Manuscript/Mixed Material The Recording of Folk Music in California.
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Image 1 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. THE RECORDING OF FOLK MUSIC INCALIFORNIA SIDNEY ROBERTSON COWELLREPRINTED FROMCALIFORNIA FOLKLORE QUARTERLYVOLUME I - NUMBER I - JANUARY, 1942- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 2 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 7 The Recording of Folk Music in California No DISCUSSION of folk music in the western United States should be undertaken without a reminder that the Anglo-Saxon tradition is very young there....- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 3 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 8 CALIFORNIA FOLKLORE QUARTERLY Emigration to California has always reflected economic pressures: the present influx of families from the drought areas and the Dust Bowl is adding new elements to the folk...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 4 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 9 parts of the United States or the Old World from which the music came. The Spanish-California songs are something of an exception, as is to be expected from their relationship to...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 5 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 10 his collection. (6) Some recordings of singing by Mexicans and by Indians (in Spanish) are included, and it is believed there are a few songs in English, though these have never...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 6 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 11 were obviously learned from hillbilly and cowboy radio singers, but others offered interesting evidence of an old folk tradition newly uprooted and transported bodily to California. In December, 1938, Miss Margaret...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 7 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 12 The plan of the work provided for the collection of sound recordings, photographs, film books on 35-mm- film, and working drawings of folk and popular instruments, as the basis for the...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 8 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 13 Mr. Graham is completely absorbed in music and was usually to be found singing to himself, guitar in hand, so intent he was deaf to all but the most vigorous knocks...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 9 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 14 full of vigor and fun; a few of them are farther removed than others from the sage repertory of the 'seventies and 'eighties. The third ballad singer, Warde Ford, traveled by...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 10 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 15 in the foothills of the Coast Range east of the Salinas Valley. There was an old violin in the family which her older brothers encouraged her to play by equipping it...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 11 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 16 stage, probably in minstrel shows. They are still fairly widely sung, and illustrate the popular-to-folk cycle in its early stages. A Cornishman now living in Marin County, who sailed into San...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 12 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 17 include a number of children's game songs. In general, Spanish-Californian informants prefer to sing the nostalgic love songs popular in their youth. These are sometimes of folk origin, but in general...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 13 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 18 are several Christmas songs and songs for the festivals of St. John and the Feast of the Holy Ghost, th latter the greatest celebration of the year for Azores Islanders. It...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 14 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 19 Armenian girl of today in the United States, who, despite the fact that she is herself the daughter of a farmer, disdains any husband but a professional man. No farmer for...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 15 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 20 freedom much as the Puritans did. The elders in the group, handsome old men with long beards, are not only the religious, but also the civil governors of the community. Decisions...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 16 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 21 last two or three tones of the preceding verse - was smiled at by everybody present and helped out by one of the older men. The men's and women's sections are...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 17 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 22 Other music, small in amount but of real interest to the folklorist, was recorded by Sicilian fishermen in Martinez, by a young man from an island off northernmost Norway, and by...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942
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Image 18 of The Recording of Folk Music in California. 23 and the Sephardic Jews all have important material to contribute and are not now included at all. For most of these groups no such recordings as are now possible with modern...- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- Date: 1942