Contributor:
Morgan, Minta - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
Date:1937
Audio Recording
Armenian soldier's march
Yellow song check-list notes: Opening solo on oud. Jack Aslanian, violin; Bedros Haroutunian, qanun; Archie Krotlian, oud; Mesrout Takakjian, clarinet. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Fresno, California on April 23, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Aslanian's Armenian Orchestra performing Armenian and Armeno-Turkish dance music on April 23, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Fresno, California.
Contributor:
Aslanian, Jack - Takakjian, Mesrob - Aslanian's Armenian Orchestra - Krotlian, Archie - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Haroutunian, Bedros
Date:1939-01-01
Blog
Patrick Tayluer: The Man Behind the Sea Shanties
"These should rank with the best shanty and sea-song recordings ever made." So said the sea shanty expert William Main Doerflinger in May, 1942, describing the recordings he had recently made of the retired sailor Patrick Tayluer. Circumstances have conspired to keep those recordings under wraps, until this blog series. In this second post, we’ll hear another of his shanties (“Paddy Lay Back” or…
Contributor:
Winick, Stephen
Date:2024-09-18
Audio Recording
Soldier's joy
John Stone, violin. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Columbia, Tuolumne County, California on August 6, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting John Stone performing Anglo-American music on August 5 and 6, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Columbia, Tuolumne County, California.
Contributor:
Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Stone, John E.
Date:1939-01-01
Audio Recording
Soldier's joy
Pat Ford, harmonica. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Central Valley, California on December 27, 1938. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Pat Ford performing Anglo-American songs on December 25 and 27, 1938, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Boomtown [Central Valley], Shasta County, California.
Contributor:
Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Ford, Pat
Date:1938-01-01
Audio Recording
Soldier's joy
John Selleck, violin. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Camino, California on October 2, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting John Selleck performing Anglo-American music on the fiddle on October 2, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Camino, California.
Contributor:
Selleck, John N. - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date:1939-01-01
Audio Recording
Soldier's joy
Mrs. Ben Scott, violin; Myrtle B. Wilkinson, tenor banjo. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Turlock, California on October 31, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Mrs. Ben Scott and Myrtle B. Wilkinson performing Anglo-American music on the fiddle and tenor banjo on October 31, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Turlock, California.
Contributor:
Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Gould, Hattie Scott - Wilkinson, Myrtle B.
The Soldier's sweetheart
Dust jacket notes: "Sung by 'Boney' (Warde H. Ford) and Pat Ford. Learned from an old 'Kaintuck' in Wisconsin." Warde and Pat Ford, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Central Valley, California on December 27, 1938. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Warde Ford performing Anglo-American songs on December 25, 26, and 27, 1938 and September 4, 1939, collected…
Contributor:
Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Ford, Pat - Ford, Ward H.
Contributor:
Wood, Ray - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
Date:1939-04-13
Audio Recording
El soldado = The Soldier
Dust jacket notes: "Learned during 11 years in Mexico -- about 1920." Pablo Ruthling, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Carmel, California on January 19, 1939. In Spanish. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Pablo Ruthling performing an unaccompanied Spanish song from Mexico on January 19, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Carmel, California.
Contributor:
Ruthling, Pablo - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Son soldato fanteria = The Ghost soldier
Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "A Bersaglieri marching song." Giuseppe Russo, vocals and piano. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Pittsburg, California on March 29, 1939. In Italian. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Giuseppe Russo performing Sicilian and Italian songs, some in Neapolitan dialect, at times accompanying himself on the piano, on March 11 and 29, 1939,…
Contributor:
Russo, Joseph W. - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Contributor:
Unidentified Performers - Lomax, Alan - Szabo, Andy
Date:1938-08-08
Audio Recording
Layli Long Soldier reads and discusses Resolution 2 on August 14, 2020.
Resolution 2
Layli Long Soldier reads and discusses her poem "Resolution 2" on August 14, 2020, from her home in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Long Soldier is the author of WHEREAS (2017, Graywolf Press). She is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Contributor:
Long Soldier, Layli - Library of Congress. Poetry and Literature Center
Paul Brady, Carrie Grover, Bob Dylan, and “Arthur McBride”
A few years ago, I wrote an article in Folklife Center News about popular recordings inspired by AFC collection items. One of the ones I chose was Paul Brady’s version of an Irish ballad he called “Arthur McBride and the Sergeant” (see the lyrics at this link). In the article I revealed that Brady had …
Contributor:
Winick, Stephen
Date:2015-12-02
Blog
Natalie Merchant’s Concert Event Part 2: Archive Treasures Family Sing-Along
Watch Natalie Merchant’s June 15 sing-along concert at the Library of Congress right here on the blog! The singer, songwriter, activist, and folklife advocate helped the Library mark the opening of the new David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery with a very special Family Day sing-along presentation. Around the sing-along and her evening concert, she spent a week in residence at the Library doing research,…
Contributor:
Winick, Stephen
Date:2024-07-12
Blog
Spiders and Skin-Changers: Two African American Witch Tales for Halloween
It’s almost Halloween, and therefore time for spooky stories here at Folklife Today! Witches are, of course, a big part of American Halloween, and the witch is one of the most popular characters featured in costumes and decorations. These range from the standard image of a woman with a pointy hat and a broom, to …
Audio RecordingThe Southern Soldier
BlogPatrick Tayluer: The Man Behind the Sea Shanties "These should rank with the best shanty and sea-song recordings ever made." So said the sea shanty expert William Main Doerflinger in May, 1942, describing the recordings he had recently made of the retired sailor Patrick Tayluer. Circumstances have conspired to keep those recordings under wraps, until this blog series. In this second post, we’ll hear another of his shanties (“Paddy Lay Back” or…
Audio RecordingLayli Long Soldier reads and discusses Resolution 2 on August 14, 2020.
BlogPaul Brady, Carrie Grover, Bob Dylan, and “Arthur McBride” A few years ago, I wrote an article in Folklife Center News about popular recordings inspired by AFC collection items. One of the ones I chose was Paul Brady’s version of an Irish ballad he called “Arthur McBride and the Sergeant” (see the lyrics at this link). In the article I revealed that Brady had …
BlogNatalie Merchant’s Concert Event Part 2: Archive Treasures Family Sing-Along Watch Natalie Merchant’s June 15 sing-along concert at the Library of Congress right here on the blog! The singer, songwriter, activist, and folklife advocate helped the Library mark the opening of the new David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery with a very special Family Day sing-along presentation. Around the sing-along and her evening concert, she spent a week in residence at the Library doing research,…
BlogSpiders and Skin-Changers: Two African American Witch Tales for Halloween It’s almost Halloween, and therefore time for spooky stories here at Folklife Today! Witches are, of course, a big part of American Halloween, and the witch is one of the most popular characters featured in costumes and decorations. These range from the standard image of a woman with a pointy hat and a broom, to …