hartness Flanders, and George
Korson,
plus articles on temperance songs. A few items are song texts in family papers
dated
1853-1874, and there are musical transcriptions for tunes for some of the songs.
Also includes three pamphlets: "American Folk Lore Paul Bunyan Tales" /
Charles E.
Brown (Madison, Wisc.: State Historical Museum, 1922); "Mountain Ballads
for Social
Singing" / selected by James Watt Raine, music collected by Cecil
J. Sharp (Berea, Ky.:
Berea College Press, 1923); and "Little Studies in American Music
for Home Project
Groups and 4-H Girls' Clubs" / Fannie R. Buchanan (Ames, Iowa: Iowa
State College
Extension Service, Nov. 1937).
Inclusive Years: 1853-1954, bulk 1930-1939
AFC Number: AFC 1971/001
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: Index to song titles; Index to contributers (print only)
Title: Charles Bond / Songs and Gospel Hymns from the Beech Mountain area
of western North
Carolina
Description: Songs and gospel hymns sung from the Beech Mountain area
of western North Carolina,
recorded Feb.-March 1971 by Charlie Bond.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15226-15227
Title: Bill Bonyan / Harry Garfield Duplication Project
Description: Maritime folklore and reminiscences by Harry Garfield,
who served aboard a ship off the
southeast coast of Africa. Recorded with Bill Bonyan, place unknown, in
1954. The
collection also includes songs by Florida high school girls which describe
their work in the
tobacco growing industry in Connecticut, recorded by Bill Bonyan in Manchester,
Connecticut, in the late 1950s.
Inclusive Years: 1954, and the late 1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20109-20110
Title: Daniel Boorstin Farewell Reception Collection
Description: Patsy Montana (guitar, vocals) with the Rhythm Ranch
Band, consisting of Cathy Fink
(guitar, vocals), Marcy Marxer (mandolin, vocals), Pete Kennedy (electric
guitar), Mike Stein
(fiddle), and Ralph Gordon (bass), perform country swing and western music
in concert on
the Library of Congress Neptune Plaza at the Library's farewell reception
for Librarian of
Congress Daniel Boorstin, September 10, 1987.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1987/028
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Mrs. D. A. Booth Singing "Death of my Brother"
Description: "Death of my Brother," sung by Mrs. D. A. Booth
in Nashville, Tennessee, 1956.
Inclusive Years: 1956
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12358
Title: Songs Sung by Daniel B. Botkin, age 6
Description: Sung by Daniel B. Botkin (age 6) in Washington, D.C.,
November 20, 1943. Recorded by B.
A. Botkin and John Langenegger. List.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/009
AFS Number: AFS 7064-7065
Title: Benjamin A. Botkin Duplication Project
Description: White and Negro folk music and folklore recorded 1949
in North Carolina and South
Carolina by B. A. Botkin. Includes Artus Moser and Bascom Lamar Lunsford.
Also air
checks of Foggy Mountain boys and church services.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14083-14086
Title: Benjamin A. Botkin Duplication Project
Description: Four 10-inch tapes of narratives, radio programs, and
songs recorded in California,
Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington,
and
Washington, D.C., by Benjamin A. Botkin and the Voice of America, 1949-58.
The
collection includes five pages of notes. Includes Botkin's Western trip
of 1950, Voice of
America folklore programs; air checks from ca. 1952-53 including a program
honoring Carl
Sandburg's 75th birthday; and selections from Botkin's Southern trip of
1949. Keywords: Bascom
Lamar Lunsford; Sterling Brown.
Inclusive Years: 1949, 1950, 1952-1953
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14218-14221
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 20: Miscellaneous discs
Description: Twenty-two 10-inch discs of music recorded by Laura Boulton
in various parts of the world,
1949-61. Boulton's demonstration recordings for a class at University of
California at Los
Angeles. Includes American Indian, Mexican, Polynesian, Japanese, Arabic,
Ecuadorian,
Peruvian folk music. Also includes European classical music for organ and
chamber
orchestra.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17155-17176
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 19: Folk Music, Haiti
Description: Folk music performed by Laura Boulton in Haiti in 1947.
Includes voodoo performances.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17135-17154
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 18: Unidentified American Indian Music
Description: Unidentified American Indian music recorded by Laura
Boulton on the Hood River, Oregon,
in 1947.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17129-17134
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 17: Unidentified American Indians
Description: Four 10-inch discs of twenty-two songs sung by American
Indians of the Nez Perce,
Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakima communities. Recorded in Pendleton,
Oregon, by
Laura Boulton, 1946.
Inclusive Years: 1946
Duration: 41 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17125-17128
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 16: Eskimo Songs
Description: Ten 10-inch discs of Eskimo dance songs, some with drum
accompaniment, and songs of
the Messenger Feast, recorded in Point Barrow, Alaska, by Laura Boulton,
October 11-17,
1946. The collection includes eighteen pages of explanations of songs,
notes, and some
textual transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1946
Duration: 3 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17115-17124
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 11: Music of the Peoples of Canada
Description: Three hundred eighteen 10-inch discs of instrumentals
and songs recorded in British
Columbia, Illinois, Manitoba, Minnesota, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia,
Ontario, and
Quebec by Laura Boulton, 1941-42, for the National Film Board of Canada.
The collection
includes three linear inches of notes. Includes several Indian, Eskimo
and immigrant
groups, especailly French-Canadian, Anglo Irish, Scottish (including Gaelic),
and Polish.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16336-16653
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 1: Negro Folklore
Description: Negro Folklore. Recorded 1935-37 by Walter Garwick in
Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama.
Inclusive Years: 1935-1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15667-16726
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 23: Africa, Europe, Far East, Latin
America, etc.
Description: Three-hundred and forty-four 7-inch tapes, twenty-two
5-inch tapes and one 3-inch tape of
instrumentals and songs recorded in Africa, Europe, Far East, Latin America,
Middle East,
Near East, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia by Laura Boulton,
1949-61.
The collection includes one-third linear inch of articles, correspondence,
and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1949-1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18102-18468
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 4: California Indian Music
Description: California Indian Music. Copied from cylinders recorded
1904-1908 by Charles F. Lummis of
the Southwest Museum.
Inclusive Years: 1904-1908
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15853-15858
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 9
Description: Recorded primarily in New Mexico among the Navajo, Hopi,
Winnebago, Mescalero, Sioux
and Jemez Pueblo Indians in 1933 by Laura Boulton.
Inclusive Years: 1933
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16152-16277
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 21: Appendix to Part 11 (Canada)
Description: Appendix to Part 11 (Music of the Peoples of Canada).
Ethnicities include French,
Gaelic-Scots, Ukrainian, Greek, and Tsimsian Indian recorded in or about
dances, church
services (including Christmas), storytelling, potlaches, speechmaking,
carol singing, etc.
Instruments of special importance include violins and bells.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17177-17194
Title: Laura Boulton / Byzantine & "Rainess" Collection
Description: The Byzantine portion of this collection is sponsored
by Harvard University's Center for
Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C. The collection contains
70
audiotapes and one audiotape list supplied by the donor. The audiotape
list does not
include an alternate numerical sequence used on the tape boxes, and it
omits one
audiotape. A content list is with the collection.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1969
AFC Number: AFC 1995/037
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 12: Music of Mexico
Description: Forty-five 10-inch discs of vocal and instrumental music
recorded by Laura Boulton in
various parts of Mexico, 1940. Acquired on exchange from Columbia University.
Features
voice, guitar, drum, flute, reed instruments, etc.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16654-16698
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 2: North Carolina Collection
Description: North Carolina Collection. Recorded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
in 1935.
Inclusive Years: 1935
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15727-15820
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 8: French West Africa
Description: Recorded 1934 in French West Africa by Laura Boulton.
Inclusive Years: 1934
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15880-16151
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 14: Miscellaneous speech samples and
narratives
Description: Miscellaneous speech samples and narratives. Many dubbed
from commercial recordings.
Areas represented are Africa (Sierre Leone, Uganda), North American Indian
(Chilcat,
Dakota [ Sioux], Karok, Nez Perce, Onandaga, Oneida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian).
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16845-16957
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 13: Apache, cocapah, Fox, Hopi, Mohave,
Navajo, Pima and
Zuni
Description: Apache, Cocapah, Fox, Hopi, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, and
Zuni Indian songs with drum
rattle, bell and Jew's harp accompaniment, recorded by Laura Boulton in
1940.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16699-16844
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 3: Pennsylvania Folklore
Description: Pennsylvania Folklore. Recorded May 1935 at the First
Annual Pennsylvania Folk Festival,
Allentown, Pennsylvania (organized by George Korson), by George Hibbit
and Walter
Garwick.
Inclusive Years: 1935
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15821-15852
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 15: Miscellaneous from U.S.
Description: Fifteen 10-inch discs of instrumentals and songs, including
examples from
African-American, Mexican, Polish, and Ukrainian traditions, recorded at
various locations
in the United States. Recorded by Laura Boulton, 1941-42, for the National
Film Board of
Canada. The collection includes two linear inches of notes. Includes spirituals
some of
which are sung by the "Yellow Pocahantas" group of New Orleans,
Louisiana.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16958-16972
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 6: Angolan Tribal Music
Description: Angolan Tribal Music. Copies from cylinders recorded
by Laura Boulton in 1931.
Inclusive Years: 1931
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15861-15870
Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 10: Music of the West Indies
Description: Fifty-eight 10-inch discs of instrumentals, songs and
stories recorded in the Bahamas,
Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Martinique, by Laura Boulton,
1938. The
collection includes three-quarters of a linear inch of correspondence,
description, and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16278-16335
Title: The Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection
Description: Traditional folk, art, and popular music of Morocco.
Recorded by Paul Bowles. The
collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, and accompanying
documentation
that focus primarily on one recording project. Also included is dance music,
secular music,
music for Ramadan and other Islamic rites, and music for animistic rituals.
Also includes
Hebrew material.
Inclusive Years: 1959-62
AFC Number: AFC 1960/001
AFS Number: AFS 11623-11687; 12016-12020
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/paulbowles.html
Title: Lasserre Bradley / Primitive Baptist Music of North Carolina and
Kentucky
Description: Primitive Baptist music recorded at various congregations
in North Carolina and Kentucky
by Lasserre Bradley, Jr., Baptist Bible Hour Broadcast, Cincinnati, 1961-71.
Inclusive Years: 1961-1971
Duration: 43 min.; 49 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17495-17501
Title: Elaine Bradtke / Molly Dancing and the Seven Champions: Postmodernism
and the
Re-Invention of Tradition
Description: Dissertation: University of Maryland
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Michelle Branigan / Piedmont Folksong Project: Little Union Baptist
Church Watch Night
Service Videotape Collection
Description: This is a videotape of a Watch Night service taped at
the Litle Union Baptist Church
[Charlottesville, Virginia area?] on December 31, 1992, by Michelle Branigan.
It is a
documentary on the religious song traditions of Cumberland and Amelia counties
in
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1996/020
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Elaine C. Breach / Subject access to Ethnic Folk, and National Music
Manuscript
Description: Masters thesis in Music History and Literature and Library
and Information Science, U.
Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1985.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Dorothy Brennan Doyle Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of folk music from around the world,
sung by Dorothy Brennan Doyle.
These songs were learned when she was with the group “The Consort” under
the
leadership of Prof. Roy Mitchell from 1934-1941 at New York University. “The
Consort”
performed international songs, drawing on their contacts with recent New
York City
immigrants. Recorded at an unknown location by Dorothy Brennan Doyle, circa
1993. The
collection includes two and a half linear inches of phonetic lyrics to
the recorded songs,
correspondence, scripts of folk radio music broadcasts, one black-and-white
photo print,
and other photocopied images.
Inclusive Years: c.1934-1993
Duration: 2 hrs. 22 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 2000/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Brevard County, Florida Oral History Project, 1992
Description: The Brevard County Oral History Video Project, under
the direction of Nancy Yasecko of
Vanguard Productions of Merritt Island, Florida, documented and preserved
the regional,
occupational, and ethnic heritage of Brevard County, Florida, through videotaped
interviews
of long-time residents. The interviews are with a variety of individuals
who through personal
reminiscence bring life to the history of Brevard County, spanning a range
of time and
subjects from "Old Florida to the Space Age." Interviews are with
a publisher, a space
industry worker, a bookkeeper, a doctor's daughter, a postman, a cattleman,
a courthouse
worker, a developer's daughter, a fisherman's daughter, and a school teacher.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1995/034
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Vaughn and Kay Brewer Ozark Mountain Collection
Description: Ballad and shape note singing, tales, supersititons,
civil war oral history, craft description
(fiddle making, whiskey making), concert w/ Folklore Society and Jimmie
Driftwood teaching
5 folklore classes at E. Tennessee State Univ.
AFC Number: AFC 1980/007
AFS Number: AFS 25768-25807
Title: Brierfield Ironworks / Alabama Fiddlers Collection
Description: Alabama old-time fiddlers perform tunes for collector
Joyce Cauthen, who planned to use
selections of the material for an LP. Various accompanists. Sponsored by
Brierfield
Ironworks park with additional funding from the Alabama State Council on
the Arts. Project
Director: Joyce Cauthen. Folklorist: Joey Brackner. Record album produced
from tapes
_Possum up a Gum Stum: Home, Field, and Commercial Recordings of Alabama
Fiddlers
Past and Present_, 1988. Side 2 includes field recordings. Originals at
the Department of
Manuscripts and Archives of the Birmingham Public Library.
AFC Number: AFC 1988/015
AFS Number: AFS 26177-26200
Title: Joe Broadman / Bob Dylan Studio Session Collection
Description: The collection consists of a tape recording containing
25 songs performed in May 1961 in
Minneapolis by Bob Dylan. Twenty-three of the songs are traditional folksongs
or Woody
Guthrie compositions; two are early Dylan compositions.
Inclusive Years: 1961
AFC Number: AFC 1992/004
AFS Number:
Title: David Brose / Ward Jarvis Recordings
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals and stories performed
on banjo and fiddle and spoken by
Ward Jarvis. Recorded in Stewart, Ohio, by David A. Brose, April 30, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 1 hr. 15 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19386
Title: David Brose / Ward Jarvis Project, Part 1
Description: Five 10-inch tapes of an interview with and banjo and
fiddle instrumentals played by Ward
Jarvis of Braxton County, West Virginia. Recorded in Stewart, Ohio, by
David A. Brose,
December 12, 1978 June 26, 1979. The collection includes twenty-four pages
of logs.
Inclusive Years: 1978-1979
Duration: 10 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22063-22067
Title: David Brose / Harvey Phelps Video Collection
Description: Three videocassettes of commentary, instrumentals, and
songs spoken and performed with
banjo by Harvey Phelps. Includes an interview with Phelphs. Recorded in Delaware,
Ohio,
by David A. Brose, Jack Shortlidge, and Gary L. Walker (camera), April 23,
1984.
Inclusive Years: 1983
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: AFC 1984/010
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Saul Broudy / American Serviceman's Songs from Vietnam War
Description: One 10-inch tape of American servicemen's songs from
the Vietnam War, recorded
primarily at an aviation unit commanders' conference in Nha Trang, Vietnam,
April 1967.
The collection includes a 70-page M.A. thesis entitled "GI Folklore
in Viet-Nam" by Saul
Broudy that includes extensive song transcriptions from this collection.
Inclusive Years: c.1962
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17970
Title: Sterling Brown and Lewis Jones Recordings
Description: Records made by Sterling Brown of Howard University and
Lewis Jones of Fisk University,
consisting of personal narratives by a Negro barber in Nashville, Tennessee,
and throw
valuable light on Southern life and lore, especially as they involve race
relations.
AFC Number: AFC 1945/009
AFS Number: AFS 7602-7610
Title: Tom Brown and Dwight Diller / Hammons Family Collection
Description: Twenty 10-inch tapes of instrumentals, songs, and stories
performed and spoken by
William Moses "Mose" Coffman of Greenbrier County, West Virginia;
the Hammons family of
Pocahontas County, West Virginia; Tommy Hal Hunter of Mars Hill, North Carolina;
and
Dellie C. Norton of Marshall, North Carolina. Recorded in West Virginia by
Dwight Diller,
Patrick Gainer, and Bill Hicks, July 1969 October 1970, and in North Carolina
by Bill Hicks.
The collection includes one and one-fourth linear inches of correspondence
and logs.
Includes ballads, clogging, instrumental music, interviews, songs and stories.
Copied from
duplicates of Diller's recordings made by Tom Brown of West Virginia University
and Carl
Fleischhauer of the American Folklife Center, and loaned by Tom Brown.
Inclusive Years: 1969-1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22948-22967
Title: Tom Brown / "Appalachian Folk Music" Collection
Description: One 5-inch tape of instrumentals and songs performed
with banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica,
and plucked dulcimer by school children (K-8) of Webster County, West Virginia,
involved
in an Appalachian folk music class. Recorded by Tom Brown, May 1976 May 13,
1980. The
collection includes six pages of correspondence and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1976-1980
Duration: 23 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22469
Title: Ray B. Browne / Alabama Folk Songs
Description: Ph.D. Dissertation: University of California, Los Angeles
Inclusive Years: 1956
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Joseph Bruchac / Native American Storytelling
Description: Performance sponsored by the American Folklife Center
of Joseph Bruchac titled "Native
American Storytelling." November 17, 1994.
Inclusive Years: 1994
Duration: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1994/009
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Peter Buchan / Secret Songs of Silence: Chiefly Scottish, Ancient
and Unpublished from
the Recitation of Very Old People
Description: Harvard University Library, 1832. Microfilm Number: 97/1104
Inclusive Years: 1832
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Steven C. Budlong / "See You in Hell, Blind Boy" Video
Collection
Description: The video includes a February 2, 1995, interview by George
Pratt with Mississippi bluesman
Jack Owens for use in defining the fictional character of Blind Boy in a book
in progress by
Budlong and Pratt to be entitled See You in Hell, Blind Boy.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/029
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard E. Buehler / An Annotated Collection of Contemporary Obscene
Humor
Description: M.A. Thesis, Indiana University, 1964. Microfilm Number:
97/1105
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Major A. Buenaventura / Philippines Recordings
Description: Recording of folk songs of the Philippines, made by Major
Buenaventura.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9433
Title: Mary Elizabeth Buford / Folk Songs of Florida and Texas
Description: Thesis
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Bureau of American Ethnology Transfers / American Indian Recordings
Description: American Indian recordings from the Bureau of American
Ethnology, Smithsonian. Includes
copies of 110 discs of Mission Indians recorded by John P. Harrington, 1930-1941;
12
discs of Aleut Indians recorded by John P. Harrington; 4 discs of Cherokee
Indian material;
6 discs of Chumash Indian material (California), recorded by George Henley,
1912-1914;
and 1 disc of Hopi Indian dance chants dubbed from Victor 20043.
Inclusive Years: 1930-1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15403-15423
Title: Amos Burg / Alaska Recordings
Description: Twenty-six 12-inch discs of accordion performances, interviews,
narratives, a recitation,
and songs, recorded in various locations in Alaska by Amos Burg, 1941.
Annotations are
largely based on a "Survey and Spot Analysis" compiled by Samuel
V. Wilson (1992).
Duration: 4 hours, ten min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6328-6353
Title: Natalie Curtis Burlin Native American Song Manuscript Collection
Description: Musical scores and notes for Natalie Curtis Burlin's "Indian's
Book." Score and essay for
"
Dawn Song" by Natalie Curtis Burlin. Native American songs and scores
(manuscripts).
Original music scores and 2 pages of an essay by Burlin are in fragile
condition. Photocopy
of essay accompanying "Dawn Song" included in collection file and
with collection.
AFC Number: AFC 1957/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Martin W. Burman / Political Song Performance Styles of the Old
and New Left
Description: Thesis: Wesleyan University
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Deborah Burns / Weaver's Mennonite Church Recordings
Description: Shape note, Harmonia Sacra, religious choral singing
recorded January 1, 1974 at
Weaver's Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, by Deborah Burns.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18707-18710
Title: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded by Amanda M. Burt in Reykjavik,
Iceland, 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14630
Title: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folksongs
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded 1968 and 1973 by Hallfredus
Orn Eiriksson and Amanda M.
Burt.
Inclusive Years: 1968 and 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15609-15610
Title: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded 1974 by Amanda Burt.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17025-17026
Title: Amanda Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded and duplicated by Amanda
M. Burt, 1972.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15100-15101
Title: Smokey Butler / Texas Fiddle Tunes Collection
Description: The collection includes a glossy photograph, two articles,
and two audiocassettes relating
to the musical talent of Smokey Butler. Butler is an old-time fiddler from
Texas competes
in national fiddling competitions. The articles offer insight as to Butler's
musical
background and his contemporary fiddling activities. The audiocassettes
contain 81 tunes
in which Smokey Butler plays fiddle, Mary Butler and Bryan Jimmerson play
guitar, and
Charles Gardner plays bass fiddle. A list of the tunes on the audiocassettes
is included.
Duration: 1 hr.
AFC Number: AFC 1998/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Senator Robert C. Byrd West Virginia Fiddle Recordings Collection,
Part II
Description: Sixteen 10-inch and four 7-inch tapes of songs performed
with fiddle by Senator Robert C.
Byrd of Sophia, West Virginia. Recorded at the Library of Congress by Carl
Fleischhauer,
John E. Howell, and Alan Jabbour, December 14, 1977, and January 4, 1978.
The last four
tapes contain selections taken from the previous sixteen tapes. The collection
includes a
thirty-two page list.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
Duration: 9 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19314-19333
Title: Senator Robert C. Byrd West Virginia Fiddle Recordings Collection,
Part I
Description: Appalachian country music played on the fiddle by Senator
Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia,
recorded by Alan Jabbour and Carl Fleischhauer at the Senator's home in McLean,
Virginia, July 4-6, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19290-19313
C
Title: Ruth Cade / Music of Afghanistan
Description: Music of Afghanistan.
Inclusive Years: 1954
Duration: 40 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10872
Title: Charles Wakefield Cadman / Omaha and Winnebago Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape copied from cylinders of Omaha and Winnebago
songs and flute pieces
recorded by Charles Wakefield Cadman in the summer of 1909 in Thurston
County,
Nebraska.
Inclusive Years: 1909
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21255
Title: L.H. Caldwell Pennsylvania Dutch Songs
Description: One 7-inch tape of Kansas and Pennsylvania German family
lore and six songs sung and
spoken by L. Harold Caldwelll of Wichita, Kansas. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., at the
Library of Congress by Gerald E. Parsons, December 22, 1975. The collection
includes
one-quarter linear inch of a bibliography, correspondence, and notes. Includes "Chingly
Chan" songs.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18732
Title: Foister Caldwell Recording Project
Description: Foister and Nancy Caldwell of Roark, Leslie County, Kentucky,
singing gospel songs and
hymns at the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, July 9, 1973, recorded
by Alan
Jabbour and Robert Carneal. Keyword: Pentecostal Holiness.
Inclusive Years: 1973
Duration: 45:54
AFC Number: AFC 1973/018
AFS Number: AFS 15608
Title: California and Tennessee Recordings
Description: Six 7-inch tapes of Anglo American ballads, songs, and
tales recorded in Tennessee by
Jerome Wenker, 1961; songs sung in Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and
Spanish
recorded in California by Norine Dresser, Spring 1970; and German instrumentals
and
songs recorded in California by Eileen Marrison, 1971. The collection includes
six pages of
lists and was obtained from the Archive of California and Western Folklore
at the University
of California Los Angeles.
Inclusive Years: 1961, 1970, 1971
Duration: 1 hr. so far
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18074-18079
Title: Cleve Callison / Sacred Harp Singers Radio Program Collection
Description: Radio broadcast on Sacred Harp singing produced and hosted
by Cleve Callison; includes
interviews with singers Buell Cobb, Carl Hughes, Hugh McGraw, Lisa Wooten,
and Mac
Wooten. Recorded at the Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen,
Georgia, date
unknown.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22607
Title: Henry Baxley 1963 National Championship Country Music Contest Collection
Description: Finals of the 1963 National Championships Country Music
Contest held August 3-4, 1963,
at Lake Whipporwill, Warrenton, Virginia, and sponsored and conducted by
the
Warrenton-Fauquier Jaycees. Chairman of the contest: Henry Baxley. Master
of
Ceremonies: Eddie Matherly (disc jockey, WKCW radio, Warrenton); recorded
by Sonny
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: AFC 1987/029
AFS Number:
Title: Arthur L. Campa / Spanish Folk Songs
Description: Thirty 12-inch discs of fifty Mexican songs, thirty songs
sung in English, and four
instrumentals. Recorded at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado,
by Don Almera,
Arthur L. Campa, and Roberto Peraza, 1948-50. Univ. of New Mexico Recording
project. List
in project file.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1950
Duration:
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