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Title: Eastern Illinois University Folk Music and Crafts Survey Collection
Description: Interviews, songs, stories, bluegrass, blues, Irish,
and string band music by various
performers on bagpipes, banjo, dobro, fiddle, flute, guitar, mandolet,
mandolin, violin-uke,
and zither. Recorded by Carl Fleischhauer, Gaye Harris, Garry Harrison,
Steve Harrison,
John Holiday, David Miller, Lynn Smith, and others in various eastern Illinois
communities
and at the Eastern Illinois University Festival of the Arts in 1977 and
1979. The Survey was
directed by Vaughn Jaenike, Dean of Eastern Illinois University School
of Fine Arts, and
was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Charles E. Merril
Trust.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22071-22103
Title: George Edwards / "I Walked the Road Again"
Description: One betacam video of George Edwards singing "I Walked
the Road Again," [Norman
Studer?] records the song, and an unidentified fiddle player plays an unidentified
tune.
Unedited footage consisting of three takes. Director's last name ("Hack")
appears on
clapperboard in film.
Inclusive Years: 1944?
Duration: 27 min.
AFC Number: AFC 1944/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: W. Dean Edwards Collection
Description: Three cassettes and five videocassettes of demonstrations
of square, round, and
contradancing by the "Fun Finders." Recorded in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, by Dean
Edwards, 1993. The collection includes fifteen brochures, five color photographs,
and
twelve pages of correspondence and notes. This collection is composed of
recordings
which are updated, published recordings of versions of cassettes donated
in 1992.
Duration: 9 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1995/015
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Halim El-Dabh / Mali and Senegal Recordings
Description: Music of Mali and Senegal, Africa. Recorded by Halim
El-Dabh, summer, 1967.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13147-13153
Title: Halim El-Dabh / Ethiopian Recordings
Description: Sacred and secular music of Ethiopia, recorded 1964 by
Halim El-Dabh.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12374-12395
Title: Judit Elek / Maramaros (Transylvanian) Chasidic Folk Music Collection
Description: Chasidic (Hasidic) songs collected in 1938-39,
in Maramaros, Hungary (presently Romania).
Inclusive Years: 1938-1939
AFC Number: AFC 1995/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Wilbert "Big Chief" Ellis Recordings
Description: One 10-inch tape of one blues song sung with piano by
Wilbert "Big Chief" Ellis, of
Montgomery, Alabama. Originally recorded on a disc in New York City, 1948.
The collection
includes seven pages of articles, correspondence, and an essay.
Inclusive Years: c.1948
Duration: 4 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17471
Title: Karen Ellis-Bell / Virgin Islands Collection
Description: "An Abridged Compilation of American Virgin Islands
Children's Songs, Chants, Circle
Games, and Elimination Games." Recorded by Karen Ellis-Bell on St.
Croix in 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22189-22190
Title: Stephanie Ellquist Black Carib Duplication Project
Description: Stories and songs recorded by Stephanie Ellquist in the
Republic of Honduras in 1971
among the Garifuna, or Black Caribs--descendents of Carib Indians and African
slaves.
Most of the music was recorded at a velorio (wake) held in Tornabe, a small
village near San Juan.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20112-20113
Title: Emancipation Celebration, 1940, at the Library of Congress
Description: Recording of the evening of Negro folk music in the Emancipation
Celebration which took
place in the Coolidge Auditorium in December, 1940. Alain Locke, Sterling
Brown, Alan
Lomax, commentators. Performers include: Golden Gate Quartet and Josh White,
performers. Recorded by Recording Laboratory.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6092-6095
Title: Duncan Emrich / Recordings of "Powder River" Jack E. Lee
Description: Four 12-inch discs of eight songs and stories sung and
spoken by "Powder River" Jack H.
Lee of Deer Lodge, Montana. Recorded in Virginia City, Nevada, by Duncan
Emrich,
September 4, 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1942
Duration: 33 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12350-12351
Title: Duncan Emrich Nevada Recording Project
Description: Oral history, traditions, way of life, etc., of Nevada.
Recorded by Duncan Emrich in the
summer of 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10011-10026
Title: The Duncan Emrich Autograph Album Collection
Description: Eighteen autograph albums, one set of loose album pages,
and one greeting card given to
the Archive by various donors. Donations were in response to a radio talk
by Duncan
Emrich, then head of the Archive. Many are from Iowa.
Inclusive Years: 1955-1956
AFC Number: AFC 1955/001
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?faid/faid:@field(TITLE+@band(emrich+duncan+))
Title: Duncan Emrich / Cowboy songs by "Powder River" Jack H.
Lee
Description: Cowboy songs by "Powder River" Jack H. Lee.
Recorded in Nevada by Duncan Emrich,
1942 [?].
Inclusive Years: 1942 [?]
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14031-14033
Title: Endangered Music Project materials
Description: Copies of materials sent to 360 Degree Productions (Mickey
Hart) for consideration for CD
releases on Rykodisc as part of the "Endangered Music Project." Notes
by Ken Bilby and
Max Derrickson. Materials from the Discoteca Publica de Sao Paulo, Tarafa
Afro-Cuban,
Liscano, Boulton Haitian, Herskovits Bahia Brazil, Hyppolite, Nikol-Smith
Surinam, Alberts
West African, Herskovits Trinidad, and Correa de Azevedo collections.
AFC Number: AFC 1999/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Endangered Music / Mickey Hart Radio Program and Interview
Description: Two audiocassettes relating to _The Spirit Cries_, including
Anne McLean's interview of
Mickey Hart (June 15, 1992). The second cassette is a radio program entitled "Endangered
Music from the New World Rain Forests" which contains examples from
the published
recording _The Spirit Cries_, and excerpts from the interview. This program
was aired over
WETA-FM (Washington, DC) on September 28, 1992. Recordings were made by
Mike
Donaldson and Larry Appelbaum of the Library of Congress, MBRS division,
and produced
by Anne McLean and Larry Appelbaum.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1996/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Stephen Erdely / Folksinging of the American Hungarians Collection
Description: Five 10-inch tapes of Hungarian-American songs recorded
in Cleveland and Shaker
Heights, Ohio. Also includes Jozsef Erdelyi playing the tarogato. Ohio,
by Stephen Erdely,
1961-65. The collection includes one-half linear inch of correspondence,
lists, and logs.
Inclusive Years: 1961-1965
Duration: 8.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22562-22566
Title: Sam Eskin Collection
Description: This collection consists of materials gathered and arranged
by Sam Eskin, an
ethnomusicologist who recorded and transcribed folk music he encountered
on his travels
across the United States and abroad. From 1938 to 1952, the majority of
Eskin’s
manuscripts and field recordings document his growing interest in the American
folk music
revival. From 1953 to 1969, the scope of the audio collection expands to include
musical
and cultural traditions from Latin America, the British Isles, the Middle East,
the Caribbean
Islands, and East Asia.
Inclusive Years: 1938-1952
AFC Number: AFC 1999/004
AFS Number: N/A
Database: Onsite access only
Title: Joel B. Espesset / La musique bluegrass aux Etats-Unis: l'evolution
d'une tradition depuis
Description: Thesis: Universite Marc Bloch de Strasbourg
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ethnic Broadcasting in America Collection
Description: Eighteen 7-inch tapes, two five-inch tapes, and one hundred
seventeen cassettes of ethnic
radio broadcasts recorded for the Ethnic Broadcasting in America Project
of the American
Folklife Center. Recorded mostly off the air by Elena Bradunas, Theodore
Grame, Alan
Jabbour, and others at various locations in the United States, 1977-78.
Documentation
includes Theodore Grame's Ethnic Broadcasting in the United States (Washington,
D.C.:
American Folklife Center, 1980; PN1991.8.E84G7) and nine linear inches
of manuscript
materials. Includes an interview of KELK station manager, Jesus Lopategui
(Basque), and
a copy of a Croatian broadcast recorded in Detroit, Michigan in 1945 (donated
by Richard
March).
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23019-23155
Title: Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project Collection
Description: Twenty-four 5-inch tapes, sixty 7-inch tapes, and two
hundred eighty-eight cassettes from
the Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project, a survey of
twenty-three
ethnic schools from twenty-two ethnic groups. Recorded in various locations
throughout the
United States by Elena Bradunas and twenty-three fieldworkers, April-July 1982,
sponsored
by the American Folklife Center. The collection includes fourteen linear feet
of slides,
photographs, and reports.
AFC Number: AFC 1993/001
AFS Number: AFS 23347-23718
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/ethnicschools.html
Title: Ethnic Recordings in America: A Neglected Heritage Conference
Description: Proceedings of the conference and concert "Ethnic
Recordings in America: A Neglected
Heritage" held January 24-26, 1977, at the Library of Congress, sponsored
by the American
Folklife Center. Speeches by Daniel Boorstin, Alan Jabbour, Pekka Gronow,
Richard
Spottswood, Geno Baroni, James S. Griffith, Robert B. Klymacz, Chris Strachwitz,
Norman
Cohen, Don Leavitt, and Joe Hickerson. Performances by Polish Highlander
Band, Zespot
Harnasi (AFS 18,938), and Lydia Mendoza (AFS 18,939).
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18931-18939
Title: Ethnographic Thesaurus Group, Second Meeting, May 11-12, 2001, Washington,
DC
Description: Recorded proceedings of the Second Meeting of the Ethnographic
Thesaurus Group.
Attending were: Catherine H. Kerst, Ellen McHale, Marsha Maguire, Moira
Smith, Michael
Taft, Margaret Yocom, Suzanne Flandreau, Stephanie Smith, Dan Gardner,
Dagobert
Soergel, Jeff Field, Michael Pahn, Natalie Kelen. Other members of the
American Folklife
Center may have attended sections of this meeting.
Inclusive Years: 2001
AFC Number: AFC 2001/010
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ethnomedicine and Handicrafts of Bengal
Description: Two publications: _Handicrafts of W. Bengal: A Retrospect_,
by Ashish Basu, Calcutta;
_Thematic Diversity & Social Implication of Bengali Riddles_, by Sila
Basak.
Inclusive Years: 1990
AFC Number: AFC 1990/028
AFS Number:
Title: Simon Evans and Julian May / "A Poor Man's Gift"
Description: Sound recording of a feature program titled "A Poor
Man's Gift" from the series
_Kaleidoscope_ (BBC), produced by Simon Evans and Julian May. The program
concerns
folk song collecting and traditional culture. Alan Jabbour took part.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1992/011
AFS Number: N/A
Title: David Evans Duplication Project
Description: Negro folk music from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia,
recorded by David Evans,
Summer 1970. Performers include: Napoleon Strickland, Othar Turner, Bernice
Turner, R.L.
Boyd, Arthur Williams, Jimmy Buford, Reid Jones, J.W. Jones, James Jones,
Ephram
Carter, Floyd Bussey, Roosevelt Holts, Eli Owens, Calvin Davis, Esau Weary,
Herb Quinn,
Bill Webb, Arzo Youngblood, Boogie Bill Webb, Robert Rucker, Harrison "Strut" Smith,
Charlie Taylor, Willis Taylor, Matt Willis, Floyd Patterson, , Jack Owens,
Benjamin "Bud"
Spires, Ada Mae Turner, Ranie Burnette, Willie Burnette, James Evans, George
Avant,
Harry Smith, Compton Jones, Dolly Mae Danne Locations: Senatobia, Crystal
Springs, and
Bentonia, Mississippi; Talbotton and Waverly Hall, Georgia; Bogalusa, Clifton,
and New
Orleans, Louisiana. Includes fife and drum music, one-string music, blues,
etc.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14488-14512
Title: David Huhn Evans, Jr. / The Blues of Tommy Johnson: A Study of a
Tradition
Description: Thesis: University of California, Los Angeles
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
F
Title: Fahnestock South Sea Collection
Description: Oceanic and Southeast Asian music from Bali, Fiji, Maruesas
Islands, etc., recorded in
1940 by the Fahnestock South Seas Expedition. Some photos by Howard Kincheloe.
Interviews with Margaret Fahnestock Lewis.
Inclusive Years: 1940s
AFC Number: AFC 1986/033
AFS Number: AFS 25808-25955; AFS 26830-26837
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/fahnestock.html
Title: Elsie Fardig / Bahamian Recordings
Description: Ring games, children's "junkanoo" band (drums,
whistle, cowbells), "Groombay Summer
Jumpin' Dance" and an interview with musician George Maxey recorded
in the Bahamas by
Elsie Fardig. Also hymns and religious music by a Bahamian Baptist church
choir
recorded by Marina McDonald.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19148-19149
Title: Farm Security Administration / American Songs Collection
Description: Multiple copies of the same songbook collection series
published by the Farm Security
Administration (FSA), Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9.
Inclusive Years: 1930s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Father Buechel Memorial Museum Collection of Lakota Recordings
Description: One 10-inch tape (copied from 6 original discs) of various
Lakota dance and feast songs.
Discs are from the Father Buechel Memorial Museum collection. The collection
includes
photocopies of the original discs and a recording log.
AFC Number: AFC 2003/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John Henry Faulk Negro Religious Services
Description: Discs are copies of originals made in various parts of
Texas by John Henry Faulk under a
grant from the Rosenwald Foundation. Includes list. Recorded July 1941.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/014
AFS Number: AFS 5168-5214
Title: John Henry Faulk Black Texas Prison Songs
Description: Records made by John Faulk in Texas, June 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6767-6776
Title: John Henry Faulk Negro Religious Music from Texas
Description: Negro church services made in August and September 1941.
Accessioned October 1941.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/015
AFS Number: AFS 5436-5477
Title: Charles Faurot Duplication Project
Description: Texas fiddle tunes, guitar tunes and other folk music
recorded 1965-1969 by Charles
Inclusive Years: 1965-1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14094-14103
Title: Charles Faurot / Interviews with Galax, Virginia Musicians
Description: Interview with and music played by Kahle Brewer, Wade
Ward, and Fields Ward, all
originally from Galax, Virginia. Interview focuses on the backgrounds of
traditional music in
the Galax area. Also two tunes played on fiddle by Alan Jabbour. Recorded for
the Archive
of Folk Song by Charles Faurot, July 4, 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
Duration: > 2 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14254-14257
Title: Federal Cylinder Project - O.G. Libby and Frances Densmore - Mandan-Hidatsa
Description: One 7-inch tape copied from twenty-one wax cylinders
of twenty-one Mandan-Hidatsa songs
sung by Black Bear, Flat Bear, Four Rings, Little Crow, Red Star, Alex
Sage, Sitting Rabbit,
Spotted Horn, and other unknown performers. Recorded in North Dakota by
Russell Reed
and O. G. Libby, August 1929, and others recorded by Frances Densmore,
ca. 1915.
Donated by the North Dakota Historical Society. The collection includes
a one-page song
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23206
Title: Federal Cylinder Project - O.G. Libby - Mandan-Hidatsa
Description: One 7-inch tape copied from eighteen wax cylinders of
eighteen Mandan-Hidatsa songs
sung by Bob Tailed Bull, Enemy Heart, David Hand, Little Soldier, Red Star,
Alex Sage,
Sitting Bear, and Standing Soldier. Recorded in North Dakota by O. G. Libby
on various
dates, 1915. Donated by the North Dakota Historical Society. The collection
includes a
one-page song list.
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23207
Title: Federal Cylinder Project / State Historical Society of North Dakota
Mandan Hidatsa
Description: Nine 7-inch tapes copied from 175 wax cylinders of Mandan-Hidatsa
music, including 141
war and dance songs from the Black Mouth Society, Buffalo Society, Creek
Woman Society,
Foolish Dog Society, Fox Society, Half Cut Society, Horse Society, and Young
Dog Society
and other songs performed by Crow's Heart, Flat Bear, Holding Eagle, Mrs. Holding
Eagle,
Little Crow, Sitting Crow, Sitting Rabbit, Spotted Weasel, Wolf Head, Wounded
Face,
Young Hawk, and numerous others. Also includes Mandan words and the narratives
of
Reverend and Mrs. C. L. Hall from early experiences at Fort Berthold. Recorded
in North
Dakota by Frances Densmore, 1912-29. The collection includes nine pages of
song lists.
Duration: 8 hrs. and 12 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21846-21854
Title: Burt Feintuch / Liam O'Flynn _Uillean Pipes and Tin Whistle_
Description: Liam O'Flynn: Uillean Pipes and Tin Whistle (FSUP-T101)
Irish instrumental music with
comment recorded and published by the Folklore Society of the University
of Pennsylvania
with extensive notes by Burt Feintuch, June 1972.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17638
Title: Burt Feintuch Northumberland Collection
Description: Musical performances by and interviews with traditional
and revivalist musicians and
instrument makers in Northumberland, England. Recorded by Burt Feintuch
in a variety of
settings in the summer of 1986. Emphasizes country dance music played on
Northumbrian
small pipes, fiddles, accordions, flutes, and mouth harps by such performers
as Forster
Charlton, Johnny Handle, Joe Hutton, Tommy Breckons, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1991/001
AFS Number:
Title: Peter Feldmann / First Monterey Folk Festival panel discussion on
the Folk Music Revival,
May 1963
Description: 1 CD-R labeled "The Folk Music 'Revival' -- A panel
discussion held at the 1st Monterey Folk
Festival, Monterey, California in May 1963." Recorded May 5, 1963, by
Peter Feldmann.
Participants included D.K. Wilgus (moderator), John Cohen, Roscoe Holcomb,
Ralph
Rinzler, Bill Monroe, Clarence "Tom" Ashley, Doc Watson, Mance Lipscomb,
Billy Ray
Laythum, and Clarence White. Includes several songs.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: AFC 2000/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: William Fenton Iroquois Recordings
Description: Records of Iroquoian songs, recorded in Northern New
York and Quebec, Canada, 1941, by
William N. Fenton. See also AFS 8042-8105. Keywords: Indian, American -
Iroquois
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 4556-4627
Title: William N. Fenton / Six Nations Reserve of Western New York and
Canada Music
Description: Eleven 7-inch tapes of Iroquoian songs recorded in New
York and on the Six Nations
Reserve, Ontario, by William M. Fenton, 1948.
Inclusive Years: 1948
Duration: 5 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9963-9973
Title: William Fenton / Iroquois Indians of Canada and Six Nations Reserve
of Western New York
Description: Records made by William N. Fenton. Songs of Iroquois
of Canada and Six Nations Reserve
of Western New York.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/010
AFS Number: AFS 8042-8105
Title: Bob Ferguson / Glacier Park Indian Disc Collection
Description: Three songs by Glacier Park Indians (Blackfoot Tribe).
Test pressings from stampers of
Victor disc 17611, which was originally recorded at Victor Studios in New
York, May 23,
1914.
Inclusive Years: 1914
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22490-22491
Title: John B. Fergusson / Greek Folk Music
Description: Greek folk music recorded at Alexandria, Egypt, by John
B. Fergusson, 1961.
Inclusive Years: 1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13722
Title: William Ferris / Mississippi Recordings
Description: Includes Negro Sacred Harp convention recorded by William
Ferris at Bellefontaie,
Mississippi, September 12-13, 1970; and prose narratives and superstitions
recorded by
James Washington and Willie Ernest Wooten, Jackson, Mississippi, November,
1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14468-14474
Title: William Ferris / Mississippi Recordings
Description: Negro folk music and folklore from Mississippi, recorded
by William R. Ferris, Jr., mostly
1967-1968. Includes blues, gospel, church services, interviews, and other
material.
Inclusive Years: 1967-1968
AFC Number: AFC 1973/005
AFS Number: AFS 15425-15454
Title: William Ferris Duplication Project
Description: Negro folk music and lore from around Vicksburg, Mississippi,
recorded by William R.
Ferris, Jr., in the 1960s.
Inclusive Years: 1960s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15102-15109
Title: Traditional Pork Processing Collection
Description: 10 file folders of clippings, correspondence, articles
and recipes; photographs and sound
recordings concerning pork processing.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/009
AFS Number: AFS 26226-26230
Title: Fiddle-L Anthology Collection, 1999
Description: Recordings of members of the Fiddle-L listserv. Accompanying
notes include background
information about the project and biographies of each fiddler compiled
from the interviews.
The project was coordinated by Chris Mabry.
Inclusive Years: 1999
AFC Number: AFC 2000/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Austin Fife Mormon Songs
Description: Seventy-eight 12-inch and nine 10-inch discs of Mormon
and other songs and stories
recorded at various locations in Utah, by Alta S. Fife, Austin E. Fife,
and Hector Lee, July
1946–April 1947. The collection includes one and one-fourth linear
inches of content lists
and correspondence.
Duration: 18 hrs. 15 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/028
AFS Number: AFS 8638-8724
Title: Austin and Alta Fife / Morman Utah Collection
Description: Nineteen 16-inch discs of African American, Anglo American,
Hopi, Mexican American,
Mormon, and Shoshone music and stories recorded in California and Utah
by Alta S. Fife,
Austin E. Fife, Martha Huot, and M.M. Keller, September 3, 1947–July
9, 1951. The
collection includes one and one-half linear inches of content lists and
correspondence.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10368-10386
Title: Utah Songs from the Austin and Alta Fife and Lester Hubbard Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of three Utah songs, "Cowboy Jack," "On
the Road to California," and
"
Mountain Meadow Massacre" by unknown performers. Duplicated from the
collections of
Alta S. and Austin E. Fife and Lester Hubbard. Donated by Hal Cannon, 1976. "Mountain
Meadows Massacre" sung by George Harter of Kahlotus, Washington and
recorded by
Joseph Tarbet, 1952, has been released by the Library on LBC9, "Songs
of Death and
Tragedy," edited by Richard K. Spottswood and Mack McCormick.
Inclusive Years: 1952
Duration: 15 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19249
Title: Austin E. Fife / Anthology of Folk Literature of Soldiers of the
Pacific Theater
Description: One linear inch of songs, poetry, and prose of soldiers
in the Pacific theater, collected by
Austin E. Fife during his two years of service in the South and Southwest
Pacific as the
military historian of the Thirteenth Air Force. Unpublished manuscript
written in July 1947.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: AFC 1947/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: "Fifty Years of Folk Festivals" NPR Broadcast
Description: A documentary on the growth of folk festivals in the
United States. Examines festival
evolution through recordings of performers, promoters, folklorists, and
festival-goers.
Narrated by Robert Monteagle, with discussants Archie Green, Alan Jabbour,
Ralph Rinzler
and Joe Wilson. Written and produced by Deborah J. Lamberton and Michael
J. Weiss of
National Public Radio (1978) as part of "Folk Festival U.S.A." series.
Tape concludes with a
program of blues piano by Big Chief Ellis.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19355
Title: David Findlay Oajna Indian Recordings
Description: Songs and music of the Oajana Indians of Paramaribo,
Surinam. List in tape box.
Keywords: Indian, Surinam - Oajana
AFC Number: AFC 1953/009
AFS Number: AFS 10763
Title: Ross Lee Finney Recordings
Description: One 7-inch tape of ten folksongs sung by Ross Lee Finney,
originally from North Dakota,
which he heard in his childhood including songs collected from John Jacob
Niles, Carl
Sandburg, and others. Recorded at the Library of Congress in Washington,
D.C., ca. 1957.
The collection includes a one-page song list.
Duration: 26 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11301
Title: Howard Finster Interview Collection
Description: Two interviews with Rev. Howard Finster, minister and
folk painter: 1) Recorded by N.
Pearson with Carl Fleischhauer and Howard Marshall at the American Folklife
Center,
January 26, 1978; includes an original song and harmonica music; 2) Conducted
by Alan
Jabbour at the American Folklife Center, June 11, 1984.
Inclusive Years: 1978, 1984
AFC Number: AFC 1984/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: First National Intercollegiate Folk Singing Competition collection
Description: One 10-inch tape of fourteen songs sung by Daniel N.
Adams, Michael Foley, Gerald E.
Parsons, and David Petzal, for the Goya Guitar Company College Folksinging
Contest.
Recorded at WRCU, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, May 25 and 27,
1961. The
collection includes four pages of song lists.
Inclusive Years: 1961
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17600
Title: Lydia M. Fish / Bull Durham Song Collection
Description: One audiocassette of songs of the Strategic Air Command
(SAC) and songs of "South East
Asia" (S.E.A.) sung by James P. "Bull" Durham with instrumental
accompaniment.
Recorded ca. 1963 and July 1, 1971. The collection includes two manuscripts: "Songs
of
SAC" (sixteen pages) and "Songs of S.E.A." (ninety-nine pages).
Duration: 1 hr. 30 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1989/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Lydia Fish and Larry Roberson / Michael Martin Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of twenty-six songs about the Vietnam
War, primarily composed and
sung with guitar by war veteran Michael Martin. Recorded in concert at
the State University
College, Buffalo, New York, by Lydia M. Fish and Larry Roberson, April
1984. The
collection includes six pages of correspondence, logs, and notes. The final
three songs
recorded April 1984 at the home of Lydia Fish in Buffalo. Notes by Larry
Roberson.
Inclusive Years: 1984
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24115-24116
Title: Lydia M. Fish / Vietnam Radio Programs Collection
Description: One audiocassette of the radio programs "All Things
Considered" (broadcast on National
Public Radio, November 11, 1987) and "Rethinking Vietnam" (broadcast
on Radio
Smithsonian, 1988) that discuss the importance of radio and popular music
to soldiers
during the Vietnam War, as well as how folk music served as a medium for
soldiers to
share their experiences during and after the war. Donated by Lydia M. Fish.
The collection
includes a one-page description. Side A: Copy of feature story on American
Forces Radio
and pirate programming in Vietnam, which was broadcast Nov. 11, 1987, on
National
Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Side B: Radio Smithsonian
broadcast 945
[broadcast January 1988]. Features piece on restoration of the Enola Gay
and Smithsonian
adult education course "Rethinking Vietnam," focusing on songs
by American troops.
[Includes music from the Lansdale collection, AFS 17,483 and 18,882.]
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: AFC 1988/005
AFS Number:
Title: Middlebury College / Helen Hartness Flanders Collection, Part II:
Discs
Description: Folk music (primarily ballads) and interviews with various
informants. Recorded in New
England, especially Vermont, and Canada by Helen Hartness Flanders and
Marguerite
Olney, ca 1939-1948. Copied from approximately 1275 discs loaned by Middlebury
College.
Inclusive Years: 1939-1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21988-22050
Title: Middlebury College / Helen Hartness Flanders Duplication Project,
Part I: Audiotapes
Description: Tapes: Folk music and interviews recorded by Mrs. Hartness
Flanders primarily in New
England (esp. Vermont) 1949-58.
Inclusive Years: 1949-1958
Duration: 10 min. on AFS 19,280
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19268-19280
Title: Helen H. Flanders Lecture on New England Balladry
Description: Recordings of an illustrated talk in Coolidge Auditorium
by Helen Hartness Flanders on
New England Balladry, February 27, 1948. Keyword: Vermont
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: AFC 1948/001
AFS Number: AFS 9127-9131
Title: Helen Hartness Flanders / New England Recordings
Description: Record made by Helen Hartness Flanders. Sent to the Library
in December 1942. Includes
"Johnny Scott," sung by Jonathan Moses in New Hampshire.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6741
Title: Sen. E. and Helen Hartness Flanders Vermont Folksongs
Description: Songs, poetry, recitations and speeches by Senator Ralph
E. and Mrs. Helen Hartness
Flanders of Vermont.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18722
Title: Carl Fleischhauer / Hammons Family 1973-1978 Collection
Description: Twenty-five 7-inch tapes, one 5-inch tape, and two cassettes
of instrumentals, songs, and
stories performed, spoken, and sung with banjo, fiddle, and fiddlesticks
by the Hammons
family of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and Dona Hammons Gum and Grover
Cleveland "Ham" Gum, of Mill Creek, West Virginia. Recorded by
Carl Fleischhauer and Jan
Hurst, March 24, 1973-May 27, 1977. The collection includes eight linear
inches of
ephemera and manuscripts, and seven black-and-white photographs. Also includes
a copy
of Louis I. Chap disc.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1978
AFC Number: AFC 1985/018
AFS Number:
Title: Carl Fleischhauer / Hammons Family Recollections Collection
Description: One cassette of an interview with Carl Fleischhauer concerning
his fieldwork with the
Hammons family of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Conducted and recorded
by Gerald
E. Parsons at the Library of Congress, July 13, 1978. The collection includes
four pages of
lists and a photocopy of the cassette label.
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 10 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22158
Title: Carl Fleischhauer and Dwight Diller West Virginia Recordings
Description: Thirteen 7-inch and twenty-two 5-inch tapes of instrumentals,
songs, and stories performed
with banjo and fiddle, spoken, and sung by William Moses "Mose" Coffman
and the
Hammons family. Recorded in Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties, West Virginia,
by
Dwight Diller and Carl Fleischhauer, October 23, 1970-February 2, 1972.
The collection
includes one linear inch of logs.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1972
Duration: Eight hours
AFC Number: AFC 1973/007
AFS Number: AFS 15529-15563
Title: Carl Fleischhauer / Melvin Wine Collection
Description: Mainly concerned with Melvin Wine, but also contains
materials on Jean Ritchie of Viper,
Kentucky; black banjo player Clarence Tross of Hardy County, West Virginia;
Senator
Robert C. Byrd of Raleigh County, West Virginia; the Black Mountain Bluegrass
Boys of
Pocahontas County, West Virginia; Andrew J. Boarman of Berkeley County,
West Virginia;
the origins of the fiddle tune, "Elzick's Farewell;" and the
John Henry Memorial Foundation.
This collection supplements a variety of recordings and other formats contributed
in
previous years by Fleischhauer.
Inclusive Years: 1971-1982
AFC Number: AFC 1996/072
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Carl Fleischhauer Publications and Ephemera Collection
Description: Articles, advertisements, calendars and other materials
relating to bluegrass and country
and western music. Also includes: 1 box containing 2 T-shirts and 2 buttons,
1 souvenier
T-shirt from John Henry Folk Festival from 1975 or 1976.
AFC Number: AFC 1987/024
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Carl Fleischhauer / Hammons Family Photo Collection
Description: Black-and-white photos of the Hammons family, Marlinton,
West Virginia, by Carl
Fleischhauer.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1970-1973
AFC Number: AFC 1973/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Carl Fleischhauer / Hammons Family Duplication Project
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of instrumentals, songs, and stories
performed on banjo and fiddle,
spoken, and sung by members of the Hammons family. Recorded in Pocahontas
County,
West Virginia, by Carl Fleischhauer, May 5, 1973. The collection includes
two pages of a
concordance and list.
Inclusive Years: 1973
Duration: 3 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15595-15596
Title: Carl Fleischhauer / Miscellaneous Recordings
Description: Three 5-inch tapes, seventeen 7-inch tapes, and three
cassettes of interviews, songs, and
stories performed, spoken, and sung with banjo, fiddle, and guitar by various
artists.
Recorded primarily in West Virginia, April 30, 1968 August 28, 1976. Donated
by Carl
Fleischhauer. Includes Everett Lily interview; Doc White interview; AA
cutters 1973 of West
Virginia; Dwight Diller, 1971; Ward Jarvis, 1974; Bill Iman, 1975; Reed
Family, 1976; John
Henry Folk Festival West Virginia, 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1968-1976
AFC Number: AFC 1989/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Carl Fleischhauer / West Virginia and Ohio Folk Music
Description: Two 7-inch and four 5-inch tapes of instrumentals and
interviews recorded in Ohio and
West Virginia by Carl Fleischhauer and others, February 15, 1973 April
6, 1974. The
collection includes twenty-two pages of concordances, correspondence, and
lists.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17014-17019
Title: Alice Fletcher Plains Indian Music on Cylinders
Description: Nineteen 10-inch tapes of North American Plains Indian
music originally recorded on
cylinders in the Midwest and Washington, D.C., by Alice Cunningham Fletcher,
1896-1905.
Transferred from the National Archives, 1948.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20308-20326
Title: Florida Folklife Program / Boat Tour Guides Collection
Description: Interviews and narratives by boat tour guides George
Bowers, Donald "Frog" Edwards,
Wilbert Gavin, Tommy "Hawk" Jackson, and James A. Moretz. Recorded
by Ormond Loomis
and Doris Dyen of the Florida Folklife Program at Wakulla Springs, Florida,
November 8-9,
1980.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22501; 22512
Title: Florida Home Radio Series
Description: Six 60-minute radio programs exploring various aspects
of Florida folklife: "Humorists and
Health Evangelists," "Showtown, USA," "I Started with
the Blues," "Sauna and Sisu," "The
Music You Have Inside," "Everyday Treasure." Broadcast on
WJCT-FM, Stereo 90,
Jacksonville, Florida. Made possible by the National Endowment for the
Arts.
AFC Number: AFC 1988/012
AFS Number: AFS 26043-26048
Title: Florida WPA Recordings
Description: Recordings made in Florida at Seminole Indian Reservation
near Brighton, Glades County,
Sebring, Highlands County, Caruja Ranch near Kenansville, Osceola County,
Tarpon
Springs, March-July 1940.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3881-3902
Title: Thomas J. Floyd / Mr. And Mrs. Spearman Lancaster Duplication Project
Description: Stories, songs, and recitations by Mr. and Mrs. Spearman
Lancaster, Rock Point, Maryland.
Recorded April 24, 1971, by Thomas Jerry Floyd.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14583
Title: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis Conference Collection
Description: Documentation of the "Folk Heritage Collections
in Crisis Conference," held December 1-2,
2002 at the Library of Congress and sponsored by the American Folklife
Center and
American Folklore Society.
Inclusive Years: 2000
AFC Number: AFC 2000/022
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Folk Legacy Duplication Project
Description: Lee Monroe Presnell of Beech Mountain, North Carolina,
ca. 1961 by Paul Clayton, Diane
Hamilton, and Liam Clancy. Ollie Ward, Abe Trivett, Will Harmon, and Clyde
Reese
recorded 1963 and 1964 by Sandy Paton, Lee B. Haggerty, and Henry Felt
for Folk-Legacy
Records, Inc.
Inclusive Years: 1961, 1963, 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14584-14585
Title: Folk Legacy Records Duplication Project
Description: Thirteen 10-inch tapes of folksongs performed by various
folksingers. Recorded in
Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Missouri, New Brunswick, New York, North
Carolina,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Vermont by Lee B. Haggerty, Charles "Sandy" Paton,
and others
for Folk-Legacy Records, Inc., 1958-69.
Inclusive Years: 1958-1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14204-14216
Title: Folk Masters / American Roots Fourth of July 1994 Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of portions of the second annual American
Roots Fourth of July
concert hosted by Georges Collinet and Nick Spitzer. Performers include
the ReBirth Brass
Band, a New Orleans Jazz band; Edwin Colon Zayas y Familia Colon, a Puerto
Rican jibaro
band from Orocovis, Puerto Rico; the Akwesasne Mohawk Singers, a Native
American group
from the North American Indian Traveling College near Hogansburg, New York;
the
Johnson Mountain Boys, bluegrass performers from the Washington, DC area; and
Steve
Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Cajun musicians from Louisiana. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., at the Sylvan Theater (near the Washington Monument), July 4, 1994. Sponsored
by
Folk Masters, the National Council for the Traditional Arts, National Park
Service, National
Public Radio, and Radio Smithsonian. The collection includes twenty-nine pages
of
correspondence and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1994
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1996/011
AFS Number: N/A
Title: "A Folk Music Portrait of Elvis Presley"
Description: Radio broadcast on WFUV-FM New York, May 1978. Documents
traditional aspects of
Presley's life and musical performance.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19879-19880
Title: "Folk Music of the South" Radio Program
Description: Copy of two radio programs (March 14, 1934 and March
21, 1934). Featuring John Powell
and George Pullen Jackson. See also LWO 4996 for the March 7, 1934, program
in the
same series.
Inclusive Years: 1934
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14569
Title: Folklife Programming and Resources in Connecticut: A Preliminary
Survey and
Recommendations
Description: Results of a preliminary survey to determine folklife
holdings of a select group of
Connecticut institutions. Contained in the 26 folders is information from
the Connecticut
Arts Council, Bruce Museum, Fairfield Historical Society, Litchfield Historical
Society,
Mystic Seaport Museum, New Canaan Historical Society, New Haven Colony
Historical
Society, New London County Historical Society, Noah Webster House, River
Museum at
Steamboat Dock, Stamford Historical Society, Wadsworth Atheneum, and Yale
University
Art Gallery. Fldr 1: Inventory. Fldr 2: Mailing List. Fldr 3: Sample Mailing.
Fldr 4:
Connecticut Arts Council. Fldr 5: Contacts. Fldr 6: American Indian Archaelogical
Institute. Fldr 6A: Antiquarian and Landmarks Society Fldr 7: The Bruce
Museum. Fldr 8:
Connecticut Afro-American Society Fldr 8A: Connecticut Historical Society
Fldr 8B:
Danbury Scott-Fanton Museum. Fldr 8C: Florence Griswold Museum. Fldr 8D:
Fairfield
Historical Society Fldr 9: Goshen Historical Society Museum. Fldr 9A: Historical
Society
of Glastonbury. Fldr 10: Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich. Fldr
10A: Litchfield
Historical Society Fldr 10B: Lyman Allyn Museum. Fldr 11: Mattatuck Museum.
Fldr 12:
Monroe Historical Society Fldr 13: Museum of Art, Science & Industry.
Fldr 14: Mystic
Seaport Museum. Fldr 15: New Haven Colony Historical Society Fldr 15A:
New London
County Historical Society Fldr 15B: Noah Webster House. Fldr 16: Noank
Historical
Society Fldr 17: River Museum at Steamboat Dock. Fldr 18: Slater Memorial
Museum. Fldr
19: Stamford Historical Society Fldr 20: Stone Soup. Fldr 20A: Tantaquidgeon
Indian
Museum. Fldr 20B: Torrington Historical Soc. Fldr 21: Wadsworth Atheneum.
Fldr 22:
Wethersfield Hist Soc. Fldr 22A: Wilton Heritage Museum. Fldr 23: Yale
University Art
Gallery. Fldr 24: Negative Responses. Fldr 25: Summary Report. Fldr 26:
Folklife Center
News article ms.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1987/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Folklife Study in the Soviet Union
Description: Discussion held in the West Dining Room of the Library
of Congress on Tuesday, Oct. 15,
1991, 4-6 p.m. Three Russian folklorists accompanied by a translator and
by Andrew Wiget
spoke on the status and directions of Russian folklore research and education.
Inclusive Years: 1991
AFC Number: AFC 1991/046
AFS Number:
Title: Basil Fomeen Collection
Description: Two-manual 120-bass piano accordion from the Basil Fomeen
Collection acquired by the
Library of Congress in June of 1983 after Fomeen's death. Fomeen was a
Russian-born
composer, accordionist, and orchestra leader who performed in both mainstream
and
Russian emigre communities of York City and the eastern seaboard between
the 1920s and
the 1950s, recording for the RCA Victor, Standard, Seva, National, and Decca
labels. The
collection, which included sheet music and music manuscripts, photographs,
diaries,
scrapbooks, correspondence, and instruments, was dispersed to the Music, Recorded
Sound, and Motion Picture divisions within the Library of Congress. The Archive
of Folk
Culture retained only the accordion.
Inclusive Years: c.1920s-1950s
AFC Number: AFC 1983/013
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Michelle Forner / Promenade through the Stacks: Dance Collections
in the Archive of Folk
Culture
Description: Lecture in American Folklife Center's _Notes from the
Field_ series titled "Promenade
through the Stacks: Dance Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture" presented
by Michelle
Forner, Dance Archivist, Dance Heritage Coalition Access Project, June
28, 1996.
Inclusive Years: 1996
AFC Number: AFC 1996/082
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Charles Foster Collection
Description: Oral history of Charles Foster, who wrote a book regarding
that Florida WPA projects which
provided information on some of the performers in the Archive of Folk Culture'
Florida WPA
online presentation (in American Memory). The videotapes come from an interview
with
Foster and Stetson Kennedy. Photographs and manuscripts cover Foster's
work in the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works of Art Project, Florida
Federal Art Project,
and National Youth Administration, 1934-1942.
Inclusive Years: 1934-1942; 2000
AFC Number: AFC 2000/010
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ruth Fouche / Music of Puerto Rico
Description: Three 10-inch discs and one 6-inch disc of songs recorded
in Puerto Rico and donated by
Ruth Fouché in June 1955.
Duration: 25 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10915-10918
Title: Four Freedoms Quartet Recordings
Description: Two 16-inch discs of songs sung by the Four Freedoms
Quartet of the Army Specialized
Training Program at Georgetown University. Recorded at the Library of Congress
by B. A.
Botkin, John Langenegger, and Arthur Semmig, November 13, 1943. Recorded
through the
courtesy of Dr. Gosovski.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/007
AFS Number: AFS 7060-7061
Title: Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling Video Collection
Description: 360 hours of recordings on 360 video compact discs (VCDs)
of storytelling recorded by Dr.
Vibeke Børdahl in Yangzhou region of China. This collection is the
result of the project,
“
Large-scale Registration of Chinese Storytelling” 2001-2003, during
which time four
masters of Yangzhou storytelling (Yangzhou pinghua) had their full repertoires
filmed on
video and archived on VCD. The four masters are Dai Buzhang of the Dai
school of Journey
to the West, Fei Zhengliang of the Wu school of Three Kingdoms, Gao Zaihua
of the Kan
school of Three Kingdoms, and Ren Jitang of the Wang school of Water Margin.
In
addition, there is a medium-length repertoire, Emperor Qian Long Goes South
also told by
Ren Jitang. The collection is accompanied by the book, "Four Masters of
Chinese
Storytelling: Full-Length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video," which
serves as a
guide and a catalog to the collection.
Inclusive Years: 2001-2003
AFC Number: AFC 2004/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Edith Fowke / Songs from the United States Collected in Canada
Description: Folksongs of American origin, recorded in Canada by Edith
Fowke, 1957 and 1962.
Inclusive Years: 1957, 1962
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13048-13049
Title: Fox Hollow Folk Festival, 1967
Description: Fifty-two 7-inch tapes of announcements, instrumentals,
songs, and stories performed at
the Fox Hollow Folk Festival. Recorded in Petersburg, New York, by John
R. Dildine and
others, August 1967. The collection includes one-eighth linear inch of
song lists and
notes. [See also: AFS 17,404-439 and 17,487-494, 1969 Fox Hollow Festival;
and AFS
18,004-18,050, 1968 Fox Hollow Festival]
Inclusive Years: 1967
Duration: 26 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17053-17104
Title: Fox Hollow Folk Festival, 1969, Part I
Description: Thirty-six 7-inch tapes of the 1969 Fox Hollow Folk Festival,
Part I. Recorded in
Petersburgh, New York by John Dildine and others, August 1969. [See also:
AFS
17,053-17,104 and 17487-17494]
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17404-17439
Title: Fox Hollow Folk Festival, 1968
Description: One 10-inch, forty-four 7-inch, and two 5-inch tapes
of announcements, instrumentals,
songs, and stories performed at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival. Recorded
in Petersburg, New
York, by John R. Dildine and others, August 1968. The collection includes
eighteen pages
of recording logs.
Inclusive Years: 1968
Duration: 24 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18004-18050
Title: Fox Hollow Folk Festival, 1969, Part II
Description: Eight 7-inch tapes of the 1969 Fox Hollow Folk Festival,
Part II. Recorded in Petersburgh,
New York, by John Dildine and others, August 1969. [See also: AFS 17,053-17,104
and
17404-17439]
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17487-17494
Title: Foxfire Calendars, 1980-1984
Description: The calendars contain information on Appalachian agricultural
methods, foodways,
material culture.
Inclusive Years: 1980-1984
AFC Number: AFC 1984/028
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Foxfire Duplication Project Part 1
Description: Interviews with residents of Rabun County, Georgia, and
neighboring regions, made
between 1970 and 1973, by students in the Foxfire project. Topics include
agriculture,
animals, community culture, crafts, foodways, gardening, legends, medicine,
music,
railroads, religion, tales, and wild plants. Included are interviews with
Aunt Arie Carpenter
and potter Lanier Meaders.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21866-21950
Title: Foxfire String Band Collection
Description: Music by the Foxfire String Band of Rabun County, Georgia,
including Dean English on
banjo, Wayne Gipson with vocals, Mike Hamilton and Steve McCall on guitar,
Tom Nixon on
mandolin, and George Reynolds on bass; recorded in 1982 and 1983. One of the
cassettes is a recording of the group's performance at the Grand Ole Opry in
Nashville,
Tennessee, on September 24, 1983.
Inclusive Years: 1982-1983
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22187-22188
Title: Leo Joachim Frachtenberg Northwest Coast Indian Music
Description: One 10-inch tape of nineteen songs of the Kalapuya, eleven
songs of the Shasta,
twenty-four songs of the Tututni, and three songs of the Upper Umpqua tribes.
Originally
recorded on cylinders in Siletz, Oregon, by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg, 1915-16.
Inclusive Years: 1916-1917 (?)
Duration: 1 hr. 10 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18471
Title: Fraktur: American Folklife Center Lecture and Demonstration on the
Pennsylvania German
Folk Art and Illuminating Manuscripts, Dec. 11, 1986
Description: Lecture by folklorist Don Yoder and demonstration by
Paul Connor, presentation by Alan
Jabbour, in the Mumford Room, Dec. 11, 1986. Lecture on origin, history,
and symbolism of
fraktur.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1990/009
AFS Number: AFS 27018
Title: Simon Fraser Cape Breton Musicians Collection
Description: The following musicians are represented playing traditional
Cape Breton music in their
homes: Loretta Beaudry, Pat Cormier, Gordon Cote, Paul Cranford, Mary Gillis,
Jerry
Holland, Mildred Leadbeater, Sandy MacDonald, Dan Joe MacInnis, George
MacInnis, Dave
MacIssac, Alex Francis MacKay, Carl MacKenzie, Hector MacKenzie, John Neil
MacLean,
Donald MacLellan, Ronald MacLellan, Doug MacPhee, John Shaw, Sonny Slade.
The
music is played on violin, piano, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and tin whistle.
There are also
examples of singing. There is no list of the titles of the tunes and songs.
AFC Number: AFC 1983/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Daniel Fusfeld / "Union Voices: A Musical History of the American
Labor Movement"
broadcasts
Description: Five cassettes containing 26 fifteen-minute radio broadcasts
from Fusfeld's series titled
"
Union Voices: A Musical History of the American Labor Movement," originally
broadcast in
1965-1966.
Inclusive Years: 1965-1966
AFC Number: AFC 1999/012
AFS Number: N/A
G
Title: May Gadd Recording Project
Description: One 10-inch tape of an interview with May Gadd, Director-Emerita
of the Country Dance and
Song Society of America of New York City. Recorded at Pinewoods Camp, Buzzard's
Bay,
Massachusetts, by Joseph C. Hickerson, August 22-23, 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1973/024
AFS Number: AFS 16980
Title: Robert Gahtan / Boston Broadsides Songbook
Description: Includes songs cut out from Boston Broadsides and other
publications of folk music. Date
unknown.
AFC Number: AFC 1978/009
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Susan L. Garber / The Sacred Harp Revival in New England: Its Singers
and Singings
Description: Thesis: Wesleyan University
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jim Garland / Barbara Dane Collection
Description: One cassette of five songs composed and sung with guitar
by Jim Garland of Arjay,
Kentucky, and one song sung by a Western Kentucky coal miner. Recorded
in 1977. The
collection includes three pages of notes, a song list, and a transcription.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24260
Title: Edna Garrdio / Dominican Republic Recordings
Description: Folk songs recorded for the Dominican Government by Edna
Garrido, 1947-48. Dominican
Republic. List in Project folder. Duplicated through the auspices of Prof.
and Mrs. Ralph
Steele Boggs.
Inclusive Years: 1947-1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9362-9400
Title: John Garst Duplication Project
Description: Copies of recordings loaned by John Garst including ballads
and songs; instrumental
pieces on banjo, fiddle, and guitar; and spiritual, gospel, shaped-note,
and unison hymn
singing. Performers include Doc Watson, Frank Proffitt, the Sea Island
Singers, Bascom
Lamar Lunsford, and Ernest Hodges, from North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi,
and
Alabama. Originals recorded by John Garst, T. Walsh, William H. Koon, R.
A. Stewart, and
various media studios.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19100-19121
Title: Dorothy Gaus / Seneca Indian Social Dance Songs
Description: Twenty-four 10-inch tapes of Seneca social dance songs
recorded at the Allegheny
Reservation, New York, by Dorothy Gaus, 1962-63. The collection includes
one linear inch
of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1962-1963
Duration: 48 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1972/013
AFS Number: AFS 14698-14721
Title: Homer Gayne / Guianese Music
Description: Songs of British Guiana, recorded April 1965, by various
Guianese for Mr. Kenneth Bache,
Public Affairs Officer, USIA.
Inclusive Years: 1965
Duration: 33:11
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12438
Title: Collection of Lawrence Gellert: Negro Songs of Protest
Description: _Collection of Lawrence Gellert: Negro Songs of Protest_.
Timely Records T1-112. Title List on Label.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: 14301
Title: Alice Gerrard / Tommy Jarrell Duplication Project
Description: Recordings of Tommy Jarrell, Southern Appalachian musician,
playing solo and with
friends in his home in Mt. Airy, North Carolina and at dances and parties
in the community.
Recorded by Alice Gerrard between 1976 and 1979. Jarrell conducts a few
fiddle lessons,
performs a few selections on banjo, and participates in storytelling.
Inclusive Years: 1976-1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20172-20183
Title: John Gillespie / Coptic Mass
Description: Coptic mass recorded ca. 1969 in Egypt by John Gillespie.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14191-14198
Title: Les Gilliam Collection
Description: Two undated (ca. 1990s) videorecordings of narratives
and songs performed by Les Gilliam,
the "Oklahoma Balladeer." The video, "Cowboy Hit Parade," features
ten popular cowboy
songs (37 min.). The video, "Oklahoma Pride," contains country and
western songs of well
known Oklahoma natives such as Woody Guthrie, Gene Autry, Bob Wills, and others
(50
min.). Also included are photographs of Les Gilliam and his Silverlake Band,
lists of songs
performed on the videorecordings, and a brochure.
Inclusive Years: circa 1990's
AFC Number: AFC 1999/009
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Paul Gilson Interview of Duncan Emrich
Description: One 16-inch disc of an interview with Duncan Emrich conducted
by Paul Gilson for French
broadcast (interview in French). Recorded in the Recording Laboratory of
the Library of
Congress, c. 1948. The collection includes a log.
Inclusive Years: c. 1948
AFC Number: AFC 1948/033
AFS Number: AFS 8765
Title: Howard T. Glasser Collection of Carnegie Ceilidh and Kingston Ceilidh
Ephemera
Description: Posters, notices of newspaper stories, etc. concerning
the Carnegie (Pittsburgh) and
Kingston (Rhode Island) Ceilidhs.
The Carnegie Ceilidh was founded in 1961 by Howard T. Glasser in Pittsburgh
and was
known as Carnegie Ceilidh Folk Music Society. Programs, featuring Pete
Seeger, Doc
Watson, Norman Kennedy, and others, use the name Carnegie Ceilidh of Carnegie
Institute
of Technology, or just Carnegie Ceilidh in 1965. Some programs were presented
in
conjunction with the Pittsburgh Folklore Society, which Glasser served as program
director
(1966-1968). In 1969 Glasser began teaching at the University of Rhode Island
in Kingston,
and founded the Kingston Ceilidh Folk Music Workshop there. The collection
consists of
program flyers, tickets, posters designed by Glasser, and clippings.
Inclusive Years: 1961-1970
AFC Number: AFC 1970/011
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Howard Glasser / Dave Magram Duplication Project
Description: Four 10-inch tapes of instrumentals and songs recorded
in Virginia and West Virginia by
Dave Magram, August 22-29 and October 15, 1966. Duplicated from tapes loaned
by
Howard Glasser. The collection includes eleven pages of fieldnotes, lists,
and tape
concordances.
Inclusive Years: 1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14577-14580
Title: Howard Glasser / Scotland Duplication Project
Description: Ballads and songs recorded in Scotland, summer 1963,
by Howard Glasser.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14581-14582
Title: Lester Smallwood Recordings
Description: Lester Smallwood of Gainsville, Georgia, with banjo,
recorded by Jeff Glasserow, WGTV,
University of Georgia, Athens March 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 8 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17013
Title: Henry Glassie / Ola Belle Reed and Family Recordings
Description: Country music played on fiddle, banjo, guitar, and dobro
by Ola Belle Reed and family of
North Carolina, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Recorded in 1966 and 1967 by
Henry Glassie.
Inclusive Years: 1966-1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18883-18890
Title: Henry Glassie / Folk Music Recordings
Description: Folk music recorded mostly in Virginia, North Carolina,
and Pennsylvania by Henry Glassie,
1961-1967. Performers include Ola Belle Reed, Hobart Smith, N. T. [Nathan
Tab] Ward,
and Ruby Bowman Plemmons.
Inclusive Years: 1961-1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19713-19726
Title: Tom Glazer and Laura Freedman / African-American Childrens' Songs
Collection
Description: Eighteen schoolyard songs sung by elementary school children
from Roxbury,
Massachusetts. The songs were recorded by school teacher Laura Freedman
in 1972, and
donated to the Archive by Tom Glazer.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1997/019
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Joe Glazer / "8 New Songs for Labor" Collection
Description: This is a taped copy of an album originally released
by the CIO Department of Education
and Labor, Washington, DC, possibly in 1950. Songs on the tape are: "I
Ain't No Stranger
Now," "Too Old to Work," "That's All," "Humblin'
Back," "Shine on Me," "We Will Overcome,"
"
Great Day," "The Mill Was Made of Marble." All songs are
sung by Joe Glazer. This tape
was duplicated from the original album on July 31, 1996.
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/074
AFS Number: N/A
Title: The Goathland, North Yorkshire, Sword Dance Photograph Collection
Description: Photographs of the Plough Stotts Long Sword team from
Goathland, North Yorkshire,
England ca. 1912-1950. The team was one of the longest running without
a break. Candid
shots and formal poses offer a sense of costuming and physical culture
associated with
Morris dance such as long swords and musical instruments.
Inclusive Years: 1912-1950
AFC Number: AFC 1983/007
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/goathland.html
Title: Golden Gate Quartet
Description: This program of black American folk song was part of
a series of events--symposia,
concerts, and exhibits here at the Library of Congress to commemorate the
75th Anniversary
of the Emancipation Proclamation. Sterling Brown and Alan Lomax are commentating.
The
program was a 1990 re-broadcast of a 1940 production.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Connie Goldman / "Horizons: The Grand Generation Collection
Description: National Public Radio Program containing performances
and interviews with elderly artists
at the Smithsonian Institution's 1984 Festival of American Folklife. Commentary
by Gene
Bluestein, California State University at Fresno. Interviewees include
Mayer and Doris
Kirshenblatt, storytellers from Ontario, Canada; Estelle Oozevaseuk, Yupik
Eskimo
storyteller from Alaska; Rev. Daniel Womack, musician and preacher from
Roanoke,
Virginia; Kaui Zuttermeister, hula dancer from Oahu, Hawaii; Wade Mainer
(banjo) and Julia
Mainer (guitar) from Flint, Michigan; and Tommy Jarrell, fiddler from Mt. Airy,
North Carolina.
Inclusive Years: 1984
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23719
Title: Kenneth S. Goldstein / North and South Carolina Recordings
Description: Folksongs and instrumental music recorded in Asheville,
North Carolina and South
Carolina, by Kenneth S. Goldstein, 1957. Includes Bascom Lamar Lunsford,
Marcus Martin,
Artus Moser, Mrs. Maud Long, and Freda English, Nathaniel Thackston.
Inclusive Years: 1957
Duration: 5.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14768-14770
Title: Kenneth S. Goldstein / Sara Cleveland
Description: Seven 10-inch tapes of two hundred and six songs and
stories, sung and spoken, primarily
by Sara Cleveland of Brant Lake, New York. Recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
by
Kenneth S. Goldstein, March 9-April 7, 1968. The collection includes one-fourth
linear inch
of a concordance and recording logs.
Inclusive Years: 1968
Duration: 14 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14755-14761
Title: Maggie F. Gomillion / Religious Songs
Description: Religious songs sung by Maggie F. Gomillion, originally
from Saluda, South Carolina.
Recorded by Mrs. Samuel H. Horne, Silver Spring, Maryland, November 1964.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12319
Title: Maggie Gomillion Recordings Collection
Description: Religious songs sung by Maggie F. Gomillion originally
of Saluda, South Carolina.
Recorded at the Library of Congress in Studio A, January 7, 1965 by Rae
Korson and John
Inclusive Years: 1965
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12296
Title: Hal Goodman Singing American Folk Songs
Description: Two 16 inch discs of Hal Goodman singing American folk
songs. Recorded at the Library of
Congress in the Recording Lab, ca. 1952. The collection includes a recording
log.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1952
Duration: 12 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10387-10388
Title: Frank and Elizabeth Goodwyn Interview Collection
Description: Frank Goodwyn sang cowboy songs for John and Ruby Lomax
in 1939. As part of the
process of presenting the material from that Lomax trip on-line (National
Digital Library
Project), David Taylor and Rachel Howard interviewed Frank and Elizabeth
Goodwyn at their
home in Silver Spring, Maryland, on April 29, 1999. The Goodwyns spoke
of the Lomaxes
as well as about J. Frank Dobie. Now retired from the Spanish Dept. at
the University of
Maryland, Frank Goodwyn was raised on the King Ranch in Texas and spoke
as well about
ranching life.
Inclusive Years: 1999
AFC Number: AFC 1999/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Martin Gordon and Ron Lesser / Interview and Fiddling by "Fiddlin'
Charlie" Chas. A. Waer
Description: One 10-inch tape of an interview and fiddling by Charles
A. "Fiddlin' Charlie" Waer, the
"
Native Son of Kansas." Recorded in Whittier, California, by Martin
Gordon and Ron Lesser,
July 1963 [or August 27, 1963?].
Inclusive Years: 1963
Duration: 50 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13720
Title: Robert W. Gordon Disc Recordings
Description: Two 12-inch, twenty-four 10-inch, forty-three 8-inch,
one 7 1/2-inch, three 7-inch, and
twenty-two 6-inch discs of air checks, hymns, letters, sea shanties, songs,
voice tests, and
other material recorded at the Library of Congress and elsewhere by Robert
Winslow
Gordon, 1929-32. The collection includes three linear inches of manuscripts
and newspaper clippings.
Inclusive Years: 1929-1932
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13577-13671
Title: Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection
Description: Tape duplication of 825 cylinder recordings made by Robert
Winslow Gordon between 1922
and 1928 in California, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and West
Virginia. Represents a cross section of American folk song including Negro
blues,
spirituals, and ballads, British-American ballads, gospel singing, sea chanties,
recitations,
and miscellaneous recordings such as the inauguration of President Coolidge.
Singers
include Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Nellie Galt, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1922-1928
AFC Number: AFC 1928/002
AFS Number: AFS 18994-19012
Title: Alan Govenar / "Portraits of Community: The Texas African-American
Photography
Collection"
Description: Lecture titled "Portraits of Community: The Texas
African-American Photography
Collection" delivered by Alan Govenar, September 27, 1996.
Inclusive Years: 1996
AFC Number: AFC 1996/084
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Michael A. Gowan / Colorado Dutch Hop Collection
Description: Thirty 7-inch tapes and two cassettes of Dutch Hop instrumentals
and songs performed by
nine Volga German bands. Recorded in Colorado by Michael A. Gowan, October
1986 May
1987. The collection includes fifty pages of brochures, correspondence,
lists, and
summaries. Dutch Hop is music and dance found only in Northeastern Colorado,
Western
Kansas, and Nebraska, practiced by the Volga Germans, who settled in the
area in the
1870s. Funded by the Colorado Council on the Arts & Humanities and
the National
Endowment for the Arts. Project Director: Michael Gowan. Published cassette
and brochure
sponsored by the Music Association of Swallow Hill, Denver, Colorado.
Inclusive Years: 1986-1987
Duration: 15 hrs.
AFC Number: AFC 1988/020
AFS Number:
Title: "Percy Grainger and Folk Music" Collection
Description: One cassette containing a progam entitled "Percy
Grainger and Folk Music" by Danny
Spooner for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, postmarked "23
MR 83." Spooner (a
leading Australian folk singer) compiled the program on the life of Grainger
and his
involvement in English folksong collecting (first to use recording machine
in England, over
objections of the Folk Song Society). Three cuts from his English cylinders
made in
Lincolnshire (Joseph Taylor on 2), plus contemporary performances of folksongs
and of
Grainger's folksong arrangements. Story of "Country Gardens," a
tune collected by Cecil
Sharp, who refused the royalties Grainger got from his setting.
Inclusive Years: pre-1983
AFC Number: AFC 1983/014
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ted Grame and Kathy Monahan Recordings
Description: A collection of ethnic and religious recordings (78 reel-to-reel
tapes) made by Ted Grame
and Kathy Monahan. Most of the recordings were made in and around Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The collection includes liturgical recordings from Gaelic,
Ukranian, Greek,
and Rumanian Byzantine masses. Additionally, there are recordings of Tamburitza
music,
highland games, Hasidic music, Hindu chants, and various folk festivals.
Inclusive Years: 1974-1976
AFC Number: AFC 2001/031
AFS Number: N/A
Database: GrameMonahanSound.mdb (onsite only)
Title: Gran Sociedad Cultural de Amigo Aztecas / Spanish and Aztec Texts
Description: Fifteen 12-inch discs of Aztekatl (Aztec) / Spanish language
lessons, including a
transcription by Juan Luna Cardenas, published by the Gran Sociedad Cultural
de Amigos
Aztecas, Mexico City. Transferred to the Library of Congress from the Smithsonian
Institution, 1955. Keywords: Indian, Mexico - Aztec; Spanish
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10923-10937
Title: General U.S. Grant III and Frederick L. Raft, Jr. Interviews
Description: One 16-inch disc of an interview with General U.S. Grant
III (president of the National
Council for Historic Sites and Buildings) and Frederick L. Raft Jr. (Executive
Secretary of
the Council). Recorded during the intermission of the Sesquicentennial
Concert at the
Library of Congress, 1950. The collection includes a log. Keywords: historic
preservation, archaeology
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10833
Title: Greater Washington Ceili Club / MacMaster & MacQueen 1986 Concert
Collection
Description: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, fiddler Buddy MacMaster and
pianist Maybelle Chisolm
MacQueen perform in concert, accompanied by John Pellerin on fiddle, and
stepdancing, at
Greater Washington Ceili Club ceili at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Washington,
D.C. on
November 23, 1986. (Tape opens with Regan Wick on solo piano.) See also Jesse
Winch/MacMaster and MacQueen 1986 Concert Collection (AFC 1986/026).
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/025
AFS Number: AFS 24360
Title: Maria Ester Grebe / Chilean Folksongs
Description: Chilean folksongs, recorded by Professor Maria Ester
Grebe, at Santiago, Chile, 1964.
Inclusive Years: 1964
Duration: 1 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13158
Title: Pavlova Mezquida Greber / Folk Expressions of Puerto Rico Manuscript
Collection
Description: This is a 1 year study of folk arts programs in Puerto
Rico carried out by Pavlova Mezquida
(Greber) in 1992 to plan for scheduling and funding for 1993/94. Discusses
Puerto Rico's
folk arts, folk festivals, and also includes a directory of folk artists.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1996/049
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Steve Green Collection of Home Disc Recordings
Description: Audiodisc recordings purchased by Steve Green at Bassey's
Flea Market, near San Antonio,
Texas, ca. 1997.
Inclusive Years: 1940-1948
AFC Number: AFC 1997/031
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Archie Green Interviews, 2003
Description: Interview with Archie Green conducted by David Taylor
at Green's home in San Francisco,
on December15-16, 2003.
Inclusive Years: 2003
AFC Number: AFC 2004/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Aaron Greenberg / Hebrew Chants and Prayers
Description: One 10-inch tape of Hebrew chants and prayers performed
by Cantor Aaron M. Greenberg of
Jersey City, New Jersey. Recorded at the Library of Congress by Hermond
Norwood,
December 28, 1950. The collection includes two pages of content lists.
Duration: 1 hr. 4 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10085
Title: Gloria Greene Singing "The Mouse Who Lived on the Hill"
Description: "The Mouse Who Lived on the Hill" sung by Gloria
Greene, age 12, of Washington, D.C.
Recorded at the Library of Congress in the Recording Laboratory, 1947.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12352
Title: John R. Griffin Recording Project
Description: 1981 field project to document more fully the local history
and folk culture of Cook county,
Georgia (also studied in the 1977 American Folklife Center South-Central
Georgia Folklife
Survey). John R. Griffin, a fiddler from Lennox, Georgia, was an especially
astute observer of
local history and culture.
Inclusive Years: 1981
AFC Number: AFC 1991/027
AFS Number:
Title: Jim Griffith / Lydia Mendoza Duplication Project
Description: Interview with Mexican-American, Nortena singer and guitarist,
Lydia Mendoza, recorded on
May 27, 1977, in Spanish. Accompanied by Griffith's transcript (questions
in English,
response in Spanish).
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19975
Title: Jim Griffith / Van Holyoak Video Collection
Description: Two videocassettes of Van Holyoak, a rancher, highway
maintenance worker, storyteller,
singer, and cowboy poet from Clay Springs, Arizona. Recorded by Jim Griffith,
March-April
1977.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: AFC 1983/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Anne Grimes / Ohio Folk Music Collection
Description: One hundred and three 7-inch tapes, twenty-two 5-inch
tapes, two 4-inch tapes, and thirteen
3-inch tapes of instrumentals, interviews, songs, and stories, recorded primarily
in Ohio by
Anne Grimes, 1953-92. The collection includes one hundred eighty-five articles,
eighty-three other ephemeral publications, nine-hundred fifty-five pages of
manuscripts, one
hundred two photos, and three videocassettes. Included in the collection are
John M.
Bodiker, Bob Gibson, 4-H Club founder Albert B. Graham, Bascom Lamar Lunsford,
May
Kennedy McCord, Branch Rickey, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, and Grimes herself.
Inclusive Years: 1953-1992 (mostly 1950s)
Duration: 75 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1996/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: George C. Groce Recordings of American Folk Songs
Description: Records of American folk songs made by George C. Groce
in the Recording Laboratory of
the Library of Congress January 21, 1947. Singer is from Texas.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8950-8951
Title: Pekka Gronow and Richard K. Spottwood / Commercial 78 rpm International
Music
Description: Two 7-inch tapes of dance tunes, humor, and songs, mostly
immigrant and non-English
language material, from 78 rpm commercial recordings of Armenian, Finnish,
German,
Greek, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian,
Serbian, Sicilian,
Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Yugoslavian material. Gift of Pekka Gronow
and Richard
Spottswood.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18000-18001
Title: Julian Grossman / Jewish Folksongs
Description: Two Jewish folksongs and 1 original song in Yiddish.
Sung by Julian Grossman of
Norristown, Pennsylvania, summer, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19233
Title: Grouse Creek Cultural Survey
Description: Sixty-two cassettes of interviews, music, and stage performances
duplicated from the
original Grouse Creek Cultural Survey collection housed at the Fife Folklore
Archives, Utah
State University. Recorded in the Grouse Creek region of Utah by Hal Cannon,
Tom Carter,
and Carol Edison, July-August 1985. The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey was
a joint project
of the American Folklife Center, the Folk Arts Program of the Utah Arts
Council, the National
Park Service, the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Utah State University,
and the
Western Folklife Center. The collection includes two linear feet of architectural
survey data,
color transparency fiche, correspondence, fieldnotes, guides, logs, published
articles, and
transcriptions. This was the first such survey conducted by both folklorists
and historic
preservationists. Coordinated by Tom Carter who, with Carl Fleischhauer, wrote
book _The
Grouse Creek Cultural Survey: Integrating Folklife and Historic Preservation
Fieldwork_,
1988.
Inclusive Years: 1985
Duration: 85 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/010
AFS Number:
Title: Songs by Woody Guthrie
Description: Songs by Woody Guthrie with guitar, recorded Jan. 4,
1941, in at the Library of Congress in
the Phonoduplication Studio by Alan Lomax and John Lanenegger.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 4491
Title: Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection
Description: Four-and-a-half linear inches of correspondence (mostly
to Alan Lomax), essays, sketches,
and songs written by Woody Guthrie, most from 1935 to 1950 and some undated.
AFC Number: AFC 1940/004
AFS Number: N/A
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/wwghome.html
H
Title: Lawrence Haley Duplication Project
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of instrumentals performed on accordion,
fiddle, guitar, and mandolin
by James Edward Haley, Mrs. Martha Ella Haley, and Ralph Haley, who lived
in both
Kentucky and West Virginia. Originally recorded on fifty-four discs by
Ralph Haley, April
4-September 25, 1946. Also contains an interview with Lawrence Haley about
his parents'
life, recorded at the Library of Congress by Alan Jabbour, May 25, 1973.
The collection
includes four pages of fieldnotes and lists.
Inclusive Years: c.1946
Duration: 6 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1973/013
AFS Number: AFS 15597-15599
Title: Joseph S. Hall Great Smoky Mountains Original Recordings Collection
Description: Folktales, local history, descriptions of local customs
and practices, songs, ballads,
hymns, fiddle tunes, etc., recorded between 1937 and 1941 (discs) and 1956-67
(tapes) by
Joseph S. Hall in Great Smoky Mountains regions of Tennessee and North
Carolina. Discs
recorded with the assistance of Columbia University and the National Park
Service. Archive
also has 5 reels microfilm of fieldnotes, transcribed texts, and an inventory.
Also unbound
draft of Dictionary of Smoky Mountain Speeches; Photographs, some negatives,
slides,
drawings, most of them used in Hall's book, _Yarns and Tales from the Great
Smokies_ ,
1978; Accompanying documentation, consisting of large envelopes and sheets
(used in
printing the book), placed in large manuscript box labeled "Photo
Documentation."
AFC Number: AFC 1987/035
AFS Number: AFS 11412-11426
Title: Joseph Sargent Hall Interview Collection
Description: Oral history interview conducted by linguist Michael
Montgomery with Joseph Hall at Hall's
home in Oceanside, California, on January 8, 1990. Interview concerns Hall's
research and
experiences recording speech and folklore in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Inclusive Years: 1990
Duration: 1 hour, 30 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/013
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Joseph S. Hall Great Smokies Duplication Project (Continuation)
Description: Folksongs, instrumental music, and folk narrative and
speech from the Great Smokies area
of North Carolina and Tennessee, partly recorded in California. Recorded
by Joseph S.
Hall, Pasadena College, 1956-1967.
Inclusive Years: 1956-1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13710-13715
Title: Joseph E. Hall Calypso Recordings
Description: Calypso songs by Atilla, Lord Invader, The Skipper, Lord
Melody, King Radio, etc.
Recorded in Port au Spain, Trinidad, by John Bessor, 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12303
Title: Morgiana P. Halley / Marine Disasters in Newfoundland Folk Balladry
Including a
Classification System for Sea Disaster Narrative
Description: Thesis: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Joel Martin Halpern Collection
Description: The contents of the collection reflect the Halperns'
primary field work projects among
Serbo-Croatians (both in Eastern Europe and in Canada), as well as some
Russian,
Bulgarian, Laotian, and Inuit material. It also includes some articles
on topics unrelated to
anthropology. The collection consists largely of published materials (with
an emphasis on
music and traditional costumes) but also includes some audiotapes, videocassettes,
and
manuscripts from the fieldwork of Halpern and his wife, Barbara Kerewsky- Halpern.
Inclusive Years: 1950's-1990's
AFC Number: AFC 1998/001
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Halpern.html
Title: Ida Halpern / Mungo Martin Collection
Description: Mungo Martin, a Kwakiutl master chief and mastersinger,
performs over 100 songs, some
from neighboring tribes such as Bella Bella, Haida, Nootka, and Bella Coola.
Dance, feast,
game, hunting, love, war, and thank-you songs, associated with Hamatsa, Madispi,
Nimkish and Sisiutl clans.
AFC Number: AFC 1995/013
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Herbert Halpert New York City Collection
Description: Thirty-eight 12-inch discs of two hundred thirty-five
various folk songs including spirituals,
farming and labor songs, war songs, drinking songs, children’s songs,
taunts, lullabies,
and love songs, recorded for the Federal Theatre Project in New York City,
Ramapo, and
Sloatsburg, New York, by Herbert Halpert, January 19, 1938-November 1939.
The collection
includes three-eighths of a linear inch of correspondence, thirteen pages
of recording logs
and notes, and twenty-five pages of textual transcriptions. See also: AFS
19,359.
Inclusive Years: 1938-1939
Duration: 4 hrs, 50 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1938/002
AFS Number: AFS 3624-3672
Title: Herbert Halpert Interview
Description: One 10-inch tape of an interview with Herbert Halpert
regarding his experiences collecting
folklore for the WPA in New York City and elsewhere. Conducted by Peggy
Farber, Debora
Kodish, and Gerald E. Parsons, and recorded in Washington, D.C., at the
Library of
Congress in Studio "B", November 17, 1978. The collection includes
six pages of content
lists and notes. See also AFC 1938/002.
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19359
Title: Herbert Halpert / 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition
Description: Four hundred nineteen 12-inch discs of instrumentals,
monologs, prayers, sermons, songs,
and stories recorded in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South
Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, by Herbert Halpert, March 15-June 23, 1939,
for the Folk
Arts Committee of the WPA and the Library of Congress. The collection includes
one and
one-fourth linear inches of articles, contact sheets, correspondence, descriptions,
interviews, lists, photographs, reports, and song texts.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: AFC 1939/005
AFS Number: AFS 2735-3153
Title: Herbert Halpert Collection
Description: Sound recordings, correspondence, indexes, manuscripts,
research notes, photographs
and photographic negatives, newspaper clippings, student papers, ephemera
and other
materials primarily representing the documentation and analysis of the
folklore of regions of
New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Alaska by folklorist
Herbert
Halpert. The collection occupies 60-70 linear feet.
AFC Number: AFC 2004/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Frank and Mary Hamilton / Promo Cassette Collection
Description: The audiocassette is a recording of Frank and Mary Hamilton
playing guitar and banjo and
singing the following songs: "John Henry," "Turning of the
World," "Old Joe Clark,"
"
Lindbergh," and "Freight Train." Also included is a page
of biogaphical/promotional
information. Frank Hamilton was formerly a member of the Weavers and a
founder of the
Old Town School of Folk Music.
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: AFC 1998/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John Stuart Hamilton Collection
Description: In an aural letter to his friend, John Stuart Hamilton,
dated January 1984, Harley Schatzka
(age 73) from Westfield, Wisconsin, performed two songs (one entitled "Little
Yella' Nigger,"
the other a parody of "Red Wing"--both songs attributed to a Fred
Aurick [sp?]). [Second
song begins: "There once was a man names Sam, whose farm was mostly sand…"].
Inclusive Years: 1984
Duration: < 30 min.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/005
AFS Number:
Title: Donald R. Hammerman / Northern Illinois University Cultural Journalism
Projects
Description: Sample copies of cultural journalism projects produced
by participants in the various
"
communities workshops" which Hammerman taught at Northern Illinois
University.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1983
AFC Number: AFC 1983/019
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Hampton Institute Duplication Project
Description: Negro religious songs, sermons, ex-slave narratives,
Joe Louis fights, Eleanor Roosevelt
speech, etc. from Hampton, Virginia, recorded by Prof. Roscoe Lewis of
Hampton Institute,
1937-1940 [?].
Inclusive Years: 1937-1940 [?]
AFC Number: AFC 1948/015
AFS Number: AFS 8222-8321
Title: Raymond C. Hamrick / Georgia Sacred Harp Singing
Description: Georgia Sacred Harp singing, recorded near Barnesville,
Georgia, May 7, 1972, by Raymond
C. Hamrick.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14767
Title: Judge Learned Hand Recordings
Description: Two 16-inch discs of five songs sung by Judge Learned
Hand of Essex County, New York.
Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress, by John Langenegger
and Arthur
D. Semmig, October 3, 1942. The collection includes two pages of song lists.
Two of the
songs in this collection have been published by the Library of Congress
on recording
number AFS L29, _Songs and Ballads of American History and the Assassination
of
Presidents_, and one song has been published on _A Treasury of Library
of Congress Field
Recordings_ (Rounder CD 1500).
Inclusive Years: 1942
Duration: 12 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1945/007
AFS Number: AFS 6180-6181
Title: Wayland Hand / Montana Silver Miners Songs
Description: Sixteen 12-inch and four 10-inch discs of poems, Serbian
church songs, songs in Gaelic
and Welsh, and songs of silver miners. Recorded in Butte, Montana, by Charles
R. Cutts,
Wayland D. Hand, and Robert C. Wylder, July 10-29, 1948. The collection
includes thirteen
pages of correspondence, concordances, lists, and a receipt; and forty-five
pages of textual
transcriptions.
AFC Number: AFC 1950/004
AFS Number: AFS 9719-9738
Title: Wayland Hand / Songs and Lore of Urban California
Description: Six 10-inch tapes of songs and stories recorded primarily
in the Los Angeles, California,
area by Wayland D. Hand, D.K. Wilgus, and various UCLA students, 1956-60.
The
collection includes forty pages of correspondence, lyrics, notes, transcripts,
and song lists.
Includes western folk songs and songs and lore of urban minority groups in
California.
Keywords: Jewish; Polish; Partlow, Vera; Cray, Ed; Slovak; Armenian; Gypsy;
Ukrainian;
Japanese; Yugoslavian; Minnesota; Kentucky; Mexico; Alabama; Sorrels, Rosalie;
Wilgus,
D. K.; Philippines; Clar, Mimi; Utah; Coffin, Tristram P.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11859-11864
Title: Wayland Hand / Irish Songs Recorded in Butte, Montana
Description: Seven 12-inch discs of eighteen Irish songs sung by Eamonn
and Sean O'Sullivan.
Recorded in Butte, Montana, by Wayland D. Hand, 1945.
Inclusive Years: 1945
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1948/009
AFS Number: AFS 8035-8041
Title: Wayland Hand / Irish Songs Recorded in Butte, Montana
Description: One 16-inch disc of eleven mining and other songs performed
by Kyle Pugh, Jack Gaffney,
George Prescott, Ralph Wortman, Father Eamonn O’Sullivan, Jim Gallagher,
Wilfred Davis,
Willard Peck, and unidentified others. Recorded in Butte, Montana, by Wayland
D. Hand,
1946.
Duration: 25 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1948/045
AFS Number: AFS 8892
Title: Wayland D. Hand / Mining Songs from Montana
Description: Five 8-inch discs of twelve mining songs performed by
George Prescott, Ralph Wortman,
Wilfred Davis, Kyle Pugh, Jack Gaffney, Jim Gallagher, Willard Peck, and
Father Eamonn
O’Sullivan. Recorded in Butte, Montana, by Wayland D. Hand, 1948.
The collection
includes a one-page log.
Inclusive Years: 1948
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12353-12357
Title: John Handcox Interview Collection
Description: Interview with John Handcox, pioneer black labor leader,
author and songwriter, on
songwriting activities connected with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union,
farming, and
sharecropping activities. Conducted by Joe Glazer and Michael Honey at
the Library of
Congress, May 15, 1985, and sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
Inclusive Years: 1985
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24111
Title: W.C. Handy Radio Program
Description: Record made by W.C. Handy Program of Negro blues on Station
WWDC.
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8961
Title: Hanukkah, Feast of Dedication, Festival of Lights: Lecture and Workshop
on Hanukkah
Foods of Lebanon, Turkey and Morocco, December 14, 1990
Description:
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