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Film, Video Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index

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Title

  • Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index

Summary

  • Steve Roud discusses his work compiling The Folk Song Index, an online index to all the traditional folksongs of the English-speaking world. The Folk Song Index is a freely-available online database which lists English-language traditional songs collected in Britain, North America, and Australia, whether found in books, sound recordings, or unpublished collections. Entries include details of the song title and first line, name of singer, place and date of collection, and more. As each element is fully searchable, singly or in combination, the Index constitutes a major finding-aid for both enthusiasts and serious researchers. A sister database, The Broadside Index, lists songs which appeared on broadsides, songsters and other street literature before 1900, and is designed to assist those who are interested in the history of popular and traditional songs. In this presentation, Roud gives special attention to several exciting digitization projects already underway, and others planned for the near future, which have moved the project to an unprecedented level of sophistication and public accessibility.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2011-04-14.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Steve Roud.
  • -  Recorded on 2011-04-14.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688652

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-14, 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688652/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2011) Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-14. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688652/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-14, 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688652/>.