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Title: Les Raber / "Come Dance With Me" fiddling
collection
Description: These audiocassettes each contain 22 fiddle tunes played
by Raber, a total of 44 tunes,
many with uncommon titles. Raber's repertoire includes older quadrilles,
waltzes, jigs,
reels, schottisches, and two steps in a style common to rural Michigan
before the influence
of the World Wars, the Fox Trot, and Appalachian fiddling styles. Raber is accompanied
by Bill Webster, hammered dulcimer; and Jim Vandenberg, guitar.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1996/075
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Radio Research Project Manuscript
Collection
Description: Correspondence, reports, radio scripts, and other notes
related to the Radio Research
Project.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: AFC 1941/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Radio Smithsonian / "AFS Centennial" Segment
Description: Radio Smithsonian program segment, produced by Nick Spitzer
(Folklife Programs), on the
American Folklore Society Centennial area of the 1988 Festival of American
Folklife, held
on the Mall, on an unknown date in 1988. [possibly aired Dec. 25, 1988?]
Inclusive Years: 1988
AFC Number: AFC 1989/002
AFS Number:
Title: Juan B. Rael Collection
Description: Thirty-six 12-inch discs of Mexican songs recorded in
Colorado and New Mexico by J.
Leslie Kittle and Juan B. Rael, July 29-August 11, 1940. The collection
includes fourteen
pages of lists and notes. AFS 3918-3927 includes material from Colorado.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: AFC 1940/002
AFS Number: AFS 3905-3940
Finding Aid: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?faid/faid:@field(DOCID+af999001)
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rghome.html
Title: Raices Musicales
Description: Raices Musicales (Musical Roots). Cassette produced from
a national tour, produced by the
National Council for the Traditional Arts," of music from Mexico and the
Hispanic
Southwest, October-November, 1988.
Inclusive Years: 1988
AFC Number: AFC 1988/017
AFS Number: AFS 24361
Title: Martha Champion Randle / Iroquois Recordings
Description: Ceremonial songs of Tonawanda Seneca longhouse. Recorded
by Martha Champion
Randle, 1936. Assisted by William N. Fenton, who made up notes and transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1936
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14387-14414
Title: Vance Randolph Collection
Description: The Vance Randolph Collection documents aspects of Ozark
life in the early 1940s.
Randolph made field recordings of folksongs and collected stories of life
in the Ozarks. The
collection also contains 213 graphic images. In addition to the material obtained
in the
field, Randolph accumulated an extensive number of newspaper clippings on a
wide variety
of subjects relating to the Ozarks, including local legends, history, language,
and sporting
activities.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1943, 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1941/001
AFS Number: AFS 5236-5336; 5364-5425; 6897-6904
Finding Aid: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?faid/faid:@field(DOCID+af000001)
Title: Vance Randolph / "Unprintable" Songs from the Ozarks Manuscript
Collection
Description: "Unprintable" Songs from the Ozarks, edited
by Vance Randolph, dated 1954. Contains
tests, scores and commentary on bawdy songs from the Ozarks.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: AFC 1989/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Stanley A. Ransom / Traditional Music of Long Island
Description: Two CDs and one audiocassette of sound recordings
and manuscript material performed by
Stanley A. Ransom ("The Connecticut Peddler") documenting traditional
music of Long
Island, New York.
Inclusive Years: 1997-1998
AFC Number: AFC 1997/028
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Willis M. Rapp / An Investigation of the Relationship of Vocal/Choral
Music to Selected
Wind Band Masterworks of Grainger, Holst, Milhaud and Vaughan Williams
Description: Dissertation: Kutztown University
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Stana Rasin and Barbara Lee / Czech and Slavic Folk Songs
Description: Czech and Slavic folk songs. Recorded in the studio by
Stana Rasin and Barbara Lee of
Air Research Section, April 17, 1949. Includes texts.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9782
Title: Steve Rathe / Interview with "Peg Leg Sam" (Arthur Jackson)
Description: Interview with "Peg Leg Sam" (Arthur Jackson)
at the National Folk Festival, August 3, 1975,
Steve Rathe, interviewer.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18804
Title: Steve Rathe / Western Swing Festival Project
Description: Speedy West and his Swing Band with Jimmy Bryant, Sons
of the Pioneers, Leon McAuliffe
and his Cimarron Boys. Guy Logsdon, emcee. Steel guitar, fiddle, guitar and
songwriting
workshops. Recorded by National Public Radio at the Tulsa Western Swing Festival,
State
Fair Grounds, Tulsa, Oklahoma. November 16, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19238-19248
Title: Steve Rathe / 1975 National Folk Festival
Description: Steve Rathe of National Public Radio interviewing Leonard
Emmanuel, hollerer, of Spivey's
Corner, North Carolina, and Richard Semprit of Baltimore, Maryland, leader
of the Trinidad
and Tobago Steel Drum Orchestra at the 1975 National Folk Festival.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19383-19384
Title: Nicholas Ray / South Dakota Recordings
Description: Records made in South Dakota for the WPA Recreation Project
by Nicholas Ray in 1939.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3673-3683
Title: Joan and Betty Raynor Recordings
Description: Record made by Joan and Betty Raynor at the Library of
Congress in the Phonoduplication
Laboratory, recorded by Alan Lomax, January, 1941. Songs from New Zealand.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/019
AFS Number: AFS 4421
Title: Readings from the Bhagavad Gita
Description: Readings from the Bhagavad Gita sung by Dr. Haridas T.
Muzumbar. Recorded at the Library
of Congress in the Recording Laboratory by Dorothy Spencer, May 24, 1946.
Inclusive Years: 1946
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13118-13119
Title: J. Russell Reaver / American Tall Tales Collection
Description: Tales from the South. Collected in 1950 by the Progressive
Farmer Company of
Birmingham, Alabama.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: AFC 1972/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Recording of Venda Music from Africa to Accompany John Blacking's
_How Musical is
Man?_
Description: Recording of Venda music from Africa to accompany _How
Musical is Man?_ by John
Blacking, University of Washington Press, 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19382
Title: Recordings from Fort Valley, Georgia
Description: Fifteen 12-inch discs of African American prayers and
songs recorded in Fort Valley,
Georgia, by Willis Laurence James, June-July 1943.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/003
AFS Number: AFS 7039-7053
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html
Title: Recordings of Barbara Bell
Description: Three 12-inch and three 16-inch discs of and interview
with and songs performed by
Barbara Bell of Minneapolis, Minnesota, recorded at the Library of Congress
by Alan Lomax
and Arthur Semmig, January 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6089-6091; 6311-6313
Title: Ola Belle Reed Photograph Collection
Description: 64 photographs of Country and Western singers active
in southeastern Pennsylvania and
northeastern Maryland in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Inclusive Years: 1930s-1940s
AFC Number: AFC 1976/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ola Belle Reed Duplication Project
Description: Recordings of the North Carolina Ridge Runners made ca.
late 1940s possibly at WDEL,
Wilmington, Delaware; performers living in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Also
Ola Belle
Reed, Alex Campbell, and the New River Boys, recorded 1968.
Inclusive Years: c.late 1940s, and 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14104-14105
Title: Robert Reeves / Menhaden Shantying Project
Description: Menhaden shanty recorded on board the Dewey, July 14,
1952, off the Gulf Coast by Robert
Reeves, friend of the boat's captain, Dewey Willis from Morehead City,
North Carolina.
Inclusive Years: 1952
Duration: 7 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19712
Title: Lucille Reilly / Hammered Dulcimer Demo Collection
Description: One cassette of autoharp and hammered dulcimer music
performed by Lucille Reilly ("The
Dulcimer Lady") of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with piano accompaniment
by Roberta
Bedor. Recorded at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, July
28, 1993. The
collection includes one page of correspondence, three fliers, and one black-and-white
promotional photograph.
Inclusive Years: 1990s
Duration: 10 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1996/059
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Elsie C. Reinhart / Notebook of Sewing Samples
Description: Book of sewing examples prepared by Miss Elsie C. Reinhart
for a sewing course. Sandra
Tinkham, a textile specialist from the Library of Congress Exhibits Office,
estimated that the
book dates between 1890-1920. Ms. Tinkham felt that the notebook demonstrated
plainsewing garment work appropriate to the training of a housemaid rather
than a
seamstress. She also felt that the book was probably compiled by a teacher
rather than by a
student, perhaps as part of a display for Parents' Day or some other school
function.
Inclusive Years: 1890-1920
AFC Number: AFC 1977/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Renfro Valley Barn Dance
Description: Three 7-inch tapes of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and
Homecoming Show recorded in
Renfro Valley, Kentucky, by Reuben Powell of the Renfro Valley Tape Club,
June 20, 1970.
Also includes instrumentals and songs performed by Russell Fluharty (hammered
dulcimer), Doc Hopkins, and Bradley Kincaid. The collection includes a
one-page content list.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14248-14250
Title: Martin Ressler / Old Order Amish Lob-song
Description: Lob-Song recorded at Old Order Amish worship service
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
May 31, 1972, by Martin E. Ressler.
Inclusive Years: 1972
Duration: 30 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17472
Title: Dwight F. Rettie / The Peasant's Lyre Manuscript Collection
Description: One bound, retyped manuscript of _The Peasant's Lyre:
A Collection of Miscellaneous
Poems by George Scroggie. Originally printed by William Bennett, Aberdeen,
Scotland,
1857. Forward (p. [2]) by Dwight F. Rettie.
Inclusive Years: 1850s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard Reuss / Israel "Izzy" Young Interview
Description: Sixteen 5-inch and one 7-inch tapes of an oral history
interview regarding the urban folksong
revival with Israel "Izzy" G. Young, founder of the Folklore Center
in New York City. Recorded
by Richard A. Reuss, July 8, 1965-March 26, 1969. The collection includes five
pages of
content lists and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1965-1969
Duration: 18 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19799-19815
Title: Richard Reuss Folksong Revival Project
Description: Music of the folksong revival, recorded from commercial
discs and at concerts by Richard
Reuss. Performers include Ian Campbell, Guy Carawan, New Lost City Ramblers,
and
Rising Sun Steel Band (Antigua). Also a ballad tape, with examples by many
performers.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19816-19821
Title: Songs and Stories by Emory Rexrode
Description: Songs and stories by Emory Rexrode, Monterey, Virginia.
Recorded by Bruce R. Richardson.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19391
Title: Robert Reynolds / Canary Island Whistle Speech Duplication Project.
Description: Recordings made in 1972 by Robert Reynolds of "El
Silbo Gomero," an indigenous
language among inhabitants of Gomero, Canary Islands.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21856
Title: George Reynolds / Katherine O'Neill Peters Sturgill Collection
Description: Sentimental songs, sermons, poems, gospel songs performed
by Kate Sturgill and others.
Recorded by Kate Sturgill on home disc machine in early 1950s.
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: AFC 1980/004
AFS Number:
Title: Willard Rhodes
Description: American Indian music recorded by Willard Rhodes in the
summer of 1941. Locations
include Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. Sponsored by the
Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12097-12138
Title: Willard Rhodes Recordings
Description: Fifty-eight 12-inch discs of American Indian music recorded
in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas,
New Mexico, and South Dakota by Willard Rhodes, summer 1942 and 1943, for
the Bureau
of Indian Affairs. The collection includes thirty-five pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12139-12196
Title: Willard Rhodes
Description: American Indian music recorded by Willard Rhodes in the
summer of 1949. Locations
include Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Sponsored by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12263-12295
Title: Willard Rhodes / American Indian Recordings
Description: Eight 10-inch tapes of music by North American Indian
tribes including Apache, Cherokee,
Comanche, Creek, Hopi, Kiowa, Navajo, Pawnee, Shoshone, and Tlingit, as
well as
Ecuadorian Indian and Eskimo music. Recorded in Arizona, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Utah, and
Wyoming by Willard Rhodes, June 1951-July 1952, and in Oregon by Louise
B.
Johannaber, 1952, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14618-14623
Title: Willard Rhodes Dakota and Sioux Recordings Collection
Description: American Indian music (mostly Dakota/Sioux) recorded
by Willard Rhodes in the summer of
1940. Sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. No listing.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10453-10485
Title: Willard Rhodes Recordings
Description: Seven 12-inch discs of American Indian music recorded
in Kansas and Oklahoma by
Willard Rhodes, summer 1943, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The collection
includes
two pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12197-12203
Title: Dave Ricker Recordings
Description: Earl Collins, fiddle, occasionally accompanied by Dave
Ricker and Bess Hawes. Collins is
originally from Oklahoma. Recorded in Downey, California, by Dave Ricker,
October-November, 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14458
Title: Johannes Riedel / Folksongs from Minnesota
Description: One 10-inch tape of an instrumental and nineteen songs
in English, Norwegian, and
Swedish recorded by students of Johannes Riedel, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, April-August 1961. The collection includes thirteen pages of
notes and twelve
pages of textual transcriptions.
Duration: 25 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11911
Title: Ralph Rinzler / Claudie Marcel-Dubois Project
Description: Louisiana Creole and Acadian songs and dance music on
violin, accordion, guitar, triangle
and drum by the Balfa Brothers, Sadie Courville and others. Interview re: music,
musicians
and musical customs. Recorded November 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19874-19877
Title: Ralph Rinzler Duplication Project
Description: Doc Watson and family, Clarence Ashley, Fred Price, Clint
Howard, Gaither Carlton, Garley
Foster, Bill Monroe, and others recorded from 1960-1965, at home concerts,
festivals, and
workshops by Ralph Rinzler and others. Includes vocal and instrumental
music, interviews,
and storytelling, recorded in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1965
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19559-19600
Title: Rio Grande Arts Center / "Tradiciones del Valle" Collection
Description: One hundred eighteen 7-inch tapes of Anglo-American fiddle
tunes and songs, and
primarily Hispanic popular and traditional musical forms; also includes
customs,
interviews, proverbs, riddles, and stories. Recorded in the San Luis Valley
of Southern
Colorado and Northern New Mexico by Dana Everts, May September 1985, for
the Rio
Grande Arts Center. The collection includes two linear inches of notes.
Includes penitente
songs, alavados, comdos, canciones, versos, and dance band music; also
interviews,
storytelling, proverbs, riddles, oraciones, customs, and verbal remedies
documented.
Fieldwork intended for production of radio programs produced by KRZA public
radio in
Alamosa. Funded by Folk Arts Program of NEA and by the Colorado Council
on the Arts
and Humanities Folk Arts Program
AFC Number: AFC 1986/023
AFS Number: AFS 26270-26387
Title: Wm. Van Riper / Linguistic Atlas of North American Collection
Description: Fieldwork tapes for Linguistic Atlas of Oklahoma. Includes
Anglo-American, Choctaw,
Kiowa/Osage. Includes Wm. Van Rip[er].
AFC Number: AFC 1984/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Walter W. Ristow / Charles Greeley Abbott Collection
Description: Sea shanties learned from Admiral Moore in 1907, and
recitations learned in school, ca.
1883, performed by Charles Greeley Abbott, former Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Recordist, place, and date unknown.
Inclusive Years: 1880s, early 1900s
AFC Number: AFC 1985/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: J.D. Robb New Mexico Recordings
Description: Spanish-American folk songs recorded by J.D. Robb in
New Mexico in 1944.
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6144-6151
Title: J.D. Robb / Music of the Southwest
Description: Folk and Indian music of the southwest. Recorded by Professor
J. D. Robb in New Mexico
and Arizona, 1950s. University of New Mexico Indian, American - Southwest
Spanish-American
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12332-12342
Title: J.D. Robb / Folk Music of the Southwest
Description: Sixty-three 7-inch and two 5-inch tapes of principally
Mexican American music; also
includes music from Mexico, Nepal, Spain, and Venezuela. Recorded by John
Donald Robb
in New Mexico and elsewhere, 1939-73. Principally Spanish-American, but also
American
Indian and Anglo (cowboy, instrumental, etc.). Possibly includes recordings
from El
Inclusive Years: 1939-1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15459-15523
Title: Helen H. Roberts American Indian and Pacific Island Recordings Collection
Description: Sixty-nine 12-inch discs of music and spoken word recorded
originally on wax cylinders in
California, East Africa, Hawaii, Jamaica, Montana, New Mexico, Samoa, Tahiti,
and Tonga
by Martha Beckwith, Henry E. Crampton, Frank Hurley, Bernice M. King, Walter
McClintock,
Helen H. Roberts, Claude Schaeffer, and others. Donated by Helen H. Roberts,
1936. The
collection includes forty-two pages of lists and notes. Performers include:
Cream Antelope,
Duck Head, Big Moon, Whitegrass, Dog Ears, Jim White Calf, Blood Jim, Dandy
Jim,
Stingy, Moonik, Big Top Knot, Big Moon, Bear Shoe, Mad Wolf (Siyeh), Many Tail
Feathers,
Running Crane, Mountain Chief, Hairy Coat, Makes Cold Weather, Rides to the
Door,
Russell, and others.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 751-819
Title: Daniel Robinson Fiddling Project
Description: Fiddling by Daniel Lanice Robinson (1885-1970). Recorded
summer 1951 in Winchester,
Tennessee by Bruce Robinson. Includes a short introduction by Ruth Dietrich.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19236
Title: Andrew Roblin and the Pocono Mountain Men Audiocassette Collection
Description: "Hip bluegrass" music. Contains the following
songs: "Lucky Trapper's Reel," "Doing My
Time," "Deal," "Peach Picking Time," "Festival
du Voyageur," "Valerie's Waltz," "Temperance
Bear," "Red River Jig."
Inclusive Years: 1990s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/057
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Rochester Museum of Arts / Iroquois Indian Music
Description: Five 16-inch discs of thirty-five Iroquoian songs duplicated
from originals at the Rochester
Museum of Arts and Sciences, New York, as part of the William N. Fenton
Project, 1948.
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9596-9600
Title: Lalo Rodriguez and Maria Castillo / Mexican American Farm Workers'
Songs
Description: Mexican American farm-workers' songs sung by Maria Aurora
Castillo and Conrado "Lalo"
Rodriquez of California in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress,
August 5,
1974. Recorded by Mike Heisley, Joseph C. Hickerson, Robert Carneal, John
B. Howell,
and Ed Tittel.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 65:45
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17114
Title: Kirby Rogers / Mable Hillary Recordings
Description: Concert by Negro folksinger, Mable Hillary at Brunswick
Junior College, Brunswick, Georgia,
February 24, 1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
Duration: 40 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14169
Title: Anne Romaine / Folksongs Sung by Nancy Arrington
Description: Folksongs sung by Mrs. Nancy Arrington, Swannanoa, North
Carolina, 1967.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13159
Title: David Romas / Central Michigan University Marching Band Song Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of bawdy American songs collected
by Mike Fitzpatrick and David
Romas. The majority of the songs were performed by the bawdy singer and
pianist known
as "Vollbey." The rest of the songs, as well as the recordings
and narration were performed
by David Romas. The audiocassettes are accompanied by 3 copies of a 59-page
manuscript entitled "Central Michigan University Marching Band: 'The Marching
Chippewas:'
Bawdy Songs, Chants and Limericks." The manuscript contains a complete
song list and
textual transcriptions. The collection was originally intended to aid the research
of Ed Cray
of the University of Southern California for the updated version of his book
_The Erotic
Muse: American Bawdy Songs_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992).
Inclusive Years: late 1970s-1996
AFC Number: AFC 1997/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Paul Roseland Alaska Music Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes, four CDs, and forty-one pages of
manuscripts documenting Klondike
gold rush, cowboy, and logging songs from Dawson, Alaska, and the state
of Alaska. The
collector, Paul Roseland, performs all songs. Recordings include: "Alaska
Folk Songs:
1864-1977," "Gold Rush Collections: 1849-1941," "Traditional
Cowboy Songs:
1880s-1950s," and "Traditional Logging Songs: 1853-1930." The
two audiocassettes are
unpublished versions of two CDs. The manuscripts consist of lists, melodic
and textual
transcription, notes, and photographs.
AFC Number: AFC 1997/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: James Rosellini / Music of Upper Volta (Burkina Fasso)
Description: Music of Upper Volta, recorded by James Rosellini 1970-1972.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15078-15083
Title: Art Rosenbaum Indiana Recordings
Description: One 7-inch tape containing twenty-three songs and ballads
sung by Verne Smelser, and an
interview. Recorded in Paoli, Indiana, by Art Rosenbaum, June 6, 1966.
The collection
includes two pages of logs. [see also AFS 17,541-17,567, tape 29]
Inclusive Years: 1966
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18806
Title: Rosenbaum and Dunford / Oscar Parks and Swedish Fiddling Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of a song performed by Oscar Parks, recorded
in Alton, Indiana, by Patrick
Dunford and Arthur Rosenbaum, December 30, 1963; and six instrumental songs
by
Swedish fiddlers, Röjas Jonas and Pahl Olle, duplicated from a commercial
7-inch disc.
The collection includes one newspaper article in Swedish and a two-page
song list.
Sveriges Radio commercial phonodisc, _Svensk Folkmusik_.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12052
Title: Art Rosenbaum / Fiddle Music from Iowa
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of fiddle and string band music recorded
at the Old Settler's fiddle
contest at the Old Thresher's Reunion, and at a blues music workshop. Recorded
primarily
in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, by Art Rosenbaum, 1970-72. Includes the playing
of Lyman Enloe,
Smokey McGuiness, and Bob Black. Blues music workshop (1972) features Yank
Rachell,
Shirley Griffith, and J. T. Adams.
Inclusive Years: 1970, 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18940-18942
Title: Art Rosenbaum Duplication Project
Description: Twenty-seven 10-inch tapes of blues, country, fiddle,
gospel, and other music recorded in
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire,
New York, and
Scotland primarily by Art Rosenbaum, 1958-71. Genres include country, fiddle,
gospel, and
blues music and Scottish ballads by various performers: Pete Franklin,
Shirley Griffith, Yank
Rachell, Scrapper Blackwell, John Summers, Louis Riendeau and "Doc" Oscar
Parks. Also
Albert Hash, Dwight "Red" Lamb, Elvin Campbell, H.E. "Pappy" Wells,
Silver Light Gospel
Singers, Bert Hare, migrant farm workers, Mary McBride Heekin, White / Whyte
family,
Clester Hounchell, J.M. Stone, Omie Rose Helton, Ed & Max LeBlanc, Old
Threshers'
Reunion, Fidel Martin
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17541-17567
Title: Bruce Rosenberg Duplication Project, Part II
Description: Negro sermons recorded by Bruce A. Rosenberg ca. 1968.
Sermons by Rev. Hays, Lockett,
Manner, Marcia Proctor (?), Grooms (?) Broadcasts on WELK-Charlottesville,
Virginia. See
also 14,557-68
Inclusive Years: c.1968
Duration: 6.25 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14586-14587
Title: Neil V. Rosenberg Bluegrass Music Collection
Description: Open-reel audio tape recordings and cassettes of live
bluegrass shows at Bean Blossom,
Indiana, and dubs of commercial bluegrass records and radio broadcasts.
Inclusive Years: c. 1954-1968
AFC Number: AFC 2002/009
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Laura E. Ross Spiritual Recordings
Description: Spirituals recorded by Laura E. Ross, Music Supervisor
of District V, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on Feb. 8, 1945.
Inclusive Years: 1945
AFC Number: AFC 1945/005
AFS Number: AFS 6178
Title: Kathleen Johnson and James Rosselini / Upper Volta Duplication Project,
Part IV
Description: Bwaba and Lobi music. Recorded by Kathleen Johnson and
Jim Rosselini, 1973 to 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18800-18801
Title: Upper Volta James Rosselini and Kathy Johnson Duplication Project,
Part III
Description: Mossi, Hansa, Bissa Bella, Lobi, Birifor, Bwaba, Fulani,
Yoruba, Belemsobgo, Toma and
Tougan music. Recorded by Kathy Johnson 1973-1975.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18754-18761
Title: Kathleen Johnson and James Rosselini / Upper Volta Duplication Project,
Part V
Description: Music from various peoples in the Upper Volta region
of Africa. Recorded by Jim Rosselini
1973 to 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18807-18848
Title: James Rossellini / Music of the Upper Volta, Africa (Burkina Fasso)
Description: Music of Upper Volta, Africa, recorded by James Rosellini,
1969-1970.
Inclusive Years: 1969-1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14251-14252
Title: Nick Royal Collection
Description: Recordings made by Nick Royal in 1974 and 1975 that include
conversation and fiddling by
traditional fiddlers Hansel Smith and Rob Propst and guitarist Jess Smith,
Franklin, West
Virginia.
Inclusive Years: 1974-1975
AFC Number: AFC 1991/025
AFS Number:
Title: Nick Royal Duplication Project
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of instrumentals performed on banjo,
fiddle, and guitar, with interviews,
by Nowell Creadick, Ken Godwin, Robert Propst, Hansel "Buck" Smith,
and Woody
Simmons. Recorded in Elkins and Franklin, West Virginia, primarily by Nick
Royal,
September 28 December 8, 1974. The collection includes nine pages of concordances,
correspondence, fieldnotes, and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 1.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17480-17481
Title: Nicholas N. Royal / The Use of Folk Music in the Teaching of United
States History
Description: Thesis: University of Chicago
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: The Ruth Rubin Yiddish Folk Music and Folklore, Part III
Description: Yiddish folksongs and folklore recorded by Ruth Rubin
in New York, Canada, and Israel,
1950s-1960s; and by Norman Cazden in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1954-1956.
Inclusive Years: 1950s-1960s: Rubin; 1954-1956: Cazden
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14665-14695
Title: The Ruth Rubin Collection of Yiddish Folksong and Folklore
Description: Recorded by Ruth Rubin primarily in Montreal and Toronto,
Canada, and New York City
between 1947 and 1964, with additional recordings in London, England, 1962.
Inclusive Years: 1947-1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13504-13553
Title: The Ruth Rubin Collection, Part 4
Description: Four 7-inch tapes of ninety-six Hebrew and Israeli songs
from the United States, Europe,
Israel, and Palestine sung by Ruth Rubin and others. Recorded primarily
by Ruth Rubin in
New York City, 1947-67. The collection includes thirteen pages of correspondence,
content
lists, and notes. Other singers include Betty Granatstein, Chana Factor, Shlomit
Tubim,
Mary Michaels, S.J. Rodman, S. Zachar [?].
Inclusive Years: 1948-1967
Duration: 5 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19253-19256
Title: Ruth Rubin / Yiddish Songs of the Holocaust
Description: Lecture and performance of Yiddish songs from World War
II concentration camps sung
and translated by Ruth Rubin.
Inclusive Years: 1940s
AFC Number: AFC 1989/013
AFS Number:
Title: Robert E. Ruckman / Hillbilly Music
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals performed on banjo,
fiddle, guitar, and steel guitar by the
Victory Hillbillies (Gilbert and Ferdinand Coates, Mr. Dempsey, and Herbert
Ruckman),
originally of Ruckman, West Virginia. Duplicated from discs recorded in
Washington, D.C.,
in the 1930s. The collection includes three pages of correspondence and
lists.
Inclusive Years: ca. late 1930s
Duration: 21:08
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14556
Title: Ry'l'ski Institute Ukrainian Cylinder Collection
Description: Encompasses ethnographic materials collected by Ukrainian
ethnologists in the early
twentieth century (ca. 1908-1930s) and represents oral traditions of several
ethnic regions
now situated in present day Ukraine. The collection features original archival
materials from
the Ryl’s’kyi Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology
(Kiev, Ukraine), which loaned
ca. 200 wax cylinders to the American Folklife Center (AFC) for restoration
and duplication.
Field recordings constitute the largest body of archival materials in the collection
with
approximately 400 vocal and instrumental compositions representing several
regional
genres and performances. Of significant note are recordings of blind minstrels
(e.g.,
kobzari, lirnyky), who practiced their folk art form prior to the 1930s. They
were recorded by
Ukrainian ethnographers before the repressive Stalinist purges and collectivization
programs, which decimated this distinctly Ukrainian performance practice.
Inclusive Years: 1908-1930s
AFC Number: AFC 1992/005
AFS Number: N/A
S
Title: H. Karl Saalbach / Reminiscences of Gerhard J. Duerksen Family
Description: Reminiscences of the Gerhard J. Duerksen family. Compiled
by Mrs. Anton Schmidt and Mr.
Alvin Duerksen.
Inclusive Years: 1878-1975
AFC Number: AFC 1989/026
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Samoan music / Marine Corps recordings
Description: Samoan music duplicated from the U.S. Marine Corps Collection
in the Library (MBRS
division). Music is only a small portion of this collection; also included
are thousands of
Marine Corps Personnel (personal messages) to people back home. D-Day on
Guam and
other combat situations were recorded.
Inclusive Years: 1942-1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10832
Title: San Diego Folk Festival, 1975
Description: Duplication of the official, original tapes of the San
Diego Folk Festival, April 16-20, 1975:
Will Spires, Sam Chatmon, Benny and Jerry Thomasson, and Wilbur Ball.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19541-19544
Title: Helga Sandburg Songs Collection
Description: Songs by Helga Sandburg, with guitar. Recorded at the
Library of Congress in Studio A, by
Rae Korson, November 6, 1963.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12030
Title: Jack Santino / Halloween Lecture Collection
Description: Lecture given by Jack Santino on the beliefs and customs
associated with Halloween,
sponsored by the American Folklife Center, with an introduction by Joseph
C. Hickerson,
Head of the Archive of Folk Culture. Recorded in the Whittal Pavilion of
the Library of
Congress, October 29, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22498
Title: Edward Sapir / Kutchin Cylinder Recordings
Description: Kutchin spoken-word cylinder recordings made by Edward
Sapir at Camp Red Cloud,
Pennsylvania, summer of 1923, from John Fredson, Kutchin Indian from Ft.
Yukon, Alaska.
Textual transcriptions and translations by Edward Sapir; melodic transcriptions
(of speech
tones?) by George Herzog. These materials are part of a larger collection
of Kutchin
linguistic data entrusted to Mary Haas by Sapir and his executors.
AFC Number: AFC 2000/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Interviews Regarding Sasquatch
Description: Interview concerning beliefs and legends current in states
of Washington and Oregon
regarding "Sasquatch." Recorded November 27, 1973, by Judge Norman
T. Custis in
suburban Washington, D.C.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17599
Title: Geraldine Saunders Songbook
Description: Photocopy of a songbook compiled by Myrtle Edna Brewster
Duncan of New Mexico during
the 1920s and 1930s.
Inclusive Years: 1920s-1930s
AFC Number: AFC 1979/010
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Robert Sayers / Doc Williams Collection
Description: Fiddle tunes by Doc Williams of Flagstaff, Arizona, along
with discussion of his life in the
saddlemaker's trade in Arizona and New Mexico. Recorded by Robert Sayers
in Flagstaff,
Arizona, November 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22499
Title: James Scancarelli / Fiddle and Banjo Music
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of instrumentals and songs recorded
in North Carolina, Virginia, and
West Virginia by James Scancarelli, May 23 August 16, 1969. The collection
includes
twelve pages of fieldnotes. Includes Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Frank
Rayborn,
Norman & Jimmy Edmonds, M. Samples, Chick Martin, Wade Ward, J. Scancarelli,
Arthur
Leake Caudle, Wilson Douglas.
Inclusive Years: 1964-1969
Duration: < 5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14088-14090
Title: Myron B. Schaeffer Collection
Description: Recorded in Panama by Myron Schaeffer, January and July,
1943. List.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7318-7323
Title: John M. Schechter / Ecuador-Quechua Collection
Description: Solo and ensemble songs and instrumental performances;
interviews in Quechua and
Spanish; festivals; holiday and burial rites; lesson-interviews with master
harpist Don Cesar
Muquinche; and instruction in the Quechua language by Enrique Andrade Albuja.
Recorded by John M. Schechter in Highland, Ecuador, November 1979-September
1980.
Inclusive Years: 1979-1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24124-24203
Title: Nicolas G. Schidlovsky Old Believers Collection
Description: Twenty-six 10-inch tapes of Old Believers' services and
religious singing, and copies of a
published recording of Russian church bells and religious chant. Recorded
in Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
and Washington,
D.C., by Nicolas G. Schidlovsky, 1972-85. The collection includes seven
photographs, a
six-page brochure entitled "Old Believers," and one linear inch
of concordances, notes,
photocopies of chant notations, recording logs, and early Slavic neumes.
Inclusive Years: 1974-1982?
AFC Number: AFC 1987/031
AFS Number: AFS 25956-25981
Title: Don Schmidt / Old Colony Mennonite Duplication Project
Description: One 5-inch tape of Old Colony Mennonite Church singing
recorded by Helen Enz near
Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico, ca. 1960.
Inclusive Years: c.1960
Duration: 5 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14576
Title: School of American Research Cylinder Duplication Project, Part II
Description: Twelve 10-inch tapes copied from cylinders of American
Indian and Mexican music and
spoken word. Recorded by Ernest Beaglehole, Helen H. Roberts, and members
of the 1931
Ethnology Field Training Group. Acquired on exchange from the School of
American
Research, 1979. American Indian tribes: Acoma, Cochiti, Santa Clara, San
Ildefonso,
Taos, and Tesuque Pueblo, Hopi, Mescalero Apache.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19502-19513
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Adolf E. Schroeder / Fiddle Tunes Recordings
Description: Fiddle tunes recorded at reception honoring publication
of _Old Time Fiddlers' Repertory_
by R. P. Christeson at the University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17027-17028
Title: Rebecca Schroeder / Library Collections of Ohio Folksong
Description: Thesis: Kent State University
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Schuyler Arts Folk Music Project Collection
Description: Folk music of the Rushville (Schuyler Co.) area,Illinois,
documented in the 1987 Schuyler
Arts Folk Music Project, which was funded by the Illinois Arts Council.
Performances of
and interviews with 19 area singers, fiddlers, guitarists, harmonica players,
hammered
dulcimer players, instrument makers, and square dance callers. Also includes
photos of
performers. Intended as general survey of folk music in Schuyler and surrounding
counties.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1991/014
AFS Number:
Title: Abraham A. Schwadron "Chad Gadya" Collection
Description: Sixteen 7-inch tapes of over one hundred and sixty versions
of the Passover song “Chad
Gadya” (One Kid), recorded in various parts of the United States
and the world. Compiled by
musicologist Abraham Schwadron, between 1973-1985, during his time at University
of
California Los Angeles. The collection includes one linear foot of background
research,
correspondence, indexes, informant information, logs, publicity, one box
of index cards, four
black-and-white photographs, and writings by Schwadron.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1985
AFC Number: AFC 1988/026
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/schwad.html
Title: John Schwarz / 1900 Paris World's Fair Recordings
Description: 3 cylinders from collection in Musee de l'Homme, Paris,
from John Schwarz who visited the
Library of Congress, November 12, 1970. Includes delegations from Hanoi
and China at
1900 Paris World's Fair, and a field recording from Algeria.
Inclusive Years: 1900
Duration: 20 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14300
Title: Seattle Folklore Society Collection
Description: Recordings of Jack Elliott, Mike Seeger, Roscoe Holcomb,
Elizabeth Cotten, Booker White,
Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Mills Family, Mike
Russo, Son
House, Robert Pete Williams, Gary Davis, Big Joe Williams, Fred McDowell,
Mance
Lipscomb, Sam Hinton, Kilby Snow and the Seattle Folklore Society Benefit.
Logs in many
tape boxes.
AFC Number: AFC 1995/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Second Northeast Old-Time Fiddler's Convention, 1964
Description: Two reels of recordings from the Second Annual Northeast
Oldtime Fiddlers' Convention,
October 1964. Performers include Lawrence Older, Dudley Laufman, Earl Eddy,
Glen
Meyers, Tom Azarian, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19362-19363
Title: Charles Seeger WPA South Carolina Recordings, 1939
Description: Seven discs of songs and spirituals, including several
accompanied on banjo and bones.
Recorded by Charles Seeger on Brevard Plantation, Adams Mill, near Columbia,
South
Carolina, March 1939. Deposited by the Joint Committee on Folk Arts, WPA.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3789-3795
Title: Charles Seeger Commercial Recordings Collection
Description: Folk music from various parts of Africa and from Switzerland,
recorded in 1930s and 1940s [
?]. Pressings labeled "Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire" with
further
information in script on labels.
Inclusive Years: 1930s and 1940s (?)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14607-14616
Title: Charles Seeger / "Song and the Compositional Processes" Collection
Description: Lecture entitled "Song and the Compositional Processes" given
by Charles Seeger in the
Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress, June 11, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: AFC 1985/003
AFS Number: AFS 19881-19882; SR1-2
Title: Mike Seeger Collection / Recordings of Kate Sturgill, Scott Boatright,
and Luther Bryant
Description: Recordings of Kate Sturgill (Greenville, Tennessee, Dec.
31, 1968), Scott Boatright (near
Coeburn Virginia, Jan. 2, 1969), and Luther Bryant (Troutville, Virginia,
Jan. 5, 1969).
Inclusive Years: 1968-1969
Duration: 63 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13718
Title: Mike Seeger collections / Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, and Sam Bowles
Recordings
Description: One 5-inch tape of instrumentals recorded in Maryland
and Ohio by Mike Seeger, July 1955
and February March 1971. The collection includes a one-page list. Includes
two banjo
duets by Earl Scruggs and Don Reno recorded in a contest at Rising Sun,
Maryland, July
24, 1955. Nine steel guitar instrumentals by Sam Bowles, Centerville, Ohio,
1971.
Inclusive Years: 1955; 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18962
Title: Mike Seeger Collection
Description: Two hundred and seventy-five 10-inch tapes of bluegrass,
country, and folk music, recorded
in California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia, primarily
by Mike
Seeger, 1953-67. The collection includes three linear inches of computer disks,
correspondence, notes, and photos. These tapes supplement his collections already
in the
archive. Includes some examples made by other collectors, including recordings
of
autoharpist, John Kilby Snow recorded by Blaine Jaeger. Bluegrass music predominates
this collection. A number of the tapes were recorded from radio and TV programs.
Bluegrass performers represented include Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl
Scruggs, the
Stanley Brothers, Don Reno, and Red Smiley. Tapes also include interviews with
country
music artists of the 1920s and 1930s including Tom Ashley, Sam and Kirk McGee,
Ernest
V. Stoneman, Gid Tanner, and Frank Walker. In their reminiscences with Seeger,
they
speak of many other old-time musicians whom they knew and worked with, life
on the road,
musical sources, etc., thus making this collection a source of important historical
information on early country music.
Inclusive Years: 1920s-1960s
AFC Number: AFC 1995/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Mike Seeger Collection, Part I
Description: Beanblossom (Indiana) Bluegrass Festival, 1971; Elizabeth
Cotten, guitar, Park City, Utah,
1974; Otis Pierce, 12 string guitar; Tommy Collins, interview; Cousin Emmy,
w/piano ;
Strange Creek Singers Seminar; Johnny Shines, blues w/guitar.
AFC Number: AFC 1982/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Pete Seeger Oberlin College Concert, 1955
Description: One 10-inch tape of a concert performed by Pete Seeger
of Beacon, New York. Recorded at
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, by Stephen Lee Taller and others, April
16, 1955. The
collection includes six pages of lists and four pages of photocopies of
the concert programs.
Inclusive Years: 1955
Duration: 2 hrs. 10 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17502
Title: Pete Seeger / Sloop Singers Concerts (1971)
Description: Pete Seeger and the Hudson River Sloop Singers Concerts,
November 12th and 13th, 1971
at the Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: AFC 1988/010
AFS Number: AFS 26172-26176
Title: Nancy-Jean Seigel Collection of Helen Hartness Flanders Material
Description: Recordings of Helen Hartness Flanders reading poems from
her book, "Country News Items
and Other Poems". The collection also contains two copies of this
poetry book and
photocopies of correspondence between Helen Hartness Flanders and Phillips
Barry. Also
included is a sound recording of the Vancouver Folk Alliance panel of 2/16/01
on Flanders'
collection moderated by Nancy-Jean Seigel, with Margaret MacArthur and
Joe Hickerson.
Also, 2 (8 x 10 black-and-white) photographs of Flanders.
Inclusive Years: 1964-2001
AFC Number: AFC 1999/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: The Nancy-Jean Seigel / Helen Hartness Flanders Lecture Collection
Description: Sound recording and accompanying ephemera from a lecture
by Nancy-Jean Seigel titled
"
Granny Was a Songcatcher: Researching the Life and Work of Helen Hartness
Flanders"
given at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, May
4, 2002.
Inclusive Years: 2002
AFC Number: AFC 2002/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Veronica Seiler / "Young Czechs" Collection
Description: Czech songs with accordion accompaniment by the "Young
Czechs," a children's costumed
song and dance group from forestville, Wisconsin. Recorded by Veronica Seiler
and sent
to the Library of Congress through the office of Senator William Proxmire.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22183
Title: Mrs. Aleppo Seilo / Finnish Music
Description: One 10-inch tape containing kantele instrumentals, laments,
and Teppo Repo's
compositions for flute and reed pipe. Collected by Aleppo Seilo. Donated
through the
Kalevala Duplicating Project, ca. 1961.
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11879
Title: Surya Sena / Sri Lankan Songs
Description: Sinhalese folk music and folk music of other lands of
the Orient. Sung by Devar Surya
Sena, assisted by his wife, Nelun Devi. 1 reel recorded at the Library
of Congress in the
Studio and the other reel is a recording of the recital at the Library
of Congress in Coolidge
Auditorium, 1950. List in project folder. Keywords: Ceylon India
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10083-10084
Title: Stefan Senders / Tommy Jarrell Collection
Description: Banjo and fiddle tunes by Tommy Jarrell and Robert Sykes
of Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Collection also includes Bartie Reynolds on guitar, Stefan Senders on banjo,
and Melvin
Slater on fiddle. Recorded by Stefan Senders in Mount Airy and Ararat,
North Carolina, May
22-June 9, 1980.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22480-22484
Title: Seward Park High School / "Our Neighborhood" Manuscript
Collection
Description: A 279-page manuscript entitled "Our Neighborhood," composed
of recipes and stories
collected by students of Seward Park High School on New York City's Lower
East Side,
1985-86. The collection includes a one-page newspaper article.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Stephen Lee Taller / Ben Shahn Tapes Collection
Description: One 4-inch, four 5-inch, and two 7-inch tapes of sounds
of New York City, recorded by Tony
Schwartz; Pete Seeger singing Bob Dylan's "Who Killed Davey Moore?";
songs sung by
Suzanna Shahn; songs sung by John Jacob Niles; and the Schubert Octet II.
The tapes
were originally owned by Ben Shahn and donated by Stephan Lee Taller in
1993. The
collection includes published biographies of Tony Schwartz and Ben Shahn,
correspondence, notes, and recording logs. Focuses mainly on the work of
Tony Schwartz,
a "recorder of sound" from New York City. Three of the tapes
reflect his work in recording the
everyday sounds in New York, and are entitled "Adventures in Sound," "You're
Stepping on
My Shadow," and "About New York--A City of Sound." The last
is a version of Bob Dylan's
"
Who Killed Davy Moore," performed by Pete Seeger with crowd noise and
comments edited
by Tony Schwartz. Also among the collection are two tapes featuring Suzanna
Shahn, Ben
Shahn's daughter and an unknown accompaniment. She records a number of songs,
including "Bury Me Beneath the Willow." The final tape is a recording
of a John Jacob Niles
concert and the Schubert Octet II.
Inclusive Years: c.1950s-1960s
AFC Number: AFC 1995/033
AFS Number: N/A
Title: "Sharing the Harvest" / Australian Field Recordings Collection
Description: Sound recording titled "Sharing the Harvest: Field
Recordings from the Meredith Collection
in the National Library of Australia." Recordings made in Australia
by John Meredith
primarily between 1953 and 1958.
Inclusive Years: 1950-1960
AFC Number: AFC 2001/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Cecil Sharp / Index to Appalachian Collection
Description: 8 microfilm reels of manuscript: Harvard University Library,
Microfilm Number: 97/1124.
Related name: Maud Karpeles Index to the manuscript collection of folks
songs and
dances collection by Cecil Sharp.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John Sharp Fiddling Collection
Description: Fiddle tunes by John Sharp of northern Tennessee, with
guitar accompaniment. Copied
from home recordings he made for his family, ca. 1948-1950, possibly in
Jamestown,
Inclusive Years: 1948-1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22626
Title: John Shaw Lecture Collection
Description: Lecture on Gaelic music, primarily instrumental music,
given by John Shaw of Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia. Traces history of Gaelic music and discusses its expression in
Cape
Breton. Recorded by Dave Reich on Aug. 2, 1985, at Iona Parish Hall, Iona,
Cape Breton
Island, Nova Scotia.
Inclusive Years: 1985
AFC Number: AFC 1987/006
AFS Number: AFS 24460
Title: Hubert G. Shearin and Josiah Henry Combs / A Syllabus of Kentucky
Folk-songs
Description: Lexington, Kentucky: Transylvania Print Co., 1911. 43
pages. Microfilm Number: 97/1125
Inclusive Years: 1911
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard Riley Shepard / Encyclopedia: Traditional Music and Folk
Songs of the United
States, Vols. I and II
Description: Three volumes of manuscript materials: Two volumes of
the encyclopedia and one
photocopy of vol. II.
AFC Number: AFC 1979/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Josepha Sherman / "Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts" Children's
Rhymes Collection
Description: Josepha Sherman's archive of notes used in compiling
_Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The
Subversive Folklore of Childhood_ (Little Rock: August House Publishers,
1995).
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1998/027
AFS Number: N/A
Title: William J. (Jack) Sherrard Sea Stories and Chanties Collection
Description: Stories and chanties of the sea. Performed by William
J. (Jack) Sherrard.
Inclusive Years: 1966-1967
Duration: 2 hrs. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13054-13059
Title: William J. (Jack) Sherrard / Stories and Songs of the Sea
Description: Stories and songs of the sea, narrated and sung by William
J. Sherrard. Recorded by
Albert C. Brissette, Nelson, New Hampshire, 1967-68.
Inclusive Years: 1967-1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13480-13486
Title: Willliam J. (Jack) Sherrard / Sea Lore
Description: Narrative on the loss of the 7-masted schooner, "Thomas
W. Lawson" by William J.
Sherrard, Nelson, New Hampshire, 1969.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14171
Title: Francis W. Shield / Mrs. James Wilson Singing "Little Ida"
Description: One 3-inch tape of "Little Ida," discussed
and sung by Mrs. James Wilson, originally of
Ohio. Recorded by Francis W. Sheild (Mrs. Wilsons's granddaughter's husband)
in
Hampton, Virginia, July 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
Duration: 20 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14217
Title: Kathy and Joel Shimberg / Interview of John W. Summers
Description: Nineteen 10-inch tapes of fiddle tunes performed by John
W. "Dick" Summers and Fred
Weaver. Recorded in Marion and Upland, Indiana, by Joel and Kathy Shimberg,
December
1970, May 1972, and January 1973. The collection includes twenty-five pages
of
correspondence, data-sheets, logs, and song lists.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1973
Duration: 38 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17450-17468
Title: Shinnecock Indian Lullaby
Description: One 3-inch tape of a Shinnecock Indian lullaby sung by
Gladys Cuffey Collins (Princess
Wyandanch). Recorded in Sag Harbor, New York, by Dennis Starin, June 1966.
The
collection includes nine pages of an arrangement with English lyrics, correspondence,
a
newspaper article, and a transcription.
Inclusive Years: 1966
Duration: 2 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13052
Title: Karl Signell / "Music in a New World" Collection
Description: One cassette of interviews, narrations, songs, and stories,
including examples of
Afro-Cuban, Bosnian, Thai, and Turkish music, recorded at various locations
by Karl
Signell, February-April, 1981, and assembled as a preview of the "Music
in a New World"
series for National Public Radio. The collection includes twenty pages
of correspondence
and descriptions. Includes the music and stories of recent immigrant groups
in the United States.
Inclusive Years: 1981
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22185
Title: "Signs, Cures, and Witchery" Video Collection
Description: Videocassette recording of _Signs, Cures, and Witchery_
produced by Gerald Milnes,
Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins College, 2001. "A fascinating
glimpse of some
little-known Appalachian beliefs and practices among descendants of early
German
pioneers."
Inclusive Years: 2001
Duration: 57:30
AFC Number: AFC 2001/020
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John A. Silver / Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School
Collection
Description: Afro-American spirituals performed by teachers and others
at the Penn Normal Industrial
and Agricultural School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Includes
a spoken prologue,
and was used in the production of a film "To Live As Freemen." Recorded
on St. Helena
Island in 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1942
Duration: 65 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22485
Title: "Singing Our Stories" / Annie Frazier Henry Film
Description: A film by Annie Frazier Henry, Full Regalia/Omni Films,
broadcast initially on the Canadian
Public Broadasting network. A study of native women singers and the women
who
documented them. Includes interview with Judith Gray regarding Frances
Densmore, shots
of a cylinder machine on the Folklife Reading Room table, and a "re-enactment" of
a
cylinder machine recording with Pura Fe as the singer (filmed in the Poetry
Office space at
the top of the Jefferson Building, Library of Congress).
Inclusive Years: 1998
AFC Number: AFC 1998/025
AFS Number: N/A
Title: A.F. Sisson / Ozark Mountaineers Recordings Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of twenty-five songs sung with guitar
and harmonica by "The Ozark
Mountaineers" (Almus D. Sisson and Harold D. Sisson), originally of
Mountain View,
Arkansas. Recorded in Portland, Oregon, after 1942.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1940
Duration: 1 hr. 8 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12096
Title: A.F. Sisson / Songs from Arkansas
Description: Two Arkansas songs sung by Dr. Albert F. Sisson, Avondale,
Maryland. Recorded by Albert
Sisson, April 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: AFC 1973/014
AFS Number: AFS 15600
Title: 1628 Intern House Parties Collection
Description: The cassette contains 23 fiddle tunes performed by Alan
Jabbour and Scott R. Prouty, as
well as conversation and stories from the others present, including Archive
of Folk Culture
interns John C. DeMetrick of Wakefield, Rhode Island; Maris Jaagosild of
Tartu, Estonia;
and Sara Zoe Patterson of Hudson, New York, as well as her housemate Christiane
Lellig
of Saar, Germany, and Alan Jabbour's daughter Rebecca, of Berkeley, California.
It was
recorded on April 19, 1996, at 1628 15th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20009.
Sound
quality is good for the fiddle tunes and harder to distinguish for the
conversation.
Inclusive Years: 1996
AFC Number: AFC 1996/068
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Patrick Sky / "Patrick J. Touhey" Collection
Description: Skylar Productions recording entitled "Patrick J.
Touhey: Genius of the Uillean Pipes" (SK
1002), containing Irish uillean pipe reels, jigs, hornpipes, airs, and
marches. Copied from
tapes of 78 rpm discs and cylinder recordings originally recorded in the
early 1920s.
Produced and engineered by Patrick Sky, and distributed by Shanachie Records,
Inc., (c)
1985.
Inclusive Years: originally 1920s; 1985
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24221
Title: Gladys Slate / Indiana
Description: One 5-inch tape of twenty-one songs sung by Gladys Slate
of Flora, Indiana. Recorded by
her daughter Mrs. Dean A. Ross, September 19, 1962. The collection includes
a one-page
song list.
Inclusive Years: 1962
Duration: 35 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12058
Title: Katharine L. Small / The Influence of the Gospel Song on the Negro
Church
Description: M.A. Thesis, Ohio State University, 1945. Microfilm Number:
97/1102
Inclusive Years: 1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Caldwell Smith / Uganda Tribal Music
Description: Tribal music recorded 1954 in Uganda by Caldwell P. Smith.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14109
Title: Franklin G. Smith Military Folk Music
Description: One cassette containing the lecture "Military Folk
Song Since 1870,", given by Franklin
Smith including vocal examples with guitar. Recorded at Fort Bliss, Texas
as part of the Ft.
Bliss Bicentennial Lecture Series, May 12, 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1976
Duration: 90 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19179
Title: Martha L. Smith Autobiography Recordings
Description: Records made by Martha L. Smith in Washington, D.C.,
March 17, 1944, recorded by B. A.
Botkin and Arthur Semmig. Informant from Oklahoma, born 1852 in Missouri.
List
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: AFC 1944/014
AFS Number: AFS 7093-7096
Title: Stephen Smith / "Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing," Minnesota
Public Radio
Collection
Description: One 10-inch tape of a radio program entitled "Song
Catcher Frances Densmore of Red
Wing," about Densmore's life and her recordings of North American
Indian songs. Recorded
by Stephen Smith for Minnesota Public Radio and broadcast November 26, 1994,
on
National Public Radio's program "All Things Considered."
Inclusive Years: 1994
Duration: 24 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1995/011
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Smithsonian Institution / Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper Concert
Description: Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper concert at the Smithsonian
Institution, October 20, 1974.
Part of "Women in Country Music" series.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17446-17449
Title: Jack and Olivia Solomon Interview of Ruth Herren
Description: Jack and Olivia Solomon interview Ruth Herren at her
home in Tallahassee, Alabama in
1975. Miss Ruth sings folksongs with banjo accompaniment.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19356-19357
Title: Laurie Sommers / "Wiregrass Ways" Radio Series
Description: Laurie Sommers, director of the South Georgia Folklife
Project, donated a cassette copy of
"
Wiregrass Ways," her radio series which ran on Georgia Public Radio
in fall 1998 and on
WFSU (Tallahassee, Florida) in 1999. The 13-part series included hollering
recordings
from the Archive of Folk Culture's Francis Harper 1944 recordings. The
program topics
were: fiddle traditions (Thomasville & Valdosta), Sacred Harp singing
school and a sing
(Hoboken), making cane syrup (Willacoochee), gospel anniversaries (Lowndes
County /
Valdosta), palmetto brooms (Folkston), Fiestas Guadalupanas (Mexican fiesta
in Valdosta),
tobacco auctions (Nashville), hymn lining (Folkston, Valdosta), Mt. Zion
Music Hall (old-time
country and bluegrass music), turpentining (Folkston), mayhaw jelly (Valdosta,
Nashville),
hollering (Folkston).
Inclusive Years: 1998-1999
AFC Number: AFC 2001/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Songs Sung by the Priority Ramblers
Description: One 16-inch disc and one 12-inch disc of songs sung by
Jackie Gibson, Tom Glazer, Edna
Nell, and Josephine Schwartz of the Priority Ramblers, including seven
songs about
wartime America (World War II). Recorded at the Library of Congress by
Rae Korson and
Arthur Semmig, September 6, 1943.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/004
AFS Number: AFS 7054-7055
Title: Robert Sonkin / Gee's Bend and Palmerdale, Alabama, Collection
Description: Sixty-four 12-inch discs of conversations, interviews,
prayer meetings, rhymes, and songs.
Recorded at various locations in Alabama and New Jersey, by Robert Sonkin,
June 25-July
25, 1941. The collection includes one inch of content lists and textual
transcriptions.
Includes Gee's Bend and Palmerdale, Alabama. Only one disc (with 3 songs)
from New Jersey.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/018
AFS Number: AFS 5035-5098
Title: South Dakota Historical Society Collection
Description: Ten cassettes of interviews with master artist/apprentice
pairs participating in South
Dakota's Traditional Arts Program and two artist demonstration series at
the Cultural
Heritage Center in Pierre, South Dakota. Recorded and conducted by Michael
F. Miller,
October-November, 1992.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1995/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection
Description: One hundred seventy-nine 7-inch tapes, one 5-inch tape,
and one hundred ninety-six
cassettes from the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection, a
field survey of
regional folklife including bluegrass music, children's hand games, crafts,
folk medicine,
foodways, gravestones, narratives, occupational folklore, religious music
and services, and
songs. Recorded in Georgia by Thomas Adler, Carl Fleischhauer, Alan Jabbour,
William
Lightfoot, Howard Marshall, Beverly J. Robinson, and David Stanley, July-August
1977.
Cosponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Arts Experiment Station
of Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College. The collection includes nine linear feet
of documentation
and logs.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: AFC 1982/010
AFS Number: AFS 20874-21249
Title: Dudley "Babe" Spangler, J.W. Spangler, and Maggie Wood
Recordings
Description: Fiddle and string band music by Dudley "Babe" Spangler,
J.W. Spangler and Maggie Wood,
recorded at Mt. Airy, North Carolina and Danville, Virginia, 1948-1949.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17474
Title: Elmer Sparks / Interview with Ex-Slave Celia Black
Description: Celia Black, 115 year old ex-slave, interviewed by Elmer
Sparks at the Colonial Mannor
Nursing Home, Tyler, Texas, 75701, on October 11, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17476
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
Title: Elmer Sparks / Charlie Smith Ex-Slave Narrative
Description: Interview with Charlie Smith, 130 year old African-born
ex-slave and former cowboy, logger,
migrant farmer, and member of the Masonic Rite. Conducted by Elmer Sparks
in Bartow,
Florida, March 17, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17510
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
Title: "The Spirit Cries" Symposium and Reception
Description: Four videocassettes of "The Spirit Cries" symposium
and reception, American Folklife
Center, Library of Congress, March 15, 1993.
Inclusive Years: 1993
Duration: 4 hrs (appx.)
AFC Number: AFC 1993/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Nick Spitzer Louisiana Folk Music
Description: Roy Beckham on fiddle and Willie May Deason on guitar,
from Hico, Louisiana. Recorded
by Nicholas Spitzer and Susan Roach.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19445
Title: Nick Spitzer / Folk Masters 1992 Season Collection
Description: Thirteen audiocassettes of radio programs derived from
live performances and on-stage
interviews from the "Folk Masters" series held at The Barns of
Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia.
Originally recorded April 1-May 8, 1992. The collection includes a thirty-two
page "Listener's
Guide to Programs." Programs include: "Parlor Picking, Frolic Fiddling
and Juke Joint
Blues," "Black Gospel Styles," "Masters of the Folk Violin," "American
Indian Music," "Music
from the Spanish Caribbean and Central America," "Guitar Wizards," "African
Roots,"
"
Accordion Kings," "Blues and Bluegrass in the American Capital," "Europe
in America,"
"
Rockabilly and Western Swing," "New York Klezmer and New Orleans
Jazz," and "New
World Beat."
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1995/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Fred McDowell
Description: Blues and sacred music by Fred McDowell accompanied by
his friends and family. Vocal
and guitar. Recorded by Richard Spottswood on Easter weekend, 1962, at
the McDowell
home in Como, Mississippi.
Inclusive Years: 1962
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17594-17598
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / S.D. (Sady) Courville "Recorded Letter"
Description: A "recorded letter" from S. D. (Sadie) Courville
to Richard K. Spottswood. Courville's
reminiscences concerning his early musical career in Louisiana dance halls
are followed
by performance of three Cajun fiddle tunes by S. D. Courville (fiddle),
Dennis McGee (fiddle),
and Marc Savoy (fiddle). Recorded by S. D. Courville for Richard Spottswood.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19373
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Four Blues Singers Welfare Case Files & Interviews
Collection
Description: Richard K. Spottswood has donated copies of five documents
relating to four prominent
blues singers: Rev. Gary Davis (77 pages), Blind Boy Fuller (20 pages),
Mississippi John
Hurt (89 pages), and Skip James (171 pages). Two are copies of welfare
case file
documents (of Blind Boy Fuller and Rev. Gary Davis), two are transcripts
of interviews with
Mississippi John Hurt, and one, having the format of a draft for a book,
is possibly derived
from interviews with Skip James.
Inclusive Years: 1931-1948; 1963; and unknown
AFC Number: AFC 1998/024
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music Recordings
Description: Cajun music played on accordion, fiddle, drum, and guitar
by Tee Neg and the Abbeville
Playboys. Recorded May 4, 1975 by Richard Spottswood in Abbeville, Louisiana.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17568-17571
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Dubs of Commercial 78s
Description: Dub of miscellaneous jazz, western swing, and Spanish
language commercial 78s.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17572
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Ray and Ina Patterson Recordings
Description: Hillbilly vocal and instrumental music played on guitar
and mandolin by Ray and Ina
Patterson. Recorded by Richard Spottswood in Tucson, Arizona, April 26,
1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17573-17576
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music
Description: Cajun music played on guitar accordion, drum, fiddle
and steel guitar by the Louisiana
Aces (D.L. Menard, Terry Cormier, Bobby Estilette, Mike LeJune, Raymond
Francois,
Elwood Hebert) recorded by Richard Spottswood in Rayne, Louisiana, May
3, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 3 hrs, 45 mins
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17577-17583
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / John Cephas Recordings
Description: Negro blues singer and guitar player John Cephas, recorded
by himself at D.C. National
Guard Armory, mid 1975, and by Mike Rivers, Joseph Wilson and Richard Spottswood
at
Silver Spring, Maryland, June 9, 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1975-1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18723-18724
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music
Description: Cajun music played on guitar, steel guitar, fiddle, accordion,
and triangle, by S.D. Courville,
Nathan Abshire, Preston Manual, Ambrose Thibodeaux, and Glady Thibodeaux. Recorded
live during broadcast of Revon Reed's "Mamou Hour" over Radio KEUN
by Richard
Spottswood in Eunice, Louisiana, May 11, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17589-17593
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Wyla ("chicken scratch") Music
Description: Wyla (or "chicken scratch") band music played
on accordion, alto sax, fiddle, 12-string
guitar, etc., by Papago Indians: Mike Enis and his group. Recorded by Richard
Spottswood,
April 1975, in Arizona.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17621-17623
Title: Richard K. Spottswood and Maury Berstein / Swedish Dalarna Fiddling
Description: Four 7-inch tapes of Swedish Dalarna fiddling played
by Paul Dahlin, Bruce Johnson, and
Edwin Johnson. Recorded at radio station KSJN, St. Paul, Minnesota, by
Maury Bernstein
and Richard K. Spottswood, January 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 55 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17639-17642
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Wilbert "Chief" Ellis and John
Cephas Recordings
Description: Black blues pianist Wilbert "Chief" Ellis plays "The
Gambler;" black blues guitarist John
Cephas plays three cuts of "John Henry." Recorded by Richard
Spottswood in Hyattsville,
Maryland, June 1, 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18469-18470
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music and Interview
Description: Interview and Cajun music played on fiddle, accordion
and guitar with vocal
accompaniment, by Dewey Segura, D. L. Menard, and Camille Duplantis. Recorded
by
Richard Spottswood, May 5, 1975, in Delcambre, Louisiana.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17585-17588
Title: Richard K. Spottswood and Jim Griffith / Ed Smith Fiddle Tunes
Description: Fiddle and string band music played by Ed. Smith et al.
Recorded by Dick Spottswood at
home of Jim Griffith, Tucson, Arizona, April 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17986-17990
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music
Description: Cajun music played by Dennis McGee, Sady Courville, Marc
Savoy on fiddle, accordion, etc.
Recorded by R. Spottswood at Chatagnier, Louisiana, May 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17624-17626
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Interview with Les Soileau
Description: Interview (no music) with Les Soileau, pioneer Cajun
fiddler recorded by Richard
Spottswood in Ville Platte, Louisiana, May 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17636-17637
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Fiddle Music
Description: Fiddle music played by Clarence Langen, etc. in Thatcher,
Arizona, April 1975, by Richard
K. Spottswood.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17627-17635
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Blues and Children's Songs
Description: Blues and children's songs sung and played on guitar
by George and Ethel McCoy.
Recorded by Richard Spottswood in the McCoy home in East St. Louis, Illinois,
September
28, 1975. Includes interview.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17991-17994
Title: Gilbert A. Sprauve / Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Collection
Description: One audiocassette of two Dutch Creole stories paraphrased
into English Creole by Gilbert
A. Sprauve of the College of the Virgin Islands, and re-translated into
Dutch Creole by Alice
Stevens of St. John; includes an introduction by Gilbert Sprauve and a short
interview with
Alice Stevens concerning her learning of Dutch Creole. Recorded through the
auspices of
WTJX-TV and the Enid Barr Library in the Virgin Islands, May 1983. The collection
includes one-half linear inch of correspondence, notes, and transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1983
Duration: 32 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22603
Title: Square Dance Legislation Collection
Description: Administrative materials, correspondence, dance publications,
newspaper articles, as well
as legislation documentation from the 98th Congress to designate the square
dance as the
national dance.
Inclusive Years: 1975 to present (1995)
AFC Number: AFC 1984/024
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/squaredance.html
Title: St. Eustacious / John Allen Collection
Description: One 10-inch tape of interviews and songs recorded on
St. Eustatius Island, Netherlands
West Indies, by John W. Allen, sometime before June 1963. Keywords: Dutch
West
Indies; Netherlands West Indies
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12009
Title: Thomas Standeven, Jr. / John Vesey, Sligo Fiddler, CD project
Description: 2 CDs containing 42 pieces performed by John Francis
Vesey (Sligo fiddler --- 1924-1995),
accompanied by Edward Cahill (flute), Peter Canice Fahy (fiddle, flute,
uilleann pipes),
Michael McIntyre (flute), and Martin J. Wynne (fiddle). The 2nd CD concludes
with a slow
air on uilleann pipes by Standeven. The recordings were made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Inclusive Years: 1954-1975
AFC Number: AFC 1999/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jack Stanesco Duplication Project
Description: Whaling songs and sea chanties recorded on St. Vincent's
Island, British West Indies, ca.
1968-1970, by Jack Stanesco. Also some recordings by Krister Malm in the
West Indies.
Inclusive Years: c.1968-1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14222
Title: Ron Stanford / Florence and Sam Reece Recording Project
Description: Interview of Florence and Sam Reece, with songs by Florence
Reece. Recorded in
Tennessee by Ron Stanford, June 3-7, 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14588-14589
Title: Gary Stanton / "Music of Alan Jabbour" Broadcast Collection
Description: A "Music Down Home" radio program entitled "The
Music of alan Jabbour," containing fiddle
tunes and an interview with Alan Jabbour, conducted by Gary Stanton, "The
Radio Ranger;"
includes old-time music with Sandy Bradley and Tommy Thompson of the Fuzzy
Mountain
String Band. Recorded at WFIU-FM, Bloomington, Indiana, October 21, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23157
Title: Mary Agnes Starr / French voyageur songs sung by Reuben Valley
Description: 1 7-inch reel of French voyageur songs sent by Mary Agnes
Starr. Sung by Reuben Valley
(100 years old) of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10494
Title: Omer C. Stewart / American Indian Recordings
Description: American Indian Peyote and other songs recorded by Omer
C. Stewart among the Northern
Paiute, Washo, Ute (including Comanche, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Miwok, Navajo
and Shoshone
songs) in Colorado, Nevada and California, 1938 etc.: also recorded for
Ruth M. Underhill by
Frank S. Speck among the Arapaho in Oklahoma, 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1938, 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15090-15097
Title: A Stitch in Time: African American Quilters of Oakland
Description: Half-hour television special on African American quilts
and quiltmakers from Oakland,
California. Broadcast on KGO-TV, channel 7, San Francisco, on Jan. 20,
1991, 6:30 p.m.
Includes interviews with Maya Angelou and Niki Giovanni, as well as quilters
Charles Cater,
Willie Ette Graham, and Bettie Phillips.
Inclusive Years: 1991
AFC Number: AFC 1991/010
AFS Number:
Title: Ben Stonehill Duplication Project
Description: Nine 10-inch tapes of songs of European Jewish immigrants.
Originally recorded on wire in
New York City by Benjamin Stonehill, 1948. The collection includes one-eighth
linear inch
of song lists and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1948
Duration: 18 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12365-12373
Title: The Story of Thomas Wolfe's Life Made by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton
Description: The story of Thomas Wolfe's life made by Mrs. Mabel Wolfe
Wheaton in the Recording
laboratory of the Library of Congress January 21, 1947.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8952-8960
Title: Don Stover Interview Collection
Description: Interview with Don Stover conducted by Alan Jabbour and
Don Wilson; includes banjo
playing by Stover. Recorded in Studio A of the Library of Congress, April
27, 1979.
Inclusive Years: 1979
AFC Number: AFC 1985/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jack and Katherine Strain / Spanish Folk Music from New Mexico
Description: Spanish folk music from New Mexico. Performers include
Vincentito Montoya, Margarito
Olivas, Jose Archuleta, Julia Jaramillo, Pablo Trujello, Jose Romero, and
Remijia Romero.
Collected in 1977-1978 by John Loeffler and Katherine Strain.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19632-19710
Title: Virgil Sturgil Recordings
Description: Folk songs of North Carolina recorded in the Studio by
Virgil Sturgill, folk singer of North
Carolina, originally from Kentucky. No list, July 17, 1963.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10095
Title: Virgil Sturgill Songs
Description: "The Murder of Lottie Yates," sung by Mrs.
Julia B. Kiser, Carter County, Kentucky.
Recorded by Virgil Sturgill, 1957. Together with songs and narrations of
Virgil Sturgill.
Inclusive Years: 1957
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11398
Title: Hiroko Sue / Music and Stories of the Hare Indians of the Northwest
Territories, Canada
Description: Music and stories of the Hare Indians of Northwest Territories,
Canada, recorded by Hiroko
Sue of Michigan State University, 1962. Indians, Canada - Hare
Inclusive Years: 1962
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12298-12302
Title: Suomalaissen Kirjallisuuden Seura [Finnish Literature Society]
Description: Two cassettes of Kalevalaic songs performed by Nelipolviset
(The Tetrametrics) with
accompanying booklet, "Kalevalaisia Lauluja: Sävelmät, Sanat
ja Selitykset" (Kalevalaic
Songs: Tunes, Words, and Explanations), issued by the Finnish Literature
Society in 1979,
and a booklet, "Perinnelipas 1: Lauluja, Loitsuja, Loruja" (Heritage
Notebook 1: Songs,
Rhymes, Riddles), selections from the Finnish Literature Society Folklore
Archive, 1977.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1979
Duration: 90 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24208-24209
Title: Survey of North American Cultures Scratch Atlas
Description: Produced for an atlas of North American cultures. Instigated
by W.E.H. Nicolaisen and
Wilber Zelinsky at Penn State in April 1974. Includes maps of ethnic groups,
settlement
patterns, food and drink, animals, plants, sports, music, language, etc.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: AFC 1974/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: A Survey of Traditional Systems of Boat Design Used in the Vicinity
of Trinity Bay,
Newfoundland and Hardangerfjord, Norway / David Alan Taylor
Description: Ph.D. dissertation on tradition boat design, entitled "A
Survey of Traditional Systems of
Boat Design Used in the Vicinity of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and Hardangerfjord,
Norway." David Taylor submitted the dissertation in 1989 to Memorial
University of
Newfoundland's Department of Folklore.
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1995/014
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ivan Sutton Kansas Recordings
Description: One 7-inch tape of two songs sung by Jack Staton and
seven songs sung by Ivan Sutton.
Also included are two radio commercials, a monolog by Sutton, and songs
sung by two
unidentified singers. Recorded in Pleasanton, Kansas, by Ivan Sutton, ca.
1950. The
collection includes a one-page list.
Duration: 00:40:00
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10495
Title: Morris Swadesh / Nootka and Makah Stories
Description: Nootka and Makah stories. Recorded by Morris Swadesh,
on an unknown date.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14368-14372
Title: Morris Swadesh / Stories in Chitimacha and Nootka
Description: Preservation copy of 22 cylinders of stories and sentences
in Chitimacha (Louisiana) by
Benjamin Paul and Dolphine Ducloux in 1931 and 1 cylinder in Nootka by
Alex Thomas,
1933. All recorded by Morris Swadesh.
Inclusive Years: 1931, 1933
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18472-18473
Title: Clara Le Grande Swan / A Collection of Ballads and Folk Songs from
Morning Sun, Iowa
Description: M.A. Thesis, State University of Iowa, 1929. Microfilm
Number: 97/1126
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John R. Swanton / Tlingit Indians
Description: Five 10-inch tapes of Tlingit Indian songs originally
recorded on cylinders by John R.
Swanton in Sitka, Alaska, January 9-March 21, and in Wrangell, March 22-May
5, 1904, for
the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. The collection
includes
twenty-one pages of notes.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17029-17030
Title: Lt. Alan Swartz Songs
Description: One 16-inch disc and one 12-inch disc of Lt. Alan Schwartz
of the Air Corps discussing life
in training camp at Montgomery, Alabama, and singing songs current in the camp.
Recorded at the Library of Congress, ca. 1942. Keywords: Army songs, military.
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6504-6505
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Sweeney / Congo Drums of Africa
Description: Congo drum music of Africa collected by Mr. and Mrs.
Edward C. Sweeney.
Inclusive Years: 1952-55
Duration: < 2hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10972-10977
Title: Pamela Swing Shetland Fiddle Music Honors Thesis Collection
Description: Honors thesis for a B.A. in music (from Wesleyan University)
entitled "Da Farder Ben Da
Wylcomer: Shetland Island Fiddle Music" by Pamela Swing, submitted
June 1976; has an
accompanying cassette of fiddle tunes performed by Cullivoe Traditional
Band, George
P.S. Peterson, Tom Anderson, Peter Fraser, George Stark, and Da Forty Fiddlers
- recorded
by Tom Anderson, ca. 1960, and Pam Swing 1973-1974.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1974
AFC Number: AFC 1977/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Symposium on Marketing Phonograph Records of American Folk Expression
Description: A symposium on marketing phonograph records of American
folk music and other forms of
folk expression, held June 7-8, 1982. Included sessions on contacting specialized
markets,
direct mail, marketing tools, and forms of governmental support.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: AFC 1982/014
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Eugenia Syriotis / Folksongs from Greece
Description: Folksongs from Greece, sung by Eugenia Syriotis (Mrs.
Eugenia Black) in Washington,
D.C., January 24, 1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13472
Title: Laszlo Szabo Recordings
Description: Kola-Lappish, Nenets (Yourak-Samoyed), and Wotic texts,
tales, and song recorded by
Laszlo Szabo in Leningrad, Russia, ca. 1959.
Inclusive Years: c.1959
AFC Number: AFC 1972/010
AFS Number: AFS 14662-14664
T
Title: Ward and Barbara Tabler / Josh White Recordings
Description: Josh White, Sam Gary, John Hawker, Bobby Wilson, and
Barbara Tabler recorded in
Berkeley, California, by Barbara and Ward Tabler, September 1955.
Inclusive Years: 1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19461-19470
Title: Michael Taft / Concordance of Blues Texts of Blind Lemon Jefferson
Description: Word concordance of 71 blues lyrics by Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Compiled by Michael Taft.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1974
AFC Number: AFC 1974/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Takoma Park Folk Festival Panel Discussion Collection
Description: Panel discussion conducted at the 2003 Takoma Park [Maryland]
Folk Festival, Sept. 7,
2003, Takoma Park Middle School, Abbott Stage. Participants included Peggy
Bulger,
Jennifer Cutting, Joe Hickerson, and Andy Wallace. The discussion was titled "Music
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