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Film, Video The Yank with the Box: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in 1950s Ireland

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Title

  • The Yank with the Box: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in 1950s Ireland

Summary

  • The American folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) has been marginalized in the histories of the many places where she worked during her twenty-year career, including North America, Europe, India, Asia, and the Middle East. The talk focuses specifically on her work in Ireland on the music of Conamara and the Aran Islands in 1955 and 1956, work that is largely unknown to music historians, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists. It presents for the first time to an American audience new research on Cowell's international work, research that has yielded fascinating insights into her oeuvre.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-09-20.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Literature
  • -  Cities, Towns
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Performing Arts, Music

Notes

  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Deirdre Ni Chonghaile.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-09-20.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688953

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Yank with the Box: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in s Ireland. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-20, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688953/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2012) The Yank with the Box: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in s Ireland. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-20. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688953/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Yank with the Box: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in s Ireland. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-20, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688953/>.