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Film, Video Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946

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Title

  • Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946

Summary

  • America's Upper Midwest is a distinctive region wherein a staggering array of indigenous, immigrant and enslaved peoples have collectively maintained, merged and modified their folk song traditions for more than two centuries. During the 1930s and 1940s, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Alan Lomax and Helene Stratman Thomas set up field studios in homes, hotels, community halls, church basements and parks throughout Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin to record roughly 2000 folksongs and tunes. Since the late 1970s, working incrementally with many generous individuals, partners, and organizations, folklorist Jim Leary has been part of a movement bent on bringing this body of extraordinary folk music of the Upper Midwest to the attention of the larger public.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-07-18.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Education
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Performing Arts, Music

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Jim Leary.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-07-18.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689168

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, -1946. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-18, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689168/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2013) Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, -1946. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-18. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689168/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, -1946. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-18, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689168/>.