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Title: Les Raber / "Come Dance With Me" fiddling
collection
Description: These audiocassettes each contain 22 fiddle tunes played
by Raber, a total of 44 tunes,
many with uncommon titles. Raber's repertoire includes older quadrilles,
waltzes, jigs,
reels, schottisches, and two steps in a style common to rural Michigan
before the influence
of the World Wars, the Fox Trot, and Appalachian fiddling styles. Raber is accompanied
by Bill Webster, hammered dulcimer; and Jim Vandenberg, guitar.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1996/075
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Radio Research Project Manuscript
Collection
Description: Correspondence, reports, radio scripts, and other notes
related to the Radio Research
Project.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: AFC 1941/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Radio Smithsonian / "AFS Centennial" Segment
Description: Radio Smithsonian program segment, produced by Nick Spitzer
(Folklife Programs), on the
American Folklore Society Centennial area of the 1988 Festival of American
Folklife, held
on the Mall, on an unknown date in 1988. [possibly aired Dec. 25, 1988?]
Inclusive Years: 1988
AFC Number: AFC 1989/002
AFS Number:
Title: Juan B. Rael Collection
Description: Thirty-six 12-inch discs of Mexican songs recorded in
Colorado and New Mexico by J.
Leslie Kittle and Juan B. Rael, July 29-August 11, 1940. The collection
includes fourteen
pages of lists and notes. AFS 3918-3927 includes material from Colorado.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: AFC 1940/002
AFS Number: AFS 3905-3940
Finding Aid: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?faid/faid:@field(DOCID+af999001)
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rghome.html
Title: Raices Musicales
Description: Raices Musicales (Musical Roots). Cassette produced from
a national tour, produced by the
National Council for the Traditional Arts," of music from Mexico and the
Hispanic
Southwest, October-November, 1988.
Inclusive Years: 1988
AFC Number: AFC 1988/017
AFS Number: AFS 24361
Title: Martha Champion Randle / Iroquois Recordings
Description: Ceremonial songs of Tonawanda Seneca longhouse. Recorded
by Martha Champion
Randle, 1936. Assisted by William N. Fenton, who made up notes and transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1936
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14387-14414
Title: Vance Randolph Collection
Description: The Vance Randolph Collection documents aspects of Ozark
life in the early 1940s.
Randolph made field recordings of folksongs and collected stories of life
in the Ozarks. The
collection also contains 213 graphic images. In addition to the material obtained
in the
field, Randolph accumulated an extensive number of newspaper clippings on a
wide variety
of subjects relating to the Ozarks, including local legends, history, language,
and sporting
activities.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1943, 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1941/001
AFS Number: AFS 5236-5336; 5364-5425; 6897-6904
Finding Aid: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?faid/faid:@field(DOCID+af000001)
Title: Vance Randolph / "Unprintable" Songs from the Ozarks Manuscript
Collection
Description: "Unprintable" Songs from the Ozarks, edited
by Vance Randolph, dated 1954. Contains
tests, scores and commentary on bawdy songs from the Ozarks.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: AFC 1989/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Stanley A. Ransom / Traditional Music of Long Island
Description: Two CDs and one audiocassette of sound recordings
and manuscript material performed by
Stanley A. Ransom ("The Connecticut Peddler") documenting traditional
music of Long
Island, New York.
Inclusive Years: 1997-1998
AFC Number: AFC 1997/028
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Willis M. Rapp / An Investigation of the Relationship of Vocal/Choral
Music to Selected
Wind Band Masterworks of Grainger, Holst, Milhaud and Vaughan Williams
Description: Dissertation: Kutztown University
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Stana Rasin and Barbara Lee / Czech and Slavic Folk Songs
Description: Czech and Slavic folk songs. Recorded in the studio by
Stana Rasin and Barbara Lee of
Air Research Section, April 17, 1949. Includes texts.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9782
Title: Steve Rathe / Interview with "Peg Leg Sam" (Arthur Jackson)
Description: Interview with "Peg Leg Sam" (Arthur Jackson)
at the National Folk Festival, August 3, 1975,
Steve Rathe, interviewer.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18804
Title: Steve Rathe / Western Swing Festival Project
Description: Speedy West and his Swing Band with Jimmy Bryant, Sons
of the Pioneers, Leon McAuliffe
and his Cimarron Boys. Guy Logsdon, emcee. Steel guitar, fiddle, guitar and
songwriting
workshops. Recorded by National Public Radio at the Tulsa Western Swing Festival,
State
Fair Grounds, Tulsa, Oklahoma. November 16, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19238-19248
Title: Steve Rathe / 1975 National Folk Festival
Description: Steve Rathe of National Public Radio interviewing Leonard
Emmanuel, hollerer, of Spivey's
Corner, North Carolina, and Richard Semprit of Baltimore, Maryland, leader
of the Trinidad
and Tobago Steel Drum Orchestra at the 1975 National Folk Festival.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19383-19384
Title: Nicholas Ray / South Dakota Recordings
Description: Records made in South Dakota for the WPA Recreation Project
by Nicholas Ray in 1939.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3673-3683
Title: Joan and Betty Raynor Recordings
Description: Record made by Joan and Betty Raynor at the Library of
Congress in the Phonoduplication
Laboratory, recorded by Alan Lomax, January, 1941. Songs from New Zealand.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/019
AFS Number: AFS 4421
Title: Readings from the Bhagavad Gita
Description: Readings from the Bhagavad Gita sung by Dr. Haridas T.
Muzumbar. Recorded at the Library
of Congress in the Recording Laboratory by Dorothy Spencer, May 24, 1946.
Inclusive Years: 1946
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13118-13119
Title: J. Russell Reaver / American Tall Tales Collection
Description: Tales from the South. Collected in 1950 by the Progressive
Farmer Company of
Birmingham, Alabama.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: AFC 1972/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Recording of Venda Music from Africa to Accompany John Blacking's
_How Musical is
Man?_
Description: Recording of Venda music from Africa to accompany _How
Musical is Man?_ by John
Blacking, University of Washington Press, 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19382
Title: Recordings from Fort Valley, Georgia
Description: Fifteen 12-inch discs of African American prayers and
songs recorded in Fort Valley,
Georgia, by Willis Laurence James, June-July 1943.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/003
AFS Number: AFS 7039-7053
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html
Title: Recordings of Barbara Bell
Description: Three 12-inch and three 16-inch discs of and interview
with and songs performed by
Barbara Bell of Minneapolis, Minnesota, recorded at the Library of Congress
by Alan Lomax
and Arthur Semmig, January 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6089-6091; 6311-6313
Title: Ola Belle Reed Photograph Collection
Description: 64 photographs of Country and Western singers active
in southeastern Pennsylvania and
northeastern Maryland in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Inclusive Years: 1930s-1940s
AFC Number: AFC 1976/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ola Belle Reed Duplication Project
Description: Recordings of the North Carolina Ridge Runners made ca.
late 1940s possibly at WDEL,
Wilmington, Delaware; performers living in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Also
Ola Belle
Reed, Alex Campbell, and the New River Boys, recorded 1968.
Inclusive Years: c.late 1940s, and 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14104-14105
Title: Robert Reeves / Menhaden Shantying Project
Description: Menhaden shanty recorded on board the Dewey, July 14,
1952, off the Gulf Coast by Robert
Reeves, friend of the boat's captain, Dewey Willis from Morehead City,
North Carolina.
Inclusive Years: 1952
Duration: 7 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19712
Title: Lucille Reilly / Hammered Dulcimer Demo Collection
Description: One cassette of autoharp and hammered dulcimer music
performed by Lucille Reilly ("The
Dulcimer Lady") of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with piano accompaniment
by Roberta
Bedor. Recorded at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, July
28, 1993. The
collection includes one page of correspondence, three fliers, and one black-and-white
promotional photograph.
Inclusive Years: 1990s
Duration: 10 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1996/059
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Elsie C. Reinhart / Notebook of Sewing Samples
Description: Book of sewing examples prepared by Miss Elsie C. Reinhart
for a sewing course. Sandra
Tinkham, a textile specialist from the Library of Congress Exhibits Office,
estimated that the
book dates between 1890-1920. Ms. Tinkham felt that the notebook demonstrated
plainsewing garment work appropriate to the training of a housemaid rather
than a
seamstress. She also felt that the book was probably compiled by a teacher
rather than by a
student, perhaps as part of a display for Parents' Day or some other school
function.
Inclusive Years: 1890-1920
AFC Number: AFC 1977/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Renfro Valley Barn Dance
Description: Three 7-inch tapes of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and
Homecoming Show recorded in
Renfro Valley, Kentucky, by Reuben Powell of the Renfro Valley Tape Club,
June 20, 1970.
Also includes instrumentals and songs performed by Russell Fluharty (hammered
dulcimer), Doc Hopkins, and Bradley Kincaid. The collection includes a
one-page content list.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14248-14250
Title: Martin Ressler / Old Order Amish Lob-song
Description: Lob-Song recorded at Old Order Amish worship service
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
May 31, 1972, by Martin E. Ressler.
Inclusive Years: 1972
Duration: 30 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17472
Title: Dwight F. Rettie / The Peasant's Lyre Manuscript Collection
Description: One bound, retyped manuscript of _The Peasant's Lyre:
A Collection of Miscellaneous
Poems by George Scroggie. Originally printed by William Bennett, Aberdeen,
Scotland,
1857. Forward (p. [2]) by Dwight F. Rettie.
Inclusive Years: 1850s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard Reuss / Israel "Izzy" Young Interview
Description: Sixteen 5-inch and one 7-inch tapes of an oral history
interview regarding the urban folksong
revival with Israel "Izzy" G. Young, founder of the Folklore Center
in New York City. Recorded
by Richard A. Reuss, July 8, 1965-March 26, 1969. The collection includes five
pages of
content lists and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1965-1969
Duration: 18 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19799-19815
Title: Richard Reuss Folksong Revival Project
Description: Music of the folksong revival, recorded from commercial
discs and at concerts by Richard
Reuss. Performers include Ian Campbell, Guy Carawan, New Lost City Ramblers,
and
Rising Sun Steel Band (Antigua). Also a ballad tape, with examples by many
performers.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19816-19821
Title: Songs and Stories by Emory Rexrode
Description: Songs and stories by Emory Rexrode, Monterey, Virginia.
Recorded by Bruce R. Richardson.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19391
Title: Robert Reynolds / Canary Island Whistle Speech Duplication Project.
Description: Recordings made in 1972 by Robert Reynolds of "El
Silbo Gomero," an indigenous
language among inhabitants of Gomero, Canary Islands.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21856
Title: George Reynolds / Katherine O'Neill Peters Sturgill Collection
Description: Sentimental songs, sermons, poems, gospel songs performed
by Kate Sturgill and others.
Recorded by Kate Sturgill on home disc machine in early 1950s.
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: AFC 1980/004
AFS Number:
Title: Willard Rhodes
Description: American Indian music recorded by Willard Rhodes in the
summer of 1941. Locations
include Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. Sponsored by the
Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12097-12138
Title: Willard Rhodes Recordings
Description: Fifty-eight 12-inch discs of American Indian music recorded
in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas,
New Mexico, and South Dakota by Willard Rhodes, summer 1942 and 1943, for
the Bureau
of Indian Affairs. The collection includes thirty-five pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12139-12196
Title: Willard Rhodes
Description: American Indian music recorded by Willard Rhodes in the
summer of 1949. Locations
include Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Sponsored by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12263-12295
Title: Willard Rhodes / American Indian Recordings
Description: Eight 10-inch tapes of music by North American Indian
tribes including Apache, Cherokee,
Comanche, Creek, Hopi, Kiowa, Navajo, Pawnee, Shoshone, and Tlingit, as
well as
Ecuadorian Indian and Eskimo music. Recorded in Arizona, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Utah, and
Wyoming by Willard Rhodes, June 1951-July 1952, and in Oregon by Louise
B.
Johannaber, 1952, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14618-14623
Title: Willard Rhodes Dakota and Sioux Recordings Collection
Description: American Indian music (mostly Dakota/Sioux) recorded
by Willard Rhodes in the summer of
1940. Sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. No listing.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10453-10485
Title: Willard Rhodes Recordings
Description: Seven 12-inch discs of American Indian music recorded
in Kansas and Oklahoma by
Willard Rhodes, summer 1943, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The collection
includes
two pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12197-12203
Title: Dave Ricker Recordings
Description: Earl Collins, fiddle, occasionally accompanied by Dave
Ricker and Bess Hawes. Collins is
originally from Oklahoma. Recorded in Downey, California, by Dave Ricker,
October-November, 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14458
Title: Johannes Riedel / Folksongs from Minnesota
Description: One 10-inch tape of an instrumental and nineteen songs
in English, Norwegian, and
Swedish recorded by students of Johannes Riedel, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, April-August 1961. The collection includes thirteen pages of
notes and twelve
pages of textual transcriptions.
Duration: 25 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11911
Title: Ralph Rinzler / Claudie Marcel-Dubois Project
Description: Louisiana Creole and Acadian songs and dance music on
violin, accordion, guitar, triangle
and drum by the Balfa Brothers, Sadie Courville and others. Interview re: music,
musicians
and musical customs. Recorded November 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19874-19877
Title: Ralph Rinzler Duplication Project
Description: Doc Watson and family, Clarence Ashley, Fred Price, Clint
Howard, Gaither Carlton, Garley
Foster, Bill Monroe, and others recorded from 1960-1965, at home concerts,
festivals, and
workshops by Ralph Rinzler and others. Includes vocal and instrumental
music, interviews,
and storytelling, recorded in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1965
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19559-19600
Title: Rio Grande Arts Center / "Tradiciones del Valle" Collection
Description: One hundred eighteen 7-inch tapes of Anglo-American fiddle
tunes and songs, and
primarily Hispanic popular and traditional musical forms; also includes
customs,
interviews, proverbs, riddles, and stories. Recorded in the San Luis Valley
of Southern
Colorado and Northern New Mexico by Dana Everts, May September 1985, for
the Rio
Grande Arts Center. The collection includes two linear inches of notes.
Includes penitente
songs, alavados, comdos, canciones, versos, and dance band music; also
interviews,
storytelling, proverbs, riddles, oraciones, customs, and verbal remedies
documented.
Fieldwork intended for production of radio programs produced by KRZA public
radio in
Alamosa. Funded by Folk Arts Program of NEA and by the Colorado Council
on the Arts
and Humanities Folk Arts Program
AFC Number: AFC 1986/023
AFS Number: AFS 26270-26387
Title: Wm. Van Riper / Linguistic Atlas of North American Collection
Description: Fieldwork tapes for Linguistic Atlas of Oklahoma. Includes
Anglo-American, Choctaw,
Kiowa/Osage. Includes Wm. Van Rip[er].
AFC Number: AFC 1984/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Walter W. Ristow / Charles Greeley Abbott Collection
Description: Sea shanties learned from Admiral Moore in 1907, and
recitations learned in school, ca.
1883, performed by Charles Greeley Abbott, former Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Recordist, place, and date unknown.
Inclusive Years: 1880s, early 1900s
AFC Number: AFC 1985/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: J.D. Robb New Mexico Recordings
Description: Spanish-American folk songs recorded by J.D. Robb in
New Mexico in 1944.
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6144-6151
Title: J.D. Robb / Music of the Southwest
Description: Folk and Indian music of the southwest. Recorded by Professor
J. D. Robb in New Mexico
and Arizona, 1950s. University of New Mexico Indian, American - Southwest
Spanish-American
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12332-12342
Title: J.D. Robb / Folk Music of the Southwest
Description: Sixty-three 7-inch and two 5-inch tapes of principally
Mexican American music; also
includes music from Mexico, Nepal, Spain, and Venezuela. Recorded by John
Donald Robb
in New Mexico and elsewhere, 1939-73. Principally Spanish-American, but also
American
Indian and Anglo (cowboy, instrumental, etc.). Possibly includes recordings
from El
Inclusive Years: 1939-1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15459-15523
Title: Helen H. Roberts American Indian and Pacific Island Recordings Collection
Description: Sixty-nine 12-inch discs of music and spoken word recorded
originally on wax cylinders in
California, East Africa, Hawaii, Jamaica, Montana, New Mexico, Samoa, Tahiti,
and Tonga
by Martha Beckwith, Henry E. Crampton, Frank Hurley, Bernice M. King, Walter
McClintock,
Helen H. Roberts, Claude Schaeffer, and others. Donated by Helen H. Roberts,
1936. The
collection includes forty-two pages of lists and notes. Performers include:
Cream Antelope,
Duck Head, Big Moon, Whitegrass, Dog Ears, Jim White Calf, Blood Jim, Dandy
Jim,
Stingy, Moonik, Big Top Knot, Big Moon, Bear Shoe, Mad Wolf (Siyeh), Many Tail
Feathers,
Running Crane, Mountain Chief, Hairy Coat, Makes Cold Weather, Rides to the
Door,
Russell, and others.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 751-819
Title: Daniel Robinson Fiddling Project
Description: Fiddling by Daniel Lanice Robinson (1885-1970). Recorded
summer 1951 in Winchester,
Tennessee by Bruce Robinson. Includes a short introduction by Ruth Dietrich.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19236
Title: Andrew Roblin and the Pocono Mountain Men Audiocassette Collection
Description: "Hip bluegrass" music. Contains the following
songs: "Lucky Trapper's Reel," "Doing My
Time," "Deal," "Peach Picking Time," "Festival
du Voyageur," "Valerie's Waltz," "Temperance
Bear," "Red River Jig."
Inclusive Years: 1990s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/057
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Rochester Museum of Arts / Iroquois Indian Music
Description: Five 16-inch discs of thirty-five Iroquoian songs duplicated
from originals at the Rochester
Museum of Arts and Sciences, New York, as part of the William N. Fenton
Project, 1948.
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9596-9600
Title: Lalo Rodriguez and Maria Castillo / Mexican American Farm Workers'
Songs
Description: Mexican American farm-workers' songs sung by Maria Aurora
Castillo and Conrado "Lalo"
Rodriquez of California in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress,
August 5,
1974. Recorded by Mike Heisley, Joseph C. Hickerson, Robert Carneal, John
B. Howell,
and Ed Tittel.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 65:45
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17114
Title: Kirby Rogers / Mable Hillary Recordings
Description: Concert by Negro folksinger, Mable Hillary at Brunswick
Junior College, Brunswick, Georgia,
February 24, 1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
Duration: 40 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14169
Title: Anne Romaine / Folksongs Sung by Nancy Arrington
Description: Folksongs sung by Mrs. Nancy Arrington, Swannanoa, North
Carolina, 1967.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13159
Title: David Romas / Central Michigan University Marching Band Song Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of bawdy American songs collected
by Mike Fitzpatrick and David
Romas. The majority of the songs were performed by the bawdy singer and
pianist known
as "Vollbey." The rest of the songs, as well as the recordings
and narration were performed
by David Romas. The audiocassettes are accompanied by 3 copies of a 59-page
manuscript entitled "Central Michigan University Marching Band: 'The Marching
Chippewas:'
Bawdy Songs, Chants and Limericks." The manuscript contains a complete
song list and
textual transcriptions. The collection was originally intended to aid the research
of Ed Cray
of the University of Southern California for the updated version of his book
_The Erotic
Muse: American Bawdy Songs_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992).
Inclusive Years: late 1970s-1996
AFC Number: AFC 1997/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Paul Roseland Alaska Music Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes, four CDs, and forty-one pages of
manuscripts documenting Klondike
gold rush, cowboy, and logging songs from Dawson, Alaska, and the state
of Alaska. The
collector, Paul Roseland, performs all songs. Recordings include: "Alaska
Folk Songs:
1864-1977," "Gold Rush Collections: 1849-1941," "Traditional
Cowboy Songs:
1880s-1950s," and "Traditional Logging Songs: 1853-1930." The
two audiocassettes are
unpublished versions of two CDs. The manuscripts consist of lists, melodic
and textual
transcription, notes, and photographs.
AFC Number: AFC 1997/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: James Rosellini / Music of Upper Volta (Burkina Fasso)
Description: Music of Upper Volta, recorded by James Rosellini 1970-1972.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15078-15083
Title: Art Rosenbaum Indiana Recordings
Description: One 7-inch tape containing twenty-three songs and ballads
sung by Verne Smelser, and an
interview. Recorded in Paoli, Indiana, by Art Rosenbaum, June 6, 1966.
The collection
includes two pages of logs. [see also AFS 17,541-17,567, tape 29]
Inclusive Years: 1966
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18806
Title: Rosenbaum and Dunford / Oscar Parks and Swedish Fiddling Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of a song performed by Oscar Parks, recorded
in Alton, Indiana, by Patrick
Dunford and Arthur Rosenbaum, December 30, 1963; and six instrumental songs
by
Swedish fiddlers, Röjas Jonas and Pahl Olle, duplicated from a commercial
7-inch disc.
The collection includes one newspaper article in Swedish and a two-page
song list.
Sveriges Radio commercial phonodisc, _Svensk Folkmusik_.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12052
Title: Art Rosenbaum / Fiddle Music from Iowa
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of fiddle and string band music recorded
at the Old Settler's fiddle
contest at the Old Thresher's Reunion, and at a blues music workshop. Recorded
primarily
in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, by Art Rosenbaum, 1970-72. Includes the playing
of Lyman Enloe,
Smokey McGuiness, and Bob Black. Blues music workshop (1972) features Yank
Rachell,
Shirley Griffith, and J. T. Adams.
Inclusive Years: 1970, 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18940-18942
Title: Art Rosenbaum Duplication Project
Description: Twenty-seven 10-inch tapes of blues, country, fiddle,
gospel, and other music recorded in
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire,
New York, and
Scotland primarily by Art Rosenbaum, 1958-71. Genres include country, fiddle,
gospel, and
blues music and Scottish ballads by various performers: Pete Franklin,
Shirley Griffith, Yank
Rachell, Scrapper Blackwell, John Summers, Louis Riendeau and "Doc" Oscar
Parks. Also
Albert Hash, Dwight "Red" Lamb, Elvin Campbell, H.E. "Pappy" Wells,
Silver Light Gospel
Singers, Bert Hare, migrant farm workers, Mary McBride Heekin, White / Whyte
family,
Clester Hounchell, J.M. Stone, Omie Rose Helton, Ed & Max LeBlanc, Old
Threshers'
Reunion, Fidel Martin
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17541-17567
Title: Bruce Rosenberg Duplication Project, Part II
Description: Negro sermons recorded by Bruce A. Rosenberg ca. 1968.
Sermons by Rev. Hays, Lockett,
Manner, Marcia Proctor (?), Grooms (?) Broadcasts on WELK-Charlottesville,
Virginia. See
also 14,557-68
Inclusive Years: c.1968
Duration: 6.25 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14586-14587
Title: Neil V. Rosenberg Bluegrass Music Collection
Description: Open-reel audio tape recordings and cassettes of live
bluegrass shows at Bean Blossom,
Indiana, and dubs of commercial bluegrass records and radio broadcasts.
Inclusive Years: c. 1954-1968
AFC Number: AFC 2002/009
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Laura E. Ross Spiritual Recordings
Description: Spirituals recorded by Laura E. Ross, Music Supervisor
of District V, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on Feb. 8, 1945.
Inclusive Years: 1945
AFC Number: AFC 1945/005
AFS Number: AFS 6178
Title: Kathleen Johnson and James Rosselini / Upper Volta Duplication Project,
Part IV
Description: Bwaba and Lobi music. Recorded by Kathleen Johnson and
Jim Rosselini, 1973 to 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18800-18801
Title: Upper Volta James Rosselini and Kathy Johnson Duplication Project,
Part III
Description: Mossi, Hansa, Bissa Bella, Lobi, Birifor, Bwaba, Fulani,
Yoruba, Belemsobgo, Toma and
Tougan music. Recorded by Kathy Johnson 1973-1975.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18754-18761
Title: Kathleen Johnson and James Rosselini / Upper Volta Duplication Project,
Part V
Description: Music from various peoples in the Upper Volta region
of Africa. Recorded by Jim Rosselini
1973 to 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18807-18848
Title: James Rossellini / Music of the Upper Volta, Africa (Burkina Fasso)
Description: Music of Upper Volta, Africa, recorded by James Rosellini,
1969-1970.
Inclusive Years: 1969-1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14251-14252
Title: Nick Royal Collection
Description: Recordings made by Nick Royal in 1974 and 1975 that include
conversation and fiddling by
traditional fiddlers Hansel Smith and Rob Propst and guitarist Jess Smith,
Franklin, West
Virginia.
Inclusive Years: 1974-1975
AFC Number: AFC 1991/025
AFS Number:
Title: Nick Royal Duplication Project
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of instrumentals performed on banjo,
fiddle, and guitar, with interviews,
by Nowell Creadick, Ken Godwin, Robert Propst, Hansel "Buck" Smith,
and Woody
Simmons. Recorded in Elkins and Franklin, West Virginia, primarily by Nick
Royal,
September 28 December 8, 1974. The collection includes nine pages of concordances,
correspondence, fieldnotes, and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 1.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17480-17481
Title: Nicholas N. Royal / The Use of Folk Music in the Teaching of United
States History
Description: Thesis: University of Chicago
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: The Ruth Rubin Yiddish Folk Music and Folklore, Part III
Description: Yiddish folksongs and folklore recorded by Ruth Rubin
in New York, Canada, and Israel,
1950s-1960s; and by Norman Cazden in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1954-1956.
Inclusive Years: 1950s-1960s: Rubin; 1954-1956: Cazden
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14665-14695
Title: The Ruth Rubin Collection of Yiddish Folksong and Folklore
Description: Recorded by Ruth Rubin primarily in Montreal and Toronto,
Canada, and New York City
between 1947 and 1964, with additional recordings in London, England, 1962.
Inclusive Years: 1947-1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13504-13553
Title: The Ruth Rubin Collection, Part 4
Description: Four 7-inch tapes of ninety-six Hebrew and Israeli songs
from the United States, Europe,
Israel, and Palestine sung by Ruth Rubin and others. Recorded primarily
by Ruth Rubin in
New York City, 1947-67. The collection includes thirteen pages of correspondence,
content
lists, and notes. Other singers include Betty Granatstein, Chana Factor, Shlomit
Tubim,
Mary Michaels, S.J. Rodman, S. Zachar [?].
Inclusive Years: 1948-1967
Duration: 5 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19253-19256
Title: Ruth Rubin / Yiddish Songs of the Holocaust
Description: Lecture and performance of Yiddish songs from World War
II concentration camps sung
and translated by Ruth Rubin.
Inclusive Years: 1940s
AFC Number: AFC 1989/013
AFS Number:
Title: Robert E. Ruckman / Hillbilly Music
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals performed on banjo,
fiddle, guitar, and steel guitar by the
Victory Hillbillies (Gilbert and Ferdinand Coates, Mr. Dempsey, and Herbert
Ruckman),
originally of Ruckman, West Virginia. Duplicated from discs recorded in
Washington, D.C.,
in the 1930s. The collection includes three pages of correspondence and
lists.
Inclusive Years: ca. late 1930s
Duration: 21:08
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14556
Title: Ry'l'ski Institute Ukrainian Cylinder Collection
Description: Encompasses ethnographic materials collected by Ukrainian
ethnologists in the early
twentieth century (ca. 1908-1930s) and represents oral traditions of several
ethnic regions
now situated in present day Ukraine. The collection features original archival
materials from
the Ryl’s’kyi Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology
(Kiev, Ukraine), which loaned
ca. 200 wax cylinders to the American Folklife Center (AFC) for restoration
and duplication.
Field recordings constitute the largest body of archival materials in the collection
with
approximately 400 vocal and instrumental compositions representing several
regional
genres and performances. Of significant note are recordings of blind minstrels
(e.g.,
kobzari, lirnyky), who practiced their folk art form prior to the 1930s. They
were recorded by
Ukrainian ethnographers before the repressive Stalinist purges and collectivization
programs, which decimated this distinctly Ukrainian performance practice.
Inclusive Years: 1908-1930s
AFC Number: AFC 1992/005
AFS Number: N/A
S
Title: H. Karl Saalbach / Reminiscences of Gerhard J. Duerksen Family
Description: Reminiscences of the Gerhard J. Duerksen family. Compiled
by Mrs. Anton Schmidt and Mr.
Alvin Duerksen.
Inclusive Years: 1878-1975
AFC Number: AFC 1989/026
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Samoan music / Marine Corps recordings
Description: Samoan music duplicated from the U.S. Marine Corps Collection
in the Library (MBRS
division). Music is only a small portion of this collection; also included
are thousands of
Marine Corps Personnel (personal messages) to people back home. D-Day on
Guam and
other combat situations were recorded.
Inclusive Years: 1942-1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10832
Title: San Diego Folk Festival, 1975
Description: Duplication of the official, original tapes of the San
Diego Folk Festival, April 16-20, 1975:
Will Spires, Sam Chatmon, Benny and Jerry Thomasson, and Wilbur Ball.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19541-19544
Title: Helga Sandburg Songs Collection
Description: Songs by Helga Sandburg, with guitar. Recorded at the
Library of Congress in Studio A, by
Rae Korson, November 6, 1963.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12030
Title: Jack Santino / Halloween Lecture Collection
Description: Lecture given by Jack Santino on the beliefs and customs
associated with Halloween,
sponsored by the American Folklife Center, with an introduction by Joseph
C. Hickerson,
Head of the Archive of Folk Culture. Recorded in the Whittal Pavilion of
the Library of
Congress, October 29, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22498
Title: Edward Sapir / Kutchin Cylinder Recordings
Description: Kutchin spoken-word cylinder recordings made by Edward
Sapir at Camp Red Cloud,
Pennsylvania, summer of 1923, from John Fredson, Kutchin Indian from Ft.
Yukon, Alaska.
Textual transcriptions and translations by Edward Sapir; melodic transcriptions
(of speech
tones?) by George Herzog. These materials are part of a larger collection
of Kutchin
linguistic data entrusted to Mary Haas by Sapir and his executors.
AFC Number: AFC 2000/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Interviews Regarding Sasquatch
Description: Interview concerning beliefs and legends current in states
of Washington and Oregon
regarding "Sasquatch." Recorded November 27, 1973, by Judge Norman
T. Custis in
suburban Washington, D.C.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17599
Title: Geraldine Saunders Songbook
Description: Photocopy of a songbook compiled by Myrtle Edna Brewster
Duncan of New Mexico during
the 1920s and 1930s.
Inclusive Years: 1920s-1930s
AFC Number: AFC 1979/010
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Robert Sayers / Doc Williams Collection
Description: Fiddle tunes by Doc Williams of Flagstaff, Arizona, along
with discussion of his life in the
saddlemaker's trade in Arizona and New Mexico. Recorded by Robert Sayers
in Flagstaff,
Arizona, November 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22499
Title: James Scancarelli / Fiddle and Banjo Music
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of instrumentals and songs recorded
in North Carolina, Virginia, and
West Virginia by James Scancarelli, May 23 August 16, 1969. The collection
includes
twelve pages of fieldnotes. Includes Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Frank
Rayborn,
Norman & Jimmy Edmonds, M. Samples, Chick Martin, Wade Ward, J. Scancarelli,
Arthur
Leake Caudle, Wilson Douglas.
Inclusive Years: 1964-1969
Duration: < 5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14088-14090
Title: Myron B. Schaeffer Collection
Description: Recorded in Panama by Myron Schaeffer, January and July,
1943. List.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7318-7323
Title: John M. Schechter / Ecuador-Quechua Collection
Description: Solo and ensemble songs and instrumental performances;
interviews in Quechua and
Spanish; festivals; holiday and burial rites; lesson-interviews with master
harpist Don Cesar
Muquinche; and instruction in the Quechua language by Enrique Andrade Albuja.
Recorded by John M. Schechter in Highland, Ecuador, November 1979-September
1980.
Inclusive Years: 1979-1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24124-24203
Title: Nicolas G. Schidlovsky Old Believers Collection
Description: Twenty-six 10-inch tapes of Old Believers' services and
religious singing, and copies of a
published recording of Russian church bells and religious chant. Recorded
in Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
and Washington,
D.C., by Nicolas G. Schidlovsky, 1972-85. The collection includes seven
photographs, a
six-page brochure entitled "Old Believers," and one linear inch
of concordances, notes,
photocopies of chant notations, recording logs, and early Slavic neumes.
Inclusive Years: 1974-1982?
AFC Number: AFC 1987/031
AFS Number: AFS 25956-25981
Title: Don Schmidt / Old Colony Mennonite Duplication Project
Description: One 5-inch tape of Old Colony Mennonite Church singing
recorded by Helen Enz near
Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico, ca. 1960.
Inclusive Years: c.1960
Duration: 5 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14576
Title: School of American Research Cylinder Duplication Project, Part II
Description: Twelve 10-inch tapes copied from cylinders of American
Indian and Mexican music and
spoken word. Recorded by Ernest Beaglehole, Helen H. Roberts, and members
of the 1931
Ethnology Field Training Group. Acquired on exchange from the School of
American
Research, 1979. American Indian tribes: Acoma, Cochiti, Santa Clara, San
Ildefonso,
Taos, and Tesuque Pueblo, Hopi, Mescalero Apache.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19502-19513
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Adolf E. Schroeder / Fiddle Tunes Recordings
Description: Fiddle tunes recorded at reception honoring publication
of _Old Time Fiddlers' Repertory_
by R. P. Christeson at the University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17027-17028
Title: Rebecca Schroeder / Library Collections of Ohio Folksong
Description: Thesis: Kent State University
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Schuyler Arts Folk Music Project Collection
Description: Folk music of the Rushville (Schuyler Co.) area,Illinois,
documented in the 1987 Schuyler
Arts Folk Music Project, which was funded by the Illinois Arts Council.
Performances of
and interviews with 19 area singers, fiddlers, guitarists, harmonica players,
hammered
dulcimer players, instrument makers, and square dance callers. Also includes
photos of
performers. Intended as general survey of folk music in Schuyler and surrounding
counties.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1991/014
AFS Number:
Title: Abraham A. Schwadron "Chad Gadya" Collection
Description: Sixteen 7-inch tapes of over one hundred and sixty versions
of the Passover song “Chad
Gadya” (One Kid), recorded in various parts of the United States
and the world. Compiled by
musicologist Abraham Schwadron, between 1973-1985, during his time at University
of
California Los Angeles. The collection includes one linear foot of background
research,
correspondence, indexes, informant information, logs, publicity, one box
of index cards, four
black-and-white photographs, and writings by Schwadron.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1985
AFC Number: AFC 1988/026
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/schwad.html
Title: John Schwarz / 1900 Paris World's Fair Recordings
Description: 3 cylinders from collection in Musee de l'Homme, Paris,
from John Schwarz who visited the
Library of Congress, November 12, 1970. Includes delegations from Hanoi
and China at
1900 Paris World's Fair, and a field recording from Algeria.
Inclusive Years: 1900
Duration: 20 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14300
Title: Seattle Folklore Society Collection
Description: Recordings of Jack Elliott, Mike Seeger, Roscoe Holcomb,
Elizabeth Cotten, Booker White,
Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Mills Family, Mike
Russo, Son
House, Robert Pete Williams, Gary Davis, Big Joe Williams, Fred McDowell,
Mance
Lipscomb, Sam Hinton, Kilby Snow and the Seattle Folklore Society Benefit.
Logs in many
tape boxes.
AFC Number: AFC 1995/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Second Northeast Old-Time Fiddler's Convention, 1964
Description: Two reels of recordings from the Second Annual Northeast
Oldtime Fiddlers' Convention,
October 1964. Performers include Lawrence Older, Dudley Laufman, Earl Eddy,
Glen
Meyers, Tom Azarian, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19362-19363
Title: Charles Seeger WPA South Carolina Recordings, 1939
Description: Seven discs of songs and spirituals, including several
accompanied on banjo and bones.
Recorded by Charles Seeger on Brevard Plantation, Adams Mill, near Columbia,
South
Carolina, March 1939. Deposited by the Joint Committee on Folk Arts, WPA.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3789-3795
Title: Charles Seeger Commercial Recordings Collection
Description: Folk music from various parts of Africa and from Switzerland,
recorded in 1930s and 1940s [
?]. Pressings labeled "Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire" with
further
information in script on labels.
Inclusive Years: 1930s and 1940s (?)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14607-14616
Title: Charles Seeger / "Song and the Compositional Processes" Collection
Description: Lecture entitled "Song and the Compositional Processes" given
by Charles Seeger in the
Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress, June 11, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: AFC 1985/003
AFS Number: AFS 19881-19882; SR1-2
Title: Mike Seeger Collection / Recordings of Kate Sturgill, Scott Boatright,
and Luther Bryant
Description: Recordings of Kate Sturgill (Greenville, Tennessee, Dec.
31, 1968), Scott Boatright (near
Coeburn Virginia, Jan. 2, 1969), and Luther Bryant (Troutville, Virginia,
Jan. 5, 1969).
Inclusive Years: 1968-1969
Duration: 63 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13718
Title: Mike Seeger collections / Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, and Sam Bowles
Recordings
Description: One 5-inch tape of instrumentals recorded in Maryland
and Ohio by Mike Seeger, July 1955
and February March 1971. The collection includes a one-page list. Includes
two banjo
duets by Earl Scruggs and Don Reno recorded in a contest at Rising Sun,
Maryland, July
24, 1955. Nine steel guitar instrumentals by Sam Bowles, Centerville, Ohio,
1971.
Inclusive Years: 1955; 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18962
Title: Mike Seeger Collection
Description: Two hundred and seventy-five 10-inch tapes of bluegrass,
country, and folk music, recorded
in California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia, primarily
by Mike
Seeger, 1953-67. The collection includes three linear inches of computer disks,
correspondence, notes, and photos. These tapes supplement his collections already
in the
archive. Includes some examples made by other collectors, including recordings
of
autoharpist, John Kilby Snow recorded by Blaine Jaeger. Bluegrass music predominates
this collection. A number of the tapes were recorded from radio and TV programs.
Bluegrass performers represented include Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl
Scruggs, the
Stanley Brothers, Don Reno, and Red Smiley. Tapes also include interviews with
country
music artists of the 1920s and 1930s including Tom Ashley, Sam and Kirk McGee,
Ernest
V. Stoneman, Gid Tanner, and Frank Walker. In their reminiscences with Seeger,
they
speak of many other old-time musicians whom they knew and worked with, life
on the road,
musical sources, etc., thus making this collection a source of important historical
information on early country music.
Inclusive Years: 1920s-1960s
AFC Number: AFC 1995/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Mike Seeger Collection, Part I
Description: Beanblossom (Indiana) Bluegrass Festival, 1971; Elizabeth
Cotten, guitar, Park City, Utah,
1974; Otis Pierce, 12 string guitar; Tommy Collins, interview; Cousin Emmy,
w/piano ;
Strange Creek Singers Seminar; Johnny Shines, blues w/guitar.
AFC Number: AFC 1982/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Pete Seeger Oberlin College Concert, 1955
Description: One 10-inch tape of a concert performed by Pete Seeger
of Beacon, New York. Recorded at
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, by Stephen Lee Taller and others, April
16, 1955. The
collection includes six pages of lists and four pages of photocopies of
the concert programs.
Inclusive Years: 1955
Duration: 2 hrs. 10 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17502
Title: Pete Seeger / Sloop Singers Concerts (1971)
Description: Pete Seeger and the Hudson River Sloop Singers Concerts,
November 12th and 13th, 1971
at the Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: AFC 1988/010
AFS Number: AFS 26172-26176
Title: Nancy-Jean Seigel Collection of Helen Hartness Flanders Material
Description: Recordings of Helen Hartness Flanders reading poems from
her book, "Country News Items
and Other Poems". The collection also contains two copies of this
poetry book and
photocopies of correspondence between Helen Hartness Flanders and Phillips
Barry. Also
included is a sound recording of the Vancouver Folk Alliance panel of 2/16/01
on Flanders'
collection moderated by Nancy-Jean Seigel, with Margaret MacArthur and
Joe Hickerson.
Also, 2 (8 x 10 black-and-white) photographs of Flanders.
Inclusive Years: 1964-2001
AFC Number: AFC 1999/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: The Nancy-Jean Seigel / Helen Hartness Flanders Lecture Collection
Description: Sound recording and accompanying ephemera from a lecture
by Nancy-Jean Seigel titled
"
Granny Was a Songcatcher: Researching the Life and Work of Helen Hartness
Flanders"
given at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, May
4, 2002.
Inclusive Years: 2002
AFC Number: AFC 2002/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Veronica Seiler / "Young Czechs" Collection
Description: Czech songs with accordion accompaniment by the "Young
Czechs," a children's costumed
song and dance group from forestville, Wisconsin. Recorded by Veronica Seiler
and sent
to the Library of Congress through the office of Senator William Proxmire.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22183
Title: Mrs. Aleppo Seilo / Finnish Music
Description: One 10-inch tape containing kantele instrumentals, laments,
and Teppo Repo's
compositions for flute and reed pipe. Collected by Aleppo Seilo. Donated
through the
Kalevala Duplicating Project, ca. 1961.
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11879
Title: Surya Sena / Sri Lankan Songs
Description: Sinhalese folk music and folk music of other lands of
the Orient. Sung by Devar Surya
Sena, assisted by his wife, Nelun Devi. 1 reel recorded at the Library
of Congress in the
Studio and the other reel is a recording of the recital at the Library
of Congress in Coolidge
Auditorium, 1950. List in project folder. Keywords: Ceylon India
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10083-10084
Title: Stefan Senders / Tommy Jarrell Collection
Description: Banjo and fiddle tunes by Tommy Jarrell and Robert Sykes
of Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Collection also includes Bartie Reynolds on guitar, Stefan Senders on banjo,
and Melvin
Slater on fiddle. Recorded by Stefan Senders in Mount Airy and Ararat,
North Carolina, May
22-June 9, 1980.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22480-22484
Title: Seward Park High School / "Our Neighborhood" Manuscript
Collection
Description: A 279-page manuscript entitled "Our Neighborhood," composed
of recipes and stories
collected by students of Seward Park High School on New York City's Lower
East Side,
1985-86. The collection includes a one-page newspaper article.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Stephen Lee Taller / Ben Shahn Tapes Collection
Description: One 4-inch, four 5-inch, and two 7-inch tapes of sounds
of New York City, recorded by Tony
Schwartz; Pete Seeger singing Bob Dylan's "Who Killed Davey Moore?";
songs sung by
Suzanna Shahn; songs sung by John Jacob Niles; and the Schubert Octet II.
The tapes
were originally owned by Ben Shahn and donated by Stephan Lee Taller in
1993. The
collection includes published biographies of Tony Schwartz and Ben Shahn,
correspondence, notes, and recording logs. Focuses mainly on the work of
Tony Schwartz,
a "recorder of sound" from New York City. Three of the tapes
reflect his work in recording the
everyday sounds in New York, and are entitled "Adventures in Sound," "You're
Stepping on
My Shadow," and "About New York--A City of Sound." The last
is a version of Bob Dylan's
"
Who Killed Davy Moore," performed by Pete Seeger with crowd noise and
comments edited
by Tony Schwartz. Also among the collection are two tapes featuring Suzanna
Shahn, Ben
Shahn's daughter and an unknown accompaniment. She records a number of songs,
including "Bury Me Beneath the Willow." The final tape is a recording
of a John Jacob Niles
concert and the Schubert Octet II.
Inclusive Years: c.1950s-1960s
AFC Number: AFC 1995/033
AFS Number: N/A
Title: "Sharing the Harvest" / Australian Field Recordings Collection
Description: Sound recording titled "Sharing the Harvest: Field
Recordings from the Meredith Collection
in the National Library of Australia." Recordings made in Australia
by John Meredith
primarily between 1953 and 1958.
Inclusive Years: 1950-1960
AFC Number: AFC 2001/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Cecil Sharp / Index to Appalachian Collection
Description: 8 microfilm reels of manuscript: Harvard University Library,
Microfilm Number: 97/1124.
Related name: Maud Karpeles Index to the manuscript collection of folks
songs and
dances collection by Cecil Sharp.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John Sharp Fiddling Collection
Description: Fiddle tunes by John Sharp of northern Tennessee, with
guitar accompaniment. Copied
from home recordings he made for his family, ca. 1948-1950, possibly in
Jamestown,
Inclusive Years: 1948-1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22626
Title: John Shaw Lecture Collection
Description: Lecture on Gaelic music, primarily instrumental music,
given by John Shaw of Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia. Traces history of Gaelic music and discusses its expression in
Cape
Breton. Recorded by Dave Reich on Aug. 2, 1985, at Iona Parish Hall, Iona,
Cape Breton
Island, Nova Scotia.
Inclusive Years: 1985
AFC Number: AFC 1987/006
AFS Number: AFS 24460
Title: Hubert G. Shearin and Josiah Henry Combs / A Syllabus of Kentucky
Folk-songs
Description: Lexington, Kentucky: Transylvania Print Co., 1911. 43
pages. Microfilm Number: 97/1125
Inclusive Years: 1911
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard Riley Shepard / Encyclopedia: Traditional Music and Folk
Songs of the United
States, Vols. I and II
Description: Three volumes of manuscript materials: Two volumes of
the encyclopedia and one
photocopy of vol. II.
AFC Number: AFC 1979/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Josepha Sherman / "Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts" Children's
Rhymes Collection
Description: Josepha Sherman's archive of notes used in compiling
_Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The
Subversive Folklore of Childhood_ (Little Rock: August House Publishers,
1995).
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1998/027
AFS Number: N/A
Title: William J. (Jack) Sherrard Sea Stories and Chanties Collection
Description: Stories and chanties of the sea. Performed by William
J. (Jack) Sherrard.
Inclusive Years: 1966-1967
Duration: 2 hrs. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13054-13059
Title: William J. (Jack) Sherrard / Stories and Songs of the Sea
Description: Stories and songs of the sea, narrated and sung by William
J. Sherrard. Recorded by
Albert C. Brissette, Nelson, New Hampshire, 1967-68.
Inclusive Years: 1967-1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13480-13486
Title: Willliam J. (Jack) Sherrard / Sea Lore
Description: Narrative on the loss of the 7-masted schooner, "Thomas
W. Lawson" by William J.
Sherrard, Nelson, New Hampshire, 1969.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14171
Title: Francis W. Shield / Mrs. James Wilson Singing "Little Ida"
Description: One 3-inch tape of "Little Ida," discussed
and sung by Mrs. James Wilson, originally of
Ohio. Recorded by Francis W. Sheild (Mrs. Wilsons's granddaughter's husband)
in
Hampton, Virginia, July 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
Duration: 20 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14217
Title: Kathy and Joel Shimberg / Interview of John W. Summers
Description: Nineteen 10-inch tapes of fiddle tunes performed by John
W. "Dick" Summers and Fred
Weaver. Recorded in Marion and Upland, Indiana, by Joel and Kathy Shimberg,
December
1970, May 1972, and January 1973. The collection includes twenty-five pages
of
correspondence, data-sheets, logs, and song lists.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1973
Duration: 38 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17450-17468
Title: Shinnecock Indian Lullaby
Description: One 3-inch tape of a Shinnecock Indian lullaby sung by
Gladys Cuffey Collins (Princess
Wyandanch). Recorded in Sag Harbor, New York, by Dennis Starin, June 1966.
The
collection includes nine pages of an arrangement with English lyrics, correspondence,
a
newspaper article, and a transcription.
Inclusive Years: 1966
Duration: 2 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13052
Title: Karl Signell / "Music in a New World" Collection
Description: One cassette of interviews, narrations, songs, and stories,
including examples of
Afro-Cuban, Bosnian, Thai, and Turkish music, recorded at various locations
by Karl
Signell, February-April, 1981, and assembled as a preview of the "Music
in a New World"
series for National Public Radio. The collection includes twenty pages
of correspondence
and descriptions. Includes the music and stories of recent immigrant groups
in the United States.
Inclusive Years: 1981
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22185
Title: "Signs, Cures, and Witchery" Video Collection
Description: Videocassette recording of _Signs, Cures, and Witchery_
produced by Gerald Milnes,
Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins College, 2001. "A fascinating
glimpse of some
little-known Appalachian beliefs and practices among descendants of early
German
pioneers."
Inclusive Years: 2001
Duration: 57:30
AFC Number: AFC 2001/020
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John A. Silver / Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School
Collection
Description: Afro-American spirituals performed by teachers and others
at the Penn Normal Industrial
and Agricultural School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Includes
a spoken prologue,
and was used in the production of a film "To Live As Freemen." Recorded
on St. Helena
Island in 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1942
Duration: 65 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22485
Title: "Singing Our Stories" / Annie Frazier Henry Film
Description: A film by Annie Frazier Henry, Full Regalia/Omni Films,
broadcast initially on the Canadian
Public Broadasting network. A study of native women singers and the women
who
documented them. Includes interview with Judith Gray regarding Frances
Densmore, shots
of a cylinder machine on the Folklife Reading Room table, and a "re-enactment" of
a
cylinder machine recording with Pura Fe as the singer (filmed in the Poetry
Office space at
the top of the Jefferson Building, Library of Congress).
Inclusive Years: 1998
AFC Number: AFC 1998/025
AFS Number: N/A
Title: A.F. Sisson / Ozark Mountaineers Recordings Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of twenty-five songs sung with guitar
and harmonica by "The Ozark
Mountaineers" (Almus D. Sisson and Harold D. Sisson), originally of
Mountain View,
Arkansas. Recorded in Portland, Oregon, after 1942.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1940
Duration: 1 hr. 8 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12096
Title: A.F. Sisson / Songs from Arkansas
Description: Two Arkansas songs sung by Dr. Albert F. Sisson, Avondale,
Maryland. Recorded by Albert
Sisson, April 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: AFC 1973/014
AFS Number: AFS 15600
Title: 1628 Intern House Parties Collection
Description: The cassette contains 23 fiddle tunes performed by Alan
Jabbour and Scott R. Prouty, as
well as conversation and stories from the others present, including Archive
of Folk Culture
interns John C. DeMetrick of Wakefield, Rhode Island; Maris Jaagosild of
Tartu, Estonia;
and Sara Zoe Patterson of Hudson, New York, as well as her housemate Christiane
Lellig
of Saar, Germany, and Alan Jabbour's daughter Rebecca, of Berkeley, California.
It was
recorded on April 19, 1996, at 1628 15th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20009.
Sound
quality is good for the fiddle tunes and harder to distinguish for the
conversation.
Inclusive Years: 1996
AFC Number: AFC 1996/068
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Patrick Sky / "Patrick J. Touhey" Collection
Description: Skylar Productions recording entitled "Patrick J.
Touhey: Genius of the Uillean Pipes" (SK
1002), containing Irish uillean pipe reels, jigs, hornpipes, airs, and
marches. Copied from
tapes of 78 rpm discs and cylinder recordings originally recorded in the
early 1920s.
Produced and engineered by Patrick Sky, and distributed by Shanachie Records,
Inc., (c)
1985.
Inclusive Years: originally 1920s; 1985
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24221
Title: Gladys Slate / Indiana
Description: One 5-inch tape of twenty-one songs sung by Gladys Slate
of Flora, Indiana. Recorded by
her daughter Mrs. Dean A. Ross, September 19, 1962. The collection includes
a one-page
song list.
Inclusive Years: 1962
Duration: 35 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12058
Title: Katharine L. Small / The Influence of the Gospel Song on the Negro
Church
Description: M.A. Thesis, Ohio State University, 1945. Microfilm Number:
97/1102
Inclusive Years: 1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Caldwell Smith / Uganda Tribal Music
Description: Tribal music recorded 1954 in Uganda by Caldwell P. Smith.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14109
Title: Franklin G. Smith Military Folk Music
Description: One cassette containing the lecture "Military Folk
Song Since 1870,", given by Franklin
Smith including vocal examples with guitar. Recorded at Fort Bliss, Texas
as part of the Ft.
Bliss Bicentennial Lecture Series, May 12, 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1976
Duration: 90 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19179
Title: Martha L. Smith Autobiography Recordings
Description: Records made by Martha L. Smith in Washington, D.C.,
March 17, 1944, recorded by B. A.
Botkin and Arthur Semmig. Informant from Oklahoma, born 1852 in Missouri.
List
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: AFC 1944/014
AFS Number: AFS 7093-7096
Title: Stephen Smith / "Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing," Minnesota
Public Radio
Collection
Description: One 10-inch tape of a radio program entitled "Song
Catcher Frances Densmore of Red
Wing," about Densmore's life and her recordings of North American
Indian songs. Recorded
by Stephen Smith for Minnesota Public Radio and broadcast November 26, 1994,
on
National Public Radio's program "All Things Considered."
Inclusive Years: 1994
Duration: 24 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1995/011
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Smithsonian Institution / Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper Concert
Description: Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper concert at the Smithsonian
Institution, October 20, 1974.
Part of "Women in Country Music" series.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17446-17449
Title: Jack and Olivia Solomon Interview of Ruth Herren
Description: Jack and Olivia Solomon interview Ruth Herren at her
home in Tallahassee, Alabama in
1975. Miss Ruth sings folksongs with banjo accompaniment.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19356-19357
Title: Laurie Sommers / "Wiregrass Ways" Radio Series
Description: Laurie Sommers, director of the South Georgia Folklife
Project, donated a cassette copy of
"
Wiregrass Ways," her radio series which ran on Georgia Public Radio
in fall 1998 and on
WFSU (Tallahassee, Florida) in 1999. The 13-part series included hollering
recordings
from the Archive of Folk Culture's Francis Harper 1944 recordings. The
program topics
were: fiddle traditions (Thomasville & Valdosta), Sacred Harp singing
school and a sing
(Hoboken), making cane syrup (Willacoochee), gospel anniversaries (Lowndes
County /
Valdosta), palmetto brooms (Folkston), Fiestas Guadalupanas (Mexican fiesta
in Valdosta),
tobacco auctions (Nashville), hymn lining (Folkston, Valdosta), Mt. Zion
Music Hall (old-time
country and bluegrass music), turpentining (Folkston), mayhaw jelly (Valdosta,
Nashville),
hollering (Folkston).
Inclusive Years: 1998-1999
AFC Number: AFC 2001/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Songs Sung by the Priority Ramblers
Description: One 16-inch disc and one 12-inch disc of songs sung by
Jackie Gibson, Tom Glazer, Edna
Nell, and Josephine Schwartz of the Priority Ramblers, including seven
songs about
wartime America (World War II). Recorded at the Library of Congress by
Rae Korson and
Arthur Semmig, September 6, 1943.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/004
AFS Number: AFS 7054-7055
Title: Robert Sonkin / Gee's Bend and Palmerdale, Alabama, Collection
Description: Sixty-four 12-inch discs of conversations, interviews,
prayer meetings, rhymes, and songs.
Recorded at various locations in Alabama and New Jersey, by Robert Sonkin,
June 25-July
25, 1941. The collection includes one inch of content lists and textual
transcriptions.
Includes Gee's Bend and Palmerdale, Alabama. Only one disc (with 3 songs)
from New Jersey.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/018
AFS Number: AFS 5035-5098
Title: South Dakota Historical Society Collection
Description: Ten cassettes of interviews with master artist/apprentice
pairs participating in South
Dakota's Traditional Arts Program and two artist demonstration series at
the Cultural
Heritage Center in Pierre, South Dakota. Recorded and conducted by Michael
F. Miller,
October-November, 1992.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1995/012
AFS Number: N/A
Title: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection
Description: One hundred seventy-nine 7-inch tapes, one 5-inch tape,
and one hundred ninety-six
cassettes from the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection, a
field survey of
regional folklife including bluegrass music, children's hand games, crafts,
folk medicine,
foodways, gravestones, narratives, occupational folklore, religious music
and services, and
songs. Recorded in Georgia by Thomas Adler, Carl Fleischhauer, Alan Jabbour,
William
Lightfoot, Howard Marshall, Beverly J. Robinson, and David Stanley, July-August
1977.
Cosponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Arts Experiment Station
of Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College. The collection includes nine linear feet
of documentation
and logs.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: AFC 1982/010
AFS Number: AFS 20874-21249
Title: Dudley "Babe" Spangler, J.W. Spangler, and Maggie Wood
Recordings
Description: Fiddle and string band music by Dudley "Babe" Spangler,
J.W. Spangler and Maggie Wood,
recorded at Mt. Airy, North Carolina and Danville, Virginia, 1948-1949.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17474
Title: Elmer Sparks / Interview with Ex-Slave Celia Black
Description: Celia Black, 115 year old ex-slave, interviewed by Elmer
Sparks at the Colonial Mannor
Nursing Home, Tyler, Texas, 75701, on October 11, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17476
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
Title: Elmer Sparks / Charlie Smith Ex-Slave Narrative
Description: Interview with Charlie Smith, 130 year old African-born
ex-slave and former cowboy, logger,
migrant farmer, and member of the Masonic Rite. Conducted by Elmer Sparks
in Bartow,
Florida, March 17, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17510
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
Title: "The Spirit Cries" Symposium and Reception
Description: Four videocassettes of "The Spirit Cries" symposium
and reception, American Folklife
Center, Library of Congress, March 15, 1993.
Inclusive Years: 1993
Duration: 4 hrs (appx.)
AFC Number: AFC 1993/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Nick Spitzer Louisiana Folk Music
Description: Roy Beckham on fiddle and Willie May Deason on guitar,
from Hico, Louisiana. Recorded
by Nicholas Spitzer and Susan Roach.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19445
Title: Nick Spitzer / Folk Masters 1992 Season Collection
Description: Thirteen audiocassettes of radio programs derived from
live performances and on-stage
interviews from the "Folk Masters" series held at The Barns of
Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia.
Originally recorded April 1-May 8, 1992. The collection includes a thirty-two
page "Listener's
Guide to Programs." Programs include: "Parlor Picking, Frolic Fiddling
and Juke Joint
Blues," "Black Gospel Styles," "Masters of the Folk Violin," "American
Indian Music," "Music
from the Spanish Caribbean and Central America," "Guitar Wizards," "African
Roots,"
"
Accordion Kings," "Blues and Bluegrass in the American Capital," "Europe
in America,"
"
Rockabilly and Western Swing," "New York Klezmer and New Orleans
Jazz," and "New
World Beat."
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1995/007
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Fred McDowell
Description: Blues and sacred music by Fred McDowell accompanied by
his friends and family. Vocal
and guitar. Recorded by Richard Spottswood on Easter weekend, 1962, at
the McDowell
home in Como, Mississippi.
Inclusive Years: 1962
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17594-17598
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / S.D. (Sady) Courville "Recorded Letter"
Description: A "recorded letter" from S. D. (Sadie) Courville
to Richard K. Spottswood. Courville's
reminiscences concerning his early musical career in Louisiana dance halls
are followed
by performance of three Cajun fiddle tunes by S. D. Courville (fiddle),
Dennis McGee (fiddle),
and Marc Savoy (fiddle). Recorded by S. D. Courville for Richard Spottswood.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19373
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Four Blues Singers Welfare Case Files & Interviews
Collection
Description: Richard K. Spottswood has donated copies of five documents
relating to four prominent
blues singers: Rev. Gary Davis (77 pages), Blind Boy Fuller (20 pages),
Mississippi John
Hurt (89 pages), and Skip James (171 pages). Two are copies of welfare
case file
documents (of Blind Boy Fuller and Rev. Gary Davis), two are transcripts
of interviews with
Mississippi John Hurt, and one, having the format of a draft for a book,
is possibly derived
from interviews with Skip James.
Inclusive Years: 1931-1948; 1963; and unknown
AFC Number: AFC 1998/024
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music Recordings
Description: Cajun music played on accordion, fiddle, drum, and guitar
by Tee Neg and the Abbeville
Playboys. Recorded May 4, 1975 by Richard Spottswood in Abbeville, Louisiana.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17568-17571
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Dubs of Commercial 78s
Description: Dub of miscellaneous jazz, western swing, and Spanish
language commercial 78s.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17572
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Ray and Ina Patterson Recordings
Description: Hillbilly vocal and instrumental music played on guitar
and mandolin by Ray and Ina
Patterson. Recorded by Richard Spottswood in Tucson, Arizona, April 26,
1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17573-17576
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music
Description: Cajun music played on guitar accordion, drum, fiddle
and steel guitar by the Louisiana
Aces (D.L. Menard, Terry Cormier, Bobby Estilette, Mike LeJune, Raymond
Francois,
Elwood Hebert) recorded by Richard Spottswood in Rayne, Louisiana, May
3, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 3 hrs, 45 mins
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17577-17583
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / John Cephas Recordings
Description: Negro blues singer and guitar player John Cephas, recorded
by himself at D.C. National
Guard Armory, mid 1975, and by Mike Rivers, Joseph Wilson and Richard Spottswood
at
Silver Spring, Maryland, June 9, 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1975-1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18723-18724
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music
Description: Cajun music played on guitar, steel guitar, fiddle, accordion,
and triangle, by S.D. Courville,
Nathan Abshire, Preston Manual, Ambrose Thibodeaux, and Glady Thibodeaux. Recorded
live during broadcast of Revon Reed's "Mamou Hour" over Radio KEUN
by Richard
Spottswood in Eunice, Louisiana, May 11, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17589-17593
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Wyla ("chicken scratch") Music
Description: Wyla (or "chicken scratch") band music played
on accordion, alto sax, fiddle, 12-string
guitar, etc., by Papago Indians: Mike Enis and his group. Recorded by Richard
Spottswood,
April 1975, in Arizona.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17621-17623
Title: Richard K. Spottswood and Maury Berstein / Swedish Dalarna Fiddling
Description: Four 7-inch tapes of Swedish Dalarna fiddling played
by Paul Dahlin, Bruce Johnson, and
Edwin Johnson. Recorded at radio station KSJN, St. Paul, Minnesota, by
Maury Bernstein
and Richard K. Spottswood, January 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 55 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17639-17642
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Wilbert "Chief" Ellis and John
Cephas Recordings
Description: Black blues pianist Wilbert "Chief" Ellis plays "The
Gambler;" black blues guitarist John
Cephas plays three cuts of "John Henry." Recorded by Richard
Spottswood in Hyattsville,
Maryland, June 1, 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18469-18470
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music and Interview
Description: Interview and Cajun music played on fiddle, accordion
and guitar with vocal
accompaniment, by Dewey Segura, D. L. Menard, and Camille Duplantis. Recorded
by
Richard Spottswood, May 5, 1975, in Delcambre, Louisiana.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17585-17588
Title: Richard K. Spottswood and Jim Griffith / Ed Smith Fiddle Tunes
Description: Fiddle and string band music played by Ed. Smith et al.
Recorded by Dick Spottswood at
home of Jim Griffith, Tucson, Arizona, April 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17986-17990
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Cajun Music
Description: Cajun music played by Dennis McGee, Sady Courville, Marc
Savoy on fiddle, accordion, etc.
Recorded by R. Spottswood at Chatagnier, Louisiana, May 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17624-17626
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Interview with Les Soileau
Description: Interview (no music) with Les Soileau, pioneer Cajun
fiddler recorded by Richard
Spottswood in Ville Platte, Louisiana, May 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17636-17637
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Fiddle Music
Description: Fiddle music played by Clarence Langen, etc. in Thatcher,
Arizona, April 1975, by Richard
K. Spottswood.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17627-17635
Title: Richard K. Spottswood / Blues and Children's Songs
Description: Blues and children's songs sung and played on guitar
by George and Ethel McCoy.
Recorded by Richard Spottswood in the McCoy home in East St. Louis, Illinois,
September
28, 1975. Includes interview.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17991-17994
Title: Gilbert A. Sprauve / Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Collection
Description: One audiocassette of two Dutch Creole stories paraphrased
into English Creole by Gilbert
A. Sprauve of the College of the Virgin Islands, and re-translated into
Dutch Creole by Alice
Stevens of St. John; includes an introduction by Gilbert Sprauve and a short
interview with
Alice Stevens concerning her learning of Dutch Creole. Recorded through the
auspices of
WTJX-TV and the Enid Barr Library in the Virgin Islands, May 1983. The collection
includes one-half linear inch of correspondence, notes, and transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1983
Duration: 32 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22603
Title: Square Dance Legislation Collection
Description: Administrative materials, correspondence, dance publications,
newspaper articles, as well
as legislation documentation from the 98th Congress to designate the square
dance as the
national dance.
Inclusive Years: 1975 to present (1995)
AFC Number: AFC 1984/024
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/squaredance.html
Title: St. Eustacious / John Allen Collection
Description: One 10-inch tape of interviews and songs recorded on
St. Eustatius Island, Netherlands
West Indies, by John W. Allen, sometime before June 1963. Keywords: Dutch
West
Indies; Netherlands West Indies
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12009
Title: Thomas Standeven, Jr. / John Vesey, Sligo Fiddler, CD project
Description: 2 CDs containing 42 pieces performed by John Francis
Vesey (Sligo fiddler --- 1924-1995),
accompanied by Edward Cahill (flute), Peter Canice Fahy (fiddle, flute,
uilleann pipes),
Michael McIntyre (flute), and Martin J. Wynne (fiddle). The 2nd CD concludes
with a slow
air on uilleann pipes by Standeven. The recordings were made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Inclusive Years: 1954-1975
AFC Number: AFC 1999/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jack Stanesco Duplication Project
Description: Whaling songs and sea chanties recorded on St. Vincent's
Island, British West Indies, ca.
1968-1970, by Jack Stanesco. Also some recordings by Krister Malm in the
West Indies.
Inclusive Years: c.1968-1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14222
Title: Ron Stanford / Florence and Sam Reece Recording Project
Description: Interview of Florence and Sam Reece, with songs by Florence
Reece. Recorded in
Tennessee by Ron Stanford, June 3-7, 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14588-14589
Title: Gary Stanton / "Music of Alan Jabbour" Broadcast Collection
Description: A "Music Down Home" radio program entitled "The
Music of alan Jabbour," containing fiddle
tunes and an interview with Alan Jabbour, conducted by Gary Stanton, "The
Radio Ranger;"
includes old-time music with Sandy Bradley and Tommy Thompson of the Fuzzy
Mountain
String Band. Recorded at WFIU-FM, Bloomington, Indiana, October 21, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23157
Title: Mary Agnes Starr / French voyageur songs sung by Reuben Valley
Description: 1 7-inch reel of French voyageur songs sent by Mary Agnes
Starr. Sung by Reuben Valley
(100 years old) of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10494
Title: Omer C. Stewart / American Indian Recordings
Description: American Indian Peyote and other songs recorded by Omer
C. Stewart among the Northern
Paiute, Washo, Ute (including Comanche, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Miwok, Navajo
and Shoshone
songs) in Colorado, Nevada and California, 1938 etc.: also recorded for
Ruth M. Underhill by
Frank S. Speck among the Arapaho in Oklahoma, 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1938, 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15090-15097
Title: A Stitch in Time: African American Quilters of Oakland
Description: Half-hour television special on African American quilts
and quiltmakers from Oakland,
California. Broadcast on KGO-TV, channel 7, San Francisco, on Jan. 20,
1991, 6:30 p.m.
Includes interviews with Maya Angelou and Niki Giovanni, as well as quilters
Charles Cater,
Willie Ette Graham, and Bettie Phillips.
Inclusive Years: 1991
AFC Number: AFC 1991/010
AFS Number:
Title: Ben Stonehill Duplication Project
Description: Nine 10-inch tapes of songs of European Jewish immigrants.
Originally recorded on wire in
New York City by Benjamin Stonehill, 1948. The collection includes one-eighth
linear inch
of song lists and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1948
Duration: 18 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12365-12373
Title: The Story of Thomas Wolfe's Life Made by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton
Description: The story of Thomas Wolfe's life made by Mrs. Mabel Wolfe
Wheaton in the Recording
laboratory of the Library of Congress January 21, 1947.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8952-8960
Title: Don Stover Interview Collection
Description: Interview with Don Stover conducted by Alan Jabbour and
Don Wilson; includes banjo
playing by Stover. Recorded in Studio A of the Library of Congress, April
27, 1979.
Inclusive Years: 1979
AFC Number: AFC 1985/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jack and Katherine Strain / Spanish Folk Music from New Mexico
Description: Spanish folk music from New Mexico. Performers include
Vincentito Montoya, Margarito
Olivas, Jose Archuleta, Julia Jaramillo, Pablo Trujello, Jose Romero, and
Remijia Romero.
Collected in 1977-1978 by John Loeffler and Katherine Strain.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19632-19710
Title: Virgil Sturgil Recordings
Description: Folk songs of North Carolina recorded in the Studio by
Virgil Sturgill, folk singer of North
Carolina, originally from Kentucky. No list, July 17, 1963.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10095
Title: Virgil Sturgill Songs
Description: "The Murder of Lottie Yates," sung by Mrs.
Julia B. Kiser, Carter County, Kentucky.
Recorded by Virgil Sturgill, 1957. Together with songs and narrations of
Virgil Sturgill.
Inclusive Years: 1957
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11398
Title: Hiroko Sue / Music and Stories of the Hare Indians of the Northwest
Territories, Canada
Description: Music and stories of the Hare Indians of Northwest Territories,
Canada, recorded by Hiroko
Sue of Michigan State University, 1962. Indians, Canada - Hare
Inclusive Years: 1962
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12298-12302
Title: Suomalaissen Kirjallisuuden Seura [Finnish Literature Society]
Description: Two cassettes of Kalevalaic songs performed by Nelipolviset
(The Tetrametrics) with
accompanying booklet, "Kalevalaisia Lauluja: Sävelmät, Sanat
ja Selitykset" (Kalevalaic
Songs: Tunes, Words, and Explanations), issued by the Finnish Literature
Society in 1979,
and a booklet, "Perinnelipas 1: Lauluja, Loitsuja, Loruja" (Heritage
Notebook 1: Songs,
Rhymes, Riddles), selections from the Finnish Literature Society Folklore
Archive, 1977.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1979
Duration: 90 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24208-24209
Title: Survey of North American Cultures Scratch Atlas
Description: Produced for an atlas of North American cultures. Instigated
by W.E.H. Nicolaisen and
Wilber Zelinsky at Penn State in April 1974. Includes maps of ethnic groups,
settlement
patterns, food and drink, animals, plants, sports, music, language, etc.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: AFC 1974/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: A Survey of Traditional Systems of Boat Design Used in the Vicinity
of Trinity Bay,
Newfoundland and Hardangerfjord, Norway / David Alan Taylor
Description: Ph.D. dissertation on tradition boat design, entitled "A
Survey of Traditional Systems of
Boat Design Used in the Vicinity of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and Hardangerfjord,
Norway." David Taylor submitted the dissertation in 1989 to Memorial
University of
Newfoundland's Department of Folklore.
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1995/014
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ivan Sutton Kansas Recordings
Description: One 7-inch tape of two songs sung by Jack Staton and
seven songs sung by Ivan Sutton.
Also included are two radio commercials, a monolog by Sutton, and songs
sung by two
unidentified singers. Recorded in Pleasanton, Kansas, by Ivan Sutton, ca.
1950. The
collection includes a one-page list.
Duration: 00:40:00
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10495
Title: Morris Swadesh / Nootka and Makah Stories
Description: Nootka and Makah stories. Recorded by Morris Swadesh,
on an unknown date.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14368-14372
Title: Morris Swadesh / Stories in Chitimacha and Nootka
Description: Preservation copy of 22 cylinders of stories and sentences
in Chitimacha (Louisiana) by
Benjamin Paul and Dolphine Ducloux in 1931 and 1 cylinder in Nootka by
Alex Thomas,
1933. All recorded by Morris Swadesh.
Inclusive Years: 1931, 1933
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18472-18473
Title: Clara Le Grande Swan / A Collection of Ballads and Folk Songs from
Morning Sun, Iowa
Description: M.A. Thesis, State University of Iowa, 1929. Microfilm
Number: 97/1126
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John R. Swanton / Tlingit Indians
Description: Five 10-inch tapes of Tlingit Indian songs originally
recorded on cylinders by John R.
Swanton in Sitka, Alaska, January 9-March 21, and in Wrangell, March 22-May
5, 1904, for
the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. The collection
includes
twenty-one pages of notes.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17029-17030
Title: Lt. Alan Swartz Songs
Description: One 16-inch disc and one 12-inch disc of Lt. Alan Schwartz
of the Air Corps discussing life
in training camp at Montgomery, Alabama, and singing songs current in the camp.
Recorded at the Library of Congress, ca. 1942. Keywords: Army songs, military.
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6504-6505
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Sweeney / Congo Drums of Africa
Description: Congo drum music of Africa collected by Mr. and Mrs.
Edward C. Sweeney.
Inclusive Years: 1952-55
Duration: < 2hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10972-10977
Title: Pamela Swing Shetland Fiddle Music Honors Thesis Collection
Description: Honors thesis for a B.A. in music (from Wesleyan University)
entitled "Da Farder Ben Da
Wylcomer: Shetland Island Fiddle Music" by Pamela Swing, submitted
June 1976; has an
accompanying cassette of fiddle tunes performed by Cullivoe Traditional
Band, George
P.S. Peterson, Tom Anderson, Peter Fraser, George Stark, and Da Forty Fiddlers
- recorded
by Tom Anderson, ca. 1960, and Pam Swing 1973-1974.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1974
AFC Number: AFC 1977/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Symposium on Marketing Phonograph Records of American Folk Expression
Description: A symposium on marketing phonograph records of American
folk music and other forms of
folk expression, held June 7-8, 1982. Included sessions on contacting specialized
markets,
direct mail, marketing tools, and forms of governmental support.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: AFC 1982/014
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Eugenia Syriotis / Folksongs from Greece
Description: Folksongs from Greece, sung by Eugenia Syriotis (Mrs.
Eugenia Black) in Washington,
D.C., January 24, 1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13472
Title: Laszlo Szabo Recordings
Description: Kola-Lappish, Nenets (Yourak-Samoyed), and Wotic texts,
tales, and song recorded by
Laszlo Szabo in Leningrad, Russia, ca. 1959.
Inclusive Years: c.1959
AFC Number: AFC 1972/010
AFS Number: AFS 14662-14664
T
Title: Ward and Barbara Tabler / Josh White Recordings
Description: Josh White, Sam Gary, John Hawker, Bobby Wilson, and
Barbara Tabler recorded in
Berkeley, California, by Barbara and Ward Tabler, September 1955.
Inclusive Years: 1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19461-19470
Title: Michael Taft / Concordance of Blues Texts of Blind Lemon Jefferson
Description: Word concordance of 71 blues lyrics by Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Compiled by Michael Taft.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1974
AFC Number: AFC 1974/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Takoma Park Folk Festival Panel Discussion Collection
Description: Panel discussion conducted at the 2003 Takoma Park [Maryland]
Folk Festival, Sept. 7,
2003, Takoma Park Middle School, Abbott Stage. Participants included Peggy
Bulger,
Jennifer Cutting, Joe Hickerson, and Andy Wallace. The discussion was titled "Music
from
the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture."
Inclusive Years: 2003
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 2003/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: William H. Tallmadge Duplication Project
Description: Nine 10-inch tapes of Baptist lining-out hymns recorded
in Knott County, Kentucky, and
Lima, Ohio, by William H. Tallmadge, May-July, October 1968. The collection
includes two
linear inches of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1968
Duration: 70 min. on the 1 tape copied
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13672-13680
Title: William H. Tallmadge / Songs from Kentucky and North Carolina
Description: Marie Hays singing near Hindman, Kentucky, July 1978.
Elder Pierce Todd singing near
Sparta, North Carolina, June 30, 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19370
Title: Carlie Tart and Vida Belle Tart Recordings
Description: Sung by Carlie Tart, and his sister, Vida Belle Tart,
of Benson, North Carolina, with guitar
by Carlie Tart, Recorded in the Recording Laboratory of the Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C., September 20, 1944. Recorded by B. A. Botkin and Arthur
Semmig.
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7598-7599
Title: David A. Taylor / Working in Paterson: Documenting Heritage in Paterson,
New Jersey
Description: Lecture sponsored by the American Folklife Center in
the series _Notes from the Field_
titled "Working in Paterson: Documenting Occupational Heritage in
Paterson, New Jersey"
by David A. Taylor (American Folklife Center staff). August 28, 1996.
Inclusive Years: 1996
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 1996/085
AFS Number: N/A
Title: David L. Taylor / Russell Fluharty Dulcimer Recordings
Description: One 5-inch tape of instrumentals performed on hammered
dulcimer by Russell Fluharty of
Mannington, West Virginia. Recorded by David L. Taylor, October 14, 1972.
The collection
includes a photocopy of the tape box and a one-page list.
Inclusive Years: 1972
Duration: 24 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1974/009
AFS Number: AFS 17006
Title: John Taylor / Tom Carns Duck Calling Collection
Description: One cassette of an interview with Tom Carns concerning
his skill in "hiking" (imitating duck
calls by mouth). Interview conducted and recorded by John Taylor in Burlington,
Iowa,
November 7, 1983.
Inclusive Years: 1983
Duration: 11 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22604
Title: Malcolm Taylor / Looking for Folk in the Vaughan Williams Memorial
Library
Description: Lecture sponsored by the American Folklife Center titled "Looking
for Folk in the Vaughan
Williams Memorial Library: A discussion of traditional music in England,
collected since
the nineteenth century." Delivered by Malcolm Taylor, head librarian,
Vaughan Williams
Memorial Library, November 1, 1994.
Inclusive Years: 1994
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 1994/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Telapna: We--Zuni Verbal Art
Description: Zuni storytelling recorded in Zuni and in English in
August 1988 and in January 1989,
documenting 15 storytellers. The field tapes produced 19 Zuni language
radio programs
(aired on KSHI-FM radio in Dec. 1989) and 10 English radio programs. Collections
includes field tapes and completed programs, as well as transcriptions
and translations
(although not all recordings were completely translated -- see final report).
Inclusive Years: 1988-1989
AFC Number: AFC 1991/007
AFS Number:
Title: L. Parker Temple Singing Folk Songs
Description: L. Parker Temple singing folk songs at the Library of
Congress in the Studio, April 5, 1948.
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9132
Title: "Pick" Temple Wire Recording Collection
Description: L. Parker ("Pick") Temple II was a popular
folksinger in the Washington D.C. area during the
late 1940s and 1950s. The collection samples Temple's radio performances
from January
1948 through March 1949, as well as his appearance on a panel discussion
on folksong
with Duncan Emrich in April 1950. Emrich was a noted folklorist and was
then director of
the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1950
AFC Number: AFC 1996/070
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Tennessee Arts Commission Folk Arts Program / A Tennessee Homecoming
Collection
Description: Radio program produced by the Tennessee Arts Commission
Folk Arts Program and
distributed by National Public Radio for broadcast October 27, 1986. Show
presents
highlights from Tennessee's program at the 1986 Smithsonian Festival of
American Folklife
in Washington, D.C. Narrated by John Hartford. Listening January 8, 1987: Performers
noted on broadcast announcement as presented on tape. Produced by Bruce Nemerov
and
Robert Cogswell; written by Charles K. Wolfe. Complete program title: _A Tennessee
Homecoming: Folk Arts at the Smithsonian's 20th Festival of American Folklife_.
Performers include fiddlers Frazier Moss and Bob Douglas; blues musician Jessie
Mae
Hemphill; balladeer Johnny Ray Hicks; storyteller Parks Townsend; blues pianist
Booker T.
Laury; gospel groups The Fairfield Four, the Duck Creek Quartet, and the Hemphill
Singers;
string-jazz band Armstrong, Bogan and Armstrong. Rockabillies the Original
Sun Rhythm
Band; and blues artists the Fieldstones; and moonshiner (?) Hamper McBee. Other
topics
include folk medicine, barbeque, sawmilling, marble-making, and the Rolley
Hole marble
game.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/032
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Tennessee Valley Old-Time Fiddlers Convention, 1968-1969
Description: Second and Third Annual Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers'
Conventions, Athens,
Alabama, October 1968 and 1969.
Inclusive Years: 1968-1969
Duration: 190 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14164-14165
Title: Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention 1970 and 1971
Description: Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddler's Convention 1970 and
1971, Athens College,
Alabama. Recorded by Doug Crosswhite.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1971
AFC Number: AFC 1972/007
AFS Number: AFS 14650-14651
Title: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Folklife Project Collection
Description: Discussion at American Folklife Center Board of Trustees
meeting, February 23, 1979,
regarding a contract offered by Interagency Archeological Services (IAS)
and the Army
Corps of Engineers for a folklife survey. Speakers include Raye Virginia
Allen, Edward
Danson, Archie Green, Wayland Hand, Alan Jabbour, Bennie Keel, Ralph Rinzler,
and Jane
Sapp. Recorded February 23, 1979, at the Library of congress by the American
Folklife
Center. Documentation includes 92 file folders of materials related to the
proposed project.
Inclusive Years: 1979
AFC Number: AFC 1983/002
AFS Number: AFS 23721-23724
Title: The 10th Annual World Folk Music Association Benefit Concert
Description: Sound recording of the 10th Annual World Folk Music Association
Benefit Concert. Held at
the Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University in Washington, DC,
January, 1995.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/040
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Bill Thatcher / Fiddle Music
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of fiddle music by Ralph Aldous,
Arley Leonard, and Avery St. Louis.
Recorded in the Canton, New York, area by Bill Thatcher, 1975. The collection
includes
three-eighths linear inch of correspondence, an essay, and transcriptions.
Duration: 5 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17996-17998
Title: The "Back-Tracking with Stetson Kennedy, 'Po-Folkist'" Oral
History Collection
Description: Interview by Peggy Bulger of Stetson Kennedy titled "Back-tracking
with Stetson Kennedy,
'Po-folkist,'" made at the 14th Annual International Folk Alliance
Conference, 2002.
Inclusive Years: 2002
AFC Number: AFC 2002/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Art Thieme Documentary Recordings Collection
Description: Sound recordings and manuscript materials made by Art
Thieme of blues singers and
hobos in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio in 1960-1962, and 2000.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1962, 2000
AFC Number: AFC 2001/030
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Art Thieme / John F. Kennedy Song Project
Description: Copies of 42 commercially-recorded songs relating to
John F. Kennedy and John Glenn,
and 72 songs relating to the presidency and assassination of JFK, plus
one song regarding
the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Sources of the songs include commercial
recordings as well as live performances of both published and unpublished material.
Letters as well as a manuscript containing text transcriptions as well as some
commentary
Inclusive Years: 1960-1993
AFC Number: AFC 1980/014
AFS Number: AFS 19979
Title: Darius L. Thieme Collection
Description: Songs and instrumental music, recorded in Western Nigeria
by Darius L. Thieme, 1964-66.
Inclusive Years: 1964-1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13001-13030
Title: Darlene Thomas / Native American Cultural, Educational, Legal Issues
and Resources
Description: Two manuscript boxes containing files on various subjects
such as Amerindian law, Indian
higher education institutions, the Menominee tribe, information from various
Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) agencies, etc.
AFC Number: AFC 2003/008
AFS Number: N/A
Title: The Frank and Ann Thomas "Ballad of Stetson Kennedy" Collection
Description: One videocassette of debut of "One Man Against the
Klan: Ballad of Stetson Kennedy" at
"
Tribute to Stetson Kennedy," Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne,
Florida, March 5,
1993. Dr. Gordon Patterson, convener. Composed and sung by Frank Thomas.
Keywords:
Ku Klux Klan
Inclusive Years: 1993
AFC Number: AFC 2000/021
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jean Thomas American Folksong Festival Collection
Description: Twenty-two 12-inch discs of songs and instrumentals primarily
of Kentucky performers,
recorded at the American Folk Song Festival in Ashland, Kentucky, by Jean
Thomas, June
1934. Includes performances by Walter Caldwell, Curtis Dartey, Volney Fraley,
Elizabeth
Fitzpatrick James, Ed Morrison, and Jilson Setters.
Inclusive Years: 1934
AFC Number: AFC 1935/003
AFS Number: AFS 287-308
Title: Robert S. Thomson / Development of Broadside Ballad Trade and Its
Influence up the
Transmission of English Folksongs
Description: Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1974. Microfilm
Number: 97/1127
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen Recordings
Description: Record made by Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen on June 12,
1943, in the Recording
Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., recorded by B. A. Botkin
and Arthur
Semmig. List.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7038
Title: Jeff Todd Titon "Powerhouse for God" Collection
Description: White gospel music, sermons, hymn sings, radio broadcasts
and interviews relating to
Fellowship Independent Baptist Church of Stanley, Virginia, and its pastor,
John Sherfey.
Includes logs and correspondence.
Inclusive Years: 1983-1986
AFC Number: AFC 1995/010
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jeff Todd Titon / Stanley, Virginia, Collection, Part 2
Description: Church services, prayer meetings, and hymn sings (with
piano and guitar accompaniment)
recorded at the Fellowship Independent Baptist Church in Stanley, Virginia;
interviews with
the pastor, John Sherfey, and members of the congregation, recorded in
Stanley and Lucas
Hollow, Virginia; Rev. Belvin Hurt's "Sunlight of Love" broadcasts
and Rev. John Sherfey's
"
Bible Way Gospel Time" broadcasts, recorded at WRAA Studios, Luray,
Virginia.
Recorded by Jeff Todd Titon with Ken George, July 1976-December 1979.
Inclusive Years: 1976-1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23212-23251
Title: Jeff Todd Titon / New Bethel Baptist Church Hymn Collection
Description: Hymns and spirituals (including lining-out) by the congregation
of the New Bethel Baptist
Church. Recorded by Jeff Todd Titon in Detroit, Michigan, 1977-1978.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22500
Title: Jeff Todd Titon Duplication Project
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of Anglo-American Baptist religious
services recorded in Bucksport,
Maine, and African-American Baptist services recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota;
songs
sung with piano by blues musician Lazy Boy Lucas recorded in Minneapolis,
Minnesota;
and an interview with blues musician Son House of Rochester, New York,
recorded in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Recorded by Jeff Todd Titon, 1968-75.
Inclusive Years: 1968-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19154-19156
Title: Jeff Todd Titon and Ken George / Interviews Concerning
Religious Experiences, Stanley, Virginia
Description: Eight 7-inch tapes of interviews concerning
white religious experiences with Rev. John Sherfey and members of the Fellowship
Independent Baptist Church of Stanley, Virginia. Recorded in Stanley, Phleburg,
Luray, Etlan, and Pine Grove, Virginia, by Jeff Titon and Ken George, 1977.
The collection includes transcripts of the interviews. Keywords: personal
narratives, jokes, conversation, hymns, church services (structure and
practices), doctrine and individual experiences, witnessing, conversion
narratives, call-to-preach narratives, shouting, testimony, sermons, prayers,
teaching.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19260-19267
Title: "To Hear a Hand" Collection
Description: One videocassette of a program of deaf folklore held
at the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of
Congress on March 20, 1986 with Simon J. Carmel, Rosalee Connor, and Michael
White.
Filmed by Clark A. Connor, husband of participant Rosalee Connor.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/008
AFS Number:
Title: "To Sing for Someone" / Omaha Powwow Television Program
Collection
Description: 3/4-inch videocassette of a program about Omaha tribal
powwows produced by the
University Television Department of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Copyright 1983.
Inclusive Years: 1983
AFC Number: AFC 1983/018
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Charles Todd and Robert Sonkin New York State Recordings
Description: Seven 12-inch discs of fiddle tunes and songs recorded
in New Jersey and New York by
Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd, June 13-26, 1941. The collection includes
eight pages of
fieldnotes and logs.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/013
AFS Number: AFS 5028-5034
Title: Barre Toelken Photographs Collection
Description: Nine black-and-white photographs of string games taken
by Barre Toelken in Eugene,
Oregon, 1977. The girl who is executing the string figures is Patsy Bedonie
(Navajo), aged
14 when the photos were taken. The other pair of hands belong to Barre's
daughter Chiyo
Toelken, also aged about 14. String designs are: cats cradles, big star
(from Navajo
tradition), a constellation, and a representation of a moving snake.
AFC Number: AFC 1988/011
AFS Number: N/A
Title: "Together in Time" / New England Contra Music and Dance
Collection
Description: Videocassette titled _Together in Time: A Story of New
England Contra Music and Dance_,
produced by Steve Alves in 2000 and distributed by Great Meadow Music (GMM
2011).
Inclusive Years: 2000
Duration: 27 min.
AFC Number: AFC 2000/023
AFS Number: N/A
Title: To-Ho-Ne Camp Songs
Description: Donor Hockett indicates that To-Ho-Ne was a private boys'
camp on Lake Buel, Great
Barrington, Massachusetts, and had been run by her father, Peter Menaker.
Presumably, the
tape was recorded prior to 1972. Forty songs are listed as being contained
on the
90-minute tapes.
AFC Number: AFC 1995/018
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Scott and Doris Tonemah / Songs of the Caddo Collection
Description: Caddo songs performed by nine singers in a recording
session at the University of
Oklahoma, June 10, 1962, Norman, Oklahoma.
Inclusive Years: 1962
AFC Number: AFC 1988/024
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jozef J. Topoloski / Frank Wojnarowski Collection
Description: Interview of Frank Wojnarowski by Frank Topolski on May
28, 1989, five years before
Wojnarowski's death. Wojnarowski, a Polish bandleader was 79 at the time
of the interview.
Includes discussion of eastern and western style polkas.
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1996/029
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Traditional Music of Russian Poozer'ye: Material from the Expeditons
of 1971-1992
Description: Published book and cassettes of Russian folksongs from
the Poozer'ye region in Russia.
Book is entirely in Russian language. Cassettes include music transcribed
in book.
Inclusive Years: 1971-1992
AFC Number: AFC 1999/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Frank Traficante / Kentucky Folk Music and Lore
Description: Kentucky folk music and lore, recorded by Frank Traficante
and his class at University of
Kentucky, 1972. Includes Pleaz Mobley, Buell Kazee, Edna Ritchie, Lily
May Pennington,
and a church service.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1973/009
AFS Number: AFS 15571-15576
Title: Transcripts of testimony and other court documents relating to the
murder of Jay Legg
Description: One hundred seventy-eight photocopied pages of newspaper
accounts, transcripts of
testimony, and other courtroom documents pertaining to the trial of Sarah
Ann Legg for the
murder of her husband, Jay Legg, in Clay County, West Virginia, February
10, 1904.
Collected by Carl Fleischhauer and Alan Jabbour, ca. 1973, in connection
with their
fieldwork and subsequent preparation for publication of recordings numbered
AFS L65-66,
The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions, which
includes the
song, "Jay Legg."
Inclusive Years: early 1900s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/051
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Tucson Meet Yourself Festival, 1976
Description: Tucson, Meet Yourself Festival, October 8-10, 1976, at
Tucson, Arizona. James Griffith,
director. Performers include Irish, Cajun, black, Anglo, Mexican, and American
Indian
(Apache, Papago, Yaqui) musicians. Recorded by Richard K. Spottswood.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19727-19746
Title: Tu'er Ye Image and Manuscript Collection, 2003-2004
Description: 52 color photographs (JPEG files on one CD-R)
Academic paper on the tradition (7 pp.) by Meng Yu, donor.
Tu'er ye is a clay statue that was given to children during the mid-autumn
festival in Beijing
and Tianjin, China until approximately the 1950s. Tu'er ye is also the
name of a rabbit god
who accompanies a moon goddess during the festival, as well as the name
for the child's
toy, which depicts a rabbit in an outfit traditionally worn by a Chinese
general, with a
solemn expression on its face. This collection includes an academic paper
written by
Meng Yu about the tradition; biographical information about the Beijing
artist Shuang
Qi-xiang who makes Tu'er ye and other clay toys; and 52 color photographs
of Shuang
Qi-xiang's art work and of the artist, who has revived the art of making
of these traditional
clay statues.
Notes: Photographs by Ian Provan, taken in Beijing, July 2003 and February
2004.
Keyword: Tuer ye
Inclusive Years: 2003-2004
AFC Number: AFC 2004/009
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John Turner / Howard Finster One Man Show, San Francisco
Description: Home video of Howard Finster's one-man show, Braunstein
Gallery, San Francisco, plus his
visit to John Turner's home in Berkeley, April 1981.
Inclusive Years: 1981
AFC Number: AFC 1989/025
AFS Number:
Title: Mort D. Turner / U.S. Geological Survey Pick and Hammer Club Collection
Description: The collection consists of 14 booklets of facetia produced
from 1947 to 1969 by The Pick
and Hammer Club, an informal group of U.S. Geological Survey employees.
The contents
are primarily satiric verse featuring puns and professional in-jokes.
Inclusive Years: 1947-1969
AFC Number: AFC 1996/024
AFS Number: N/A
Title: D. Twe / Mark Twain
Description: Tape of Mr. D. Twe reminiscences of Mark Twain. Mr. Twe
was a servant of Mark Twain.
Recorded in the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, 1951.
Partial transcript
made September 6, 2001.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10027
U
Title: Beverly Underwood / Bill Vernon--Mike Seeger Interview Collection
Description: The program was part of a retrospective series on Folkways
Records after the death of its
founder, Moses Asch. This 1-hour segment was broadcast over WVTF-FM, Roanoke,
Virginia, on September 9, 1987, when it was recorded by the donor. Its
interest lies in
Seeger's detailed recollections of the artists on some of his field recordings
for the ten LPs
he edited for Folkways. The artists named and heard are Gaither Carlton, Hillary
Dickens
(Hazel Dickens's father), the New Lost City Ramblers, Seeger himself, the Stanley
Brothers,
Uncle Bunt Stephens, Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, and Wade Ward. Also
heard is an
unnamed trio playing three Jew's harps.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1997/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin, Irish Folklore
Commission Wax
Cylinder Collection
Description: Wax cylinders recorded by various collectors for the
Irish Folklore Commission, now held in
the archives of the Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin.
The cylinders
document traditional singing, music, and recitations and readings. Much
of the material is
in the Irish language.
Inclusive Years: 1897-
AFC Number: AFC 2004/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: University of Maryland Folklore Archives Project
Description: Student collections from the University of Maryland,
under the supervision of George G.
Carey, 1967-1970.
Inclusive Years: 1967-1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17391-17403
Title: University of New Mexico / Santa Rosa Fiesta
Description: Santa Rosa Fiesta at Santa Rosa Catholic Church, Santa
Rosa, New Mexico, August 20,
1977.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19371-19372
Title: University of Wisconsin Project
Description: One hundred and twelve 12-inch discs of instrumentals,
songs, and stories recorded in
Wisconsin by Charles Hofmann, Phyllis Pinkerton, Aubrey Snyder, and Helene
Stratman-Thomas (Blotz), July 23-November 17, 1946, for the Library of
Congress and the
University of Wisconsin. The collection includes three-fourths linear inch
of
correspondence and descriptions.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/022
AFS Number: AFS 8362-8473
Title: University of Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project
Description: Thirty-five 12-inch discs of instrumentals and songs
recorded in Wisconsin by Robert F.
Draves and Helene Stratman-Thomas (Blotz) for the University of Wisconsin
and the Library
of Congress, August 19-September 5, 1940. The collection includes five-eighths
linear
inches of descriptions and lists. Includes Finnish American, Welsh American,
Swiss,
Bohemian
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 4159-4193
Title: Patricio Castillo Urquidi: Lecture/recital on Incan and Aztec music
Description: One 7-inch tape of a lecture/recital on Aztec and Inca
music. Selections arranged, adapted,
and performed on the violin by Patricio Castillo Urquidi. Recorded in Mexico
City, 1959.
Duration: < 1 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11831
Title: Utah Arts Council Folk Arts Program / Listening In: Utah Storytelling
Description: One cassette entitled "Listening In: Utah Storytelling," featuring
recordings made at various
locations in Utah primarily by David Stanley, during or before 1991, for
the Utah Arts Council
Folk Arts Program. The collection includes a booklet, a page of correspondence,
and a
receipt. Includes field recordings of thirteen stories by Utah residents in
various settings,
such as homes, campsites, classrooms, and cafes; representing storytelling
traditions of
various occupational, family, immigrant, and Shoshone groups. First in a series
of booklets
and cassettes on Utah traditions produced by the Utah Arts Council Folk Arts
Program.
David H. Stanley, author/compiler. Additional copies of this package available
from Utah
Arts Council.
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: AFC 1991/020
AFS Number: N/A
V
Title: Daisy Valentine Recordings
Description: Songs, with guitar and piano by Mrs. Daisy Valentine
(Hammerman), originally of Harlan,
Kentucky. Recorded by the singer, February 1965.
Inclusive Years: 1965
Duration: 20 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12343
Title: Margaret Valiant / U.S. Southwest and California Recordings
Description: Recordings made in Southern California and the Southwest
by Margaret Valiant for the Farm
Security Administration (FSA) in 1939. Presented by the FSA to the Archive
of American
Folk-Song as a permanent deposit.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3558-3570
Title: Arnold van Gennep Manuscript Collection
Description: Article offprints and hand notated typescripts of van
Gennep's writings.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1900-1957
AFC Number: AFC 1991/005
AFS Number:
Title: Capt. F.M. Van Natter / American Legion Recordings
Description: Nine 12-inch discs of songs and spoken word from the
radio broadcast "The American
Legion Post" hosted by Capt. F. M. Van Natter. This program features
George Field's
Spiritual Singers; a Scottish bagpiper playing tunes to the poetry of Robert
Burns; and
French folk songs from Vincennes, Indiana, including "Au bois," "Au
clair de la lune,"
"
Varsouvienne," "Grand'mère se plaint," and "Alouette." Recorded
at radio station WAOV,
Vincennes, Indiana, 1943-1944. The collection contains three pages of correspondence
and a partial transcript. [AFS 8213-8216A: George Field's Spiritual Singers,
Dec. 5, 1943;
AFS 8216B-8217: bagpiper Walter E. Shaw on Robert Burns, Jan. 23, 1944.]
Duration: 50 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1948/014
AFS Number: AFS 8213-8221
Title: John T. Vance Recordings
Description: Five songs sung by John T. Vance, former Chief, Law Division,
Library of Congress.
Recorded at his home, November 21, 1937.
Inclusive Years: 1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13112
Title: Judith Vander / Songprints Collection
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of eighty-one songs, seventy-nine of
which are sung by five Shoshone
Indian women of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Of these, seventy-four
were
recorded in Cody and Fort Washakie, Wyoming, by Judith Vander, 1977-83,
as part of
fieldwork for her book and cassette publication, _Songprints: The Musical
Experience of
Five Shoshone Women_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988; ML3557.V36
1988).
Also included are two Shoshone songs previously recorded by Edward Curtis
and Willard
Rhodes. The collection includes the cassette that accompanies the book,
and one linear
inch of correspondence and documentation. Contains a variety of songs:
flag songs, wolf
dance, war songs, handgame songs, round dance songs, crow hop song, etc.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1983
Duration: 2 hrs. 45 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1995/016
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Judith Vander / Shoshone Ghost Dance Collection
Description: Ghost Dance songs, as sung by Emily Hill and Dorothy
Tappay, Shoshone Indians of the
Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The songs on these cassettes are specifically
those
included in her book _Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great
Basin
Context_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997). The songs were initially
recorded by
the informants themselves, mostly during the 1970's, and then re-recorded
by Vander during
her fieldwork.
Inclusive Years: 1980-1981
AFC Number: AFC 1998/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Gerald Vaughn / Frank Luther Trio with Ray Whitley
Description: Western swing song "The Little Grey Church in the
Valley" by the Frank Luther Trio with Ray
Whitley. Dubbed from a Perfect Disc, number 5-12-63 (commercial recording).
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17477
Title: Vermont Public Radio / Helen Hartness Flanders Broadcast Collection
Description: Vermont Public Radio broadcast entitled "Down't
Jones's Paring Bee" concerning the
collecting activities of Helen Hartness Flanders. Participants include
Helen Hartness
Flanders, Elizabeth Ballard, Horace P. Beck and Dale Cockrell of Middlebury
College,
Margaret MacArthur, and several of Mrs. Flanders' informants. Recorded
in Vermont,
September 23, 1980.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22186
Title: Voice of America / "The Sound of American Folk Music" Broadcast
Description: "The sound of American Folk Music," Voice of
America radio program (Studio One series)
featuring Joseph C. Hickerson, recorded March 4, 1975, for broadcast ca.
July 4, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17482
Title: Erich von Hornbostel Collection
Description: Two 10-inch tapes copied from 120 cylinders of ethnic
and tribal music recorded by various
collectors in various parts of the world and comprising a 1919 version of the
Erich M. Von
Hornbostel Demonstration Collection of the Berlin Phonogramm- Archiv.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10053-10054
W
Title: J.M. Waddell / Cowboy Songs
Description: 1 record of cowboy songs made by J. M. Waddell in the
Recording laboratory of the Library
of Congress, May 26, 1947. Informant is from Texas.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8965
Title: Ralph C. Waddey Afro-Brazilian Folk Music
Description: Afro-Bahian folk music recorded by Ralph C. Waddey in
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1955.
Inclusive Years: 1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14573
Title: Anthony F.C. Wallace / Tuscarora wire recordings
Description: Sixteen wires of Tuscarora kinship terms, personal narratives,
texts, translations, and
vocabularies recorded by Anthony F.C. Wallace, 1948-49. Donated by the
American
Philosophical Society. Onondaga and Seneca song texts included.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1949
Duration: 14 hours 30 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1970/006
AFS Number: AFS 14329-14344
Title: Mike Wallis / Recordings of Sam McCracken
Description: Alabama fiddle tunes recorded 1970 by Mike Wallis.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14166
Title: Marie-Louise Walter / The Folktale in George Peele's The Old Wive's
Tale
Description: Thesis: Indiana University
Inclusive Years: 1957
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Ivan Walton / Michigan Sailor Songs
Description: Lake sailor ballads, recorded in Michigan by Ivan Walton,
September 1940.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: AFC 1941/025
AFS Number: AFS 4474-4488
Title: Ivan Walton Songs from Michigan
Description: Ten 12-inch discs of thirty-five songs recorded in Michigan
and Ohio by Ivan Walton,
September 1938. The collection includes twenty-eight pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: AFC 1939/014
AFS Number: AFS 3396-3405
Title: Ward Family Manuscript Collection
Description: Photopied indexes and songbooks of the Ward family of
Forest Hill, Maryland. Originals still
with the family. 292 songs plus 25 poems. 1707 1/2 verses plus 301 unstanzed
lines.
Keywords; folk song.
AFC Number: AFC 1964/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Anne and Frank Warner Collection
Description: One hundred five 12-inch discs, seventeen 7-inch tapes,
and two 5-inch tapes of
instrumentals, interviews, readings, songs, and stories recorded in the
Bahamas,
Massachusetts, the Middle West, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio,
Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, by Anne and Frank M. Warner,
1940-66.
The collection includes three-sixteenths linear inch of concordances, correspondence,
fieldnotes, and lists. Also includes Mohawk and recordings of Carl Sandburg.
Sound recordings and photographs were made by Anne and Frank Warner documenting
folk
music during field trips to Illinois (1941), Massachusetts (1941), New Hampshire
(1940-41),
New York (1939-41, 1946, 1949-52, 1961, 1969), North Carolina (1938-41, 1944,
1951,
1959), Missouri (1941), Vermont (1940), Virginia (1940), and to some unspecified
locations
in the Midwest. The songs were collected from descendents of English and Scots-Irish
immigrants and from African Americans, some of West Indian descent. Includes
songs
and stories of Frank Proffitt, Sr. and the extended Hicks family of Beech Mountain,
N.C.
Mohawk songs, chants, war cries, courting, and hunting songs were recorded
from Louis
Solomon at Hogansburg, St. Regis, New York in 1940-41. Also included are a
few
interviews with performers, storytelling sessions, and recordings of lectures
and readings
performed by Carl Sandburg in 1950, 1951, and 1953.
Inclusive Years: 1940-1966
AFC Number: AFC 1950/002
AFS Number: AFS 15261-15384
Finding Aid: http://memory.loc.gov/service/afc/eadxmlafc/eadpdfafc/2005/af005001.pdf
Title: Frank M. Warner Disc
Description: 1 record of American folk songs made by Frank Warner
in the Recording Laboratory of the
Library of Congress. Singer from New York.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8935
Title: Jeff and Gerret Warner / Warner Collection CD Project
Description: In honor of their parents' work, Jeff and Gerret Warner
selected recordings from the Frank
and Anne Warner collections for release on CDs on the Appleseed label.
Jeff Warner has
donated copies of the CDs created by AIRSHOW Mastering from which the published
CDs
are being created, together with copies of the published CDs as they become
available.
See also: Frank and Anne Warner Collection.
AFC Number: AFC 1999/019
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Walter Warren and Morrison Baker / "The Flood on Blockhouse
Run"
Description: "The Flood on Blockhouse Run," sung by Morrison
Baker, recorded at New Brighton,
Pennsylvania, by Charles Baker, August 1967.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14027
Title: Washington Meeting on Folk Art
Description: Visual and written records of a 2-day public meeting
on folk art; presentations by scholars,
collectors, curators, and others. See related publication _Folk Art and
Art Worlds_.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1987/004
AFS Number: AFS 26739-26749
Title: Washington Conference on American Folk Custom Collection
Description: Administrative materials related to the conference, hosted
by the American Folklife Center,
October 3-5, 1980. Keynote address given by Wayland D. Hand [assigned AFS
22,161], with
an introduction by Alan Jabbour. Recorded by the American Folklife Center,
October 4,
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: AFC 1980/009
AFS Number: AFS 22161
Title: Washington Conference on Folklife and Automated Archives
Description: Administrative materials and programs related to the
Washington Conference on Folklife
and Automated Archives held April 26-28, 1984.
Inclusive Years: 1984
AFC Number: AFC 1984/026
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Washington State University / Nez Perce Cylinder Collection
Description: Nez Perce music 1909-1912. Contents include war dances,
social dances, women's
dances, smoke songs, geese dance, etc.
Inclusive Years: 1909-1912
AFC Number: AFC 1990/030
AFS Number:
Title: Richard Alan Waterman / African Patterns in Trinidad Negro Music
Description: Dissertation: Northwestern University
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Richard Waterman / Australian Recordings
Description: Music of the aborigines from Arnhem Land, Australia,
recorded by Richard A. Waterman,
1952-1953. Dubbed from original tapes housed at Indiana University.
Inclusive Years: 1952-1953
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15230-15260
Title: Richard A. Waterman / Folk Songs of Puerto Rico
Description: Twenty-eight 12-inch discs and seven 16-inch discs of
songs recorded in Puerto Rico by
Richard A. Waterman of Northwestern University in 1946 in cooperation with
the Puerto
Rican Office of Information. Portions of this collection have been published
by the Library of
Congress on recording number AFS L18, Folk Music of Puerto Rico.
Duration: 6 hrs. 45 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/030
AFS Number: AFS 8726-8760
Title: Howard Watt "Songs from My Past" Collection
Description: Two cassettes of songs sung with guitar by Howard Watt,
a native of Johnson County,
Wyoming. Recorded in Buffalo, Wyoming, in or before 1974, and donated to
the Archive by
the Johnson County Library in 1986. The collection includes thirty-seven
pages of notes.
Watt sings "old songs" (many of them cowboy songs) with guitar
accompaniment; originally
recorded for his family on March 15, 1983.
Duration: 1 hr. 36 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/016
AFS Number: AFS 24364-24365
Title: Ted Watts Sidewalk Streetcar Collection
Description: Ted Watts of Silver Spring, Maryland donated this folk
toy known as a "sidewalk streetcar."
Consisting of a shoe box, colored cellophane windows, a candle, and a string
for pulling it
along the sidewalk, these toys were pulled along the sidewalks in early
September by the
children in Terre Haute, Indiana. The sidewalk streetcar in our collection
is a replica that
Mr. Watts made in 1996.
Inclusive Years: 1930's replica
AFC Number: AFC 2004/020
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Rainer Wehse / Schwank-Songs of the British Broadsides: A Classification
and
Description: Miscellaneous publication from Indiana University, 1969.
Microfilm Number: 97/1128
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Joe Weidlich / Banjo & Violin Instructors Collection
Description: Photocopies of 2 rare 19th century books: The Ethiopian
Violin Instructor (1848), and
Howe's New American Banjo School (1859). Also, 2 unpublished manuscripts
by Weidlich
on the origins and nature of early banjo styles.
AFC Number: AFC 1996/063
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Harry Welliver / University of Michigan Recording Project
Description: Thirty 12-inch discs of songs recorded at various locations
in Michigan by Harry B. Welliver,
Jr., and others, November 1948-February 1949, for the University of Michigan.
The
collection includes one linear inch of notes.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9689-9718
Title: Roger Welsch / Omaha Handgame
Description: An Omaha handgame, recorded at Lincoln, Nebraska, by
Professor Roger L. Welsch,
Nebraska Wesleyan University, April 27, 1969. Keyword: American Indian
Inclusive Years: 1969
Duration: 4 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13574-13576
Title: Theresa Deer Wescott Interview / Menominee Indian Songs, Stories,
and Memories
Description: The interview took place on August 31, 1980, the second
day of Wescott's visit. Tape
#1--primarily comments regarding photos that Mrs. Wescott was showing people
in the
room; #2--listening to and commenting on some of the Frances Densmore Menominee
cylinders; #4--story in Menominee language, plus English translation, and
related materials;
#5--several more Densmore songs re-heard, plus discussion about dissemination,
and
replaying of tape #4.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: AFC 1980/013
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Hedy West Songbook
Description: Photocopy of the Germany publication _Hedy West Songbook_,
by Rolf Gekeler.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: AFC 1975/004
AFS Number: N/A
Title: West Virginia Folk Music Project Part II
Description: Performers include Bobby Tayler (and "Tayler Made" group),
Gerry Vance Group, both
recorded at Huntersville Bluegrass Festival, Frank George (fiddle), and
Professor Patrick
Gainer, interview. Collected by Charles Bean and Derrick Jones, July 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19958-19960
Title: West Virginia music / Lilly Brothers, Nimrod Workman, Blackie Cool
Description: Eleven 7-inch tapes of instrumentals, interviews, and
songs performed with autoharp,
banjo, fiddle, guitar, hammered dulcimer, and mandolin. Recorded in Elkins
and
Monterville, West Virginia, by Mike Rivers, July 26-30, 1978. The collection
includes eleven
pages of lists and photocopies of tape boxes. Includes the Lilly Brothers,
Nimrod Workman,
William "Blackie" Cool, Sam Rizzetta, Mike Rivers, and Lynn Manring
singing and playing
guitar, fiddle, banjo, dulcimer, and mandolin. Workman's recordings include
union songs,
songs about mining, black lung, as well as the political "Watergate Boogie."
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 5.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19548-19558
Title: Western Folklife Center Materials
Description: Publications and programs from the Western Folklife Center,
Elko, Nevada. Includes
programs from all of the Cowboy Poetry Gatherings.
Inclusive Years: 1985-present
AFC Number: AFC 2003/006
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Western Folklife Center / "Why the Cowboy Sings" Collection
Description: 1 DVD of "Why the Cowboy Sings: The Music Video" produced
by Hal Cannon of the
Western Folklife Center.
Inclusive Years: 2003
Duration: 16-min
AFC Number: AFC 2003/013
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Wheelright Cylinders
Description: Copies of 131 cylinders in National Archives labeled "Mary
C. Wheelwright." Evidently
includes recordings of Navajo ceremony by Mary C. Wheelwright and of Pueblo
music by
Anna Barrington, 1920s.
Inclusive Years: 1920s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14773-14778
Title: Martha White / Flatt & Scruggs Show Collection
Description: Two half-hour episodes (show numbers 383 and 384) from
1968 of The Flatt & Scruggs
Show, sponsored by the Martha White Flour Company, featuring Lester Flatt
and Earl
Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. The shows were edited on April 10,
1968, and
broadcast from the Nashville, Tennessee, station, WMS-TV, Channel 4. Guests
on the two
shows include Earl's son Randy Scruggs, Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three,
June
Carter Cash, and Carl Perkins. These two episodes are the only known copies
of these
shows from 1968, which was when the series ended because of the partners'
breakup. The
night they were recorded, guest Johnny Cash brought the Carter Family with
him, including
his new wife June, who performed with him on both shows.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: AFC 1979/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: William Abner White Oral History Collection
Description: Oral history interview with William Abner ("Papa")
White, lifelong resident of Baker County,
Georgia, conducted by Wayne A. Foster at White's home in Baker County in
1960. White,
88, describes the agri-based economy, farming practices, church and school
life, and other
aspects of the community of Bethany from 1860-1960. Recorded for station WBBK
[see
tape label].
Inclusive Years: 1860-1960
AFC Number: AFC 1987/041
AFS Number:
Title: White House Concert / "An Evening of American Indian Art: Indian
Dances"
Description: "An Evening of American Indian Art: Indian Dances," March
29, 1965, program at the White
House in honor of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Upper
Volta and Mrs.
Yameogo.
Inclusive Years: 1965
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13053
Title: American Folk Blues Festival Photograph Collection, 1962-1965
Description: 68 copies of photographs (7 color and 61 black-and-white)
taken by Stephanie Wiesand,
German blues and jazz enthusiast, during the 1962-1965 American Folk Blues
Festivals.
Stephanie Wiesand photographed the musicians of the American Folk Blues
Festival
during television tapings that took place at Südwestfunk, a German
television station in
Baden-Baden, Germany.
The American Folk Blues Festival brought American blues musicians to Europe
for live
concerts and studio performances from 1962-1969, promoted by German blues
enthusiasts
Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau. This collection of photographs of blues musicians,
taken by
Stepanie Wiesand from 1962-1965, documented blues performances during television
tapings at Sèudwestfunk, a television station in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Inclusive Years: 1962-1965
AFC Number: AFC 2003/050
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Donald Knight Wilgus / A Catalogue of American Folk-Songs on Commercial
Records
Description: Thesis: Ohio State University
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Willie Wilkerson / Negro Folk Songs
Description: Record of Negro folk songs made by Willie Wilkerson,
from Oxford, North Carolina, in the
Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, June 9, 1947.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8968
Title: Reverand Robert Wilkins Recordings Collection
Description: Songs by Reverend Robert Wilkins (with guitar), of Memphis,
Tennessee. Recorded at the
Library of Congress in Studio A, by Joseph C. Hickerson and Richard K.
Spottswood on
February 17, 1964.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12032
Title: Ottawa language wire recordings
Description: Ottawa material, including hymns, tales, word list, interviews,
Nanabojo myths, legends,
interview on history of Ottawa, etc. Recorded by Jane Willets, 1947. Copies
of the notes
and translations were provided by Frank Ettawageshik (Jane Willets' son).
Inclusive Years: 1947-1948
AFC Number: AFC 1970/005
AFS Number: AFS 14316-14328
Title: Melda Ann Williams / Historical Background and Musical Analysis
of Thirty Selected Nez
Perce Songs
Description: Thesis: University of Idaho
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Sue Pearl Williams / Baptist Revival Services
Description: Black religious music and preaching. Live recordings
of Baptist revival services from
Greenville, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C. Recorded by Sue Pearl
Williams, 1977.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19158-19160
Title: Doxie Kent Williford / A Discography of Mississippi Negro Vocal
Blues, Gospel, and Folk
Music
Description: Thesis: University of Mississippi
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Elizabeth Wilson Recordings
Description: Three 16-inch discs of instrumentals and songs played
on plucked dulcimer and sung by
Elizabeth Wilson of New York City. Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the
Library of
Congress, June 3, 1946. The collection includes two pages of engineer's
notes and a
one-page list.
Duration: 40 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13113-13115
Title: Joe Wilson / Benny Thomasson Music and Interviews
Description: Benny Thomasson and Sons perform various fiddle tunes
with the accompaniment of two
guitars. Tape includes conversation about the tunes. Recorded at Library
of Congress on
November 16, 1978 by Joe Wilson, NCTA (National Council for Traditional
Arts).
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19376-19378
Title: Joe Wilson Interview for _Folklife Center News_ Collection
Description: One cassette of an interview with Joe Wilson of the National
Council for the Traditional
Arts (NCTA), conducted by Brett Topping. Information used in an article
in _Folklife Center
News_.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/042
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jesse Winch / 1986 MacMaster, MacQueen, & Pellerin Concert Collection
Description: Concert of traditional Cape Breton music performed by
Buddy MacMaster, fiddle; Maybelle
Chisolm MacQueen, piano; and John Pellerin, stepdance and fiddle; all from
Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia; performed in concert at Carmichael Auditorium, Smithsonian
Institution,
November 23, 1986, Washington, D.C. Five "sets" of (primarily)
dance tunes (reels,
strathspeys, etc.). One set performed by Pellerin (fiddle) and MacQueen
(piano). Pellerin
also step dances to two pieces during performance. Recorded by Jesse Winch.
See also
Greater Washington Ceili Club / 1986 MacMaster and MacQueen Concert Collection
(AFC
1986/025).
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/026
AFS Number: AFS 24359
Title: Betty Bush Winger Manuscript Collection
Description: Songs, religious plays and tracts, stories, folksongs,
correspondence with Duncan Emrich.
Keyword: West Virginia
Inclusive Years: 1920s-1940s
AFC Number: AFC 1946/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Joseph A. Winn Recordings
Description: Folksongs, recitations, and early 20th century popular
and army songs, sung with guitar by
Joseph A. Winn, Bethesda, Maryland, formerly of Massachusetts and Washington,
D.C.
Recorded by Joseph C. Hickerson in Accokeek, Maryland, October 15, 1966.
Inclusive Years: 1966
Duration: 1 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12597
Title: Wisconsin Public Radio / "The Wisconsin Patchwork" Collection
Description: Thirteen half-hour radio programs containing selections
from the University of Wisconsin /
Library of Congress field survey of Wisconsin folk music conducted between
1940 and
1946 by Helene Stratman-Thomas Blotz and others. Programs feature religious
and secular
vocal and instrumental music of various ethnic and occupational groups, with
commentary
by producer and host Judy Woodward. Funded by the Folk Arts Program of the
National
Endowment for the Arts and the Wisconsin Arts Board; produced and broadcast
in 1984 at
WHA Public Radio, Madison, by Vicki Nonn and Judy Woodward; and narrated by
Dan
Devany.
Inclusive Years: 1940-1946; 1984
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24214-24220
Title: Charles Wolfe / Uncle Dave Macon "Summertime on the Beeno Line"
Description: Uncle Dave Macon, voice and banjo; Smoky Mountain Glenn,
voice and guitar.
"
Summertime on the Beeno Line," parody of "In the Good Old Summertime." Copy
of
Bluebird recording Bb 7779, January 24, 1938.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19234
Title: Charles Wolfe / Tennessee Arts Commission Radio Shows
Description: Tennessee Folklore Radio Series, 12 five-minute shows
written by Charles Wolfe, funded
by Tennessee Arts Commission, produced by WMOT-FM of Middle Tennessee State
University. Topics include storytelling, jug bands, moonshining, ballads,
superstitions,
anvil shooting, Uncle Dave Macon, quilts, Grand Ole Opry, sacred harp.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19420-19421
Title: Chris Wood's Green Bay Packers Songs Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of 45 songs about the Green Bay Packers,
their fans (often called
Cheeseheads, originally a derogatory term often applied to Wisconsinites
by residents of
Illinois), rival teams, Superbowl XXXI (in New Orleans), etc. Woods has
labeled his
compilations as follows: 90-minutes Tape, Side A: "Packermania," Side
B: "Lambeau
Loonacy." 60-minute tape, Side A: "Packermania...Again!," Side
B: "Lambeau
Loonacy...Unquashed!"; ), long-time team rivals, Superbowl XXXI (in
New Orleans), etc.
Keywords: Wisconsin, football, sports
Inclusive Years: 1997-
AFC Number: AFC 1997/025
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Paul Woodford / Air Force -- Hash House Harrier Collection
Description: 501 item-texts, primarily of bawdy songs, but including
some jokes, limericks, poems, and
toasts, collected initially from U.S. Air Force fighter pilots, and, later,
from the Hash House
Harriers, an informal international group whose activities include running,
drinking beer, and
singing.
Inclusive Years: c.1974-1994
AFC Number: AFC 1995/023
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Woodland Sampler Collection
Description: One audiocassette entitled The Woodland Sampler: Songs,
Music, and Poetry From Camp
Woodland, Phoenicia, New York 1947-1963, compiled by Norman Studer, Eric
Levine, and
Joan Studer Levine in 1987. The collection includes nine pages of liner
notes including
historical information about the songs, lyrics, and the story of Camp Woodland.
Tunes were
recorded at summer camping events, such as Sunday meetings, evening plays,
music
sessions, and square dances; and annual folk festivals at this Catskill Mountains
camp.
Inclusive Years: 1947-1963
Duration: 38 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1987/023
AFS Number: N/A
Title: John Work Southern African American Songs Collection
Description: These discs are copies of originals made in various parts
of Tennessee, Alabama and
Georgia by John Work with the help at various times of Harold Schmidt and
John Ross.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 5147-5167
Title: Working in Paterson Project Collection
Description: Eighty-seven cassette and digital audio tapes, six thousand
one hundred ninety-two still
photographs (color and black-and-white), six hundred ninety audiotape and
photograph
catalogs, and three hundred fourteen pages of fieldnotes, in addition to
administrative
correspondence, maps, publications, and ephemera from the Working in Paterson
Folklife
Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The
four-month study of
occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994. Paterson
became
the largest silk manufacturing center in the United States as well as a
manufacturer of
many other products, from railroad locomotives to firearms. This collection
also includes
materials about the African American community, a distinctive food tradition
(the Hot Texas
Wiener), the ethnography of Watson Machine International, business life along
21st
Avenue in Paterson, and narratives told by retired workers. Collected by Tom
Carroll, Martha
Cooper, Susan Levitas, Timothy Lloyd, Robert McCarl, and David Taylor.
Inclusive Years: 1994-1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/028
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/WorkinginPaterson.pdf
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/pthome.html
Title: The World War II Rumor Project Collection
Description: Coordinated under the auspices of the Office of War Information
(OWI), Special Services
Administration, which was established to achieve a coordinated governmental
war-information program. The project created a collection of manuscripts,
including some
graphics. The program aimed to promote an intelligent understanding of
the status and
progress of the war effort, war policies, activities, and the aims of the
United States
government. This project has two distinct components. The first component
involved field
representatives of various federal agencies who sent OWI manuscripts, or
written reports,
which they collected from individuals or "correspondents." The
second component
involved materials that were rumors, jokes, and anecdotes about the war
from high school
and college students collected by teachers.
Inclusive Years: 1942-194?
AFC Number: AFC 1945/001
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/rumors.html
Title: Matthew Vander Woude / The Recorded Music of Muddy Waters, 1941-1956:
A Repertory
Analysis and Anthology of Song Texts
Description: Thesis: York University
Inclusive Years: 1941-1956; 1986
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Christopher S. Wren / Johnny Cash Manuscript Collection
Description: Manuscripts, notebooks, clippings, and song folios donated
by Christopher S. Wren.
Gathered for his book _Winners Got Scars Too: The Life and Legends of Johnny
Cash._
AFC Number: AFC 1971/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Jeffrey C. Wrolstad / Wrolstad, Anderson, Dalby, Johnson Collection
Description: Three audiocassettes of old-time and Norwegian American
music performed on fiddle,
guitar, and piano by Morgan Anderson, George Dalby, and Nora Johnson, with
announcements by Jeffrey H. Wrolstad. Recorded by Jeffrey H. Wrolstad at
sessions held
in 1966 and 1968 in Rockdale, Wisconsin, and copied onto cassettes by Jeffrey
C.
Wrolstad in 1985.
Inclusive Years: 1966-1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: 24121-24123
Title: Jeffrey C. Wrolstad / Wrolstad Family Collection
Description: Old-time and Norwegian-American music performed on fiddle
and piano by Ethelyn Aanrud,
Arnt Soli, Ella Wrolstad and Emil Wrolstad, with announcements by Ellen
Mears and
Jeffrey H. Wrolstad. Recorded by Jeffrey H. Wrolstad near Peru, Wisconsin,
August 31,
1958.
[Second copy of this recording was donated by Marwin Wrolstad in April
2005. He wrote
that the group was called the Peru Trio. Peru was a cross-road in the Town
of New Hope,
Inclusive Years: 1958
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24120
Title: WUNC / "Tis Sweet to be Remembered" radio program
Description: A radio program, entitled "'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered," documents
the history of radio
station WPAQ, Mount Airy, North Carolina, and the role it has played, and
still plays, in
furthering old-time, country, gospel, and bluegrass music. It contains
interviews with
manager Ralph Epperson, Paul Brown, Jack Burkette, Mike Seeger, Robert
Sykes, and Mac
Wiseman, as well as musical excerpts by Jim Eanes, Benton Flippen, The
Friendly Four,
Esker Hutchins, Tommy Jarrell, Ray Myers, Arville Scott, and Mac Wiseman.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1990
AFC Number: AFC 1996/047
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Wyoming Council on the Arts Radio Project Collection
Description: Twenty-seven 7-inch tapes of instrumentals, interviews,
and songs recorded at various
locations in Wyoming by Deborah Jane Lamberton, May-June 1984, for the
Wyoming
Council on the Arts Radio Project. The collection includes one-half linear
inch of
correspondence and documentaion, and a set of four cassettes and a brochure
comprising
the second edition of the edited program entitled "...You Know That
Wyoming Will Be Your
New Home."
AFC Number: AFC 1984/009
AFS Number: N/A
Y
Title: Yakima and Other American Indian Songs by Leroy B. Selam
Description: One 7-inch tape of six songs of the Yakima and other
American Indian tribes discussed
and sung with drum by Leroy B. Selam of Monmouth, Oregon. Recorded at the
Library of
Congress by Gerald E. Parsons, December 12, 1975. The fourth song has been
published
by the Library of Congress as "Death Chant (Honor Song)" on
recording number LBC 15,
_Religious Music: Solo & Performance_.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 32 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18052
Title: Brian Yamakoshi / Koto Concert
Description: Concert by Brian Yamakoshi, composer and koto master.
Sponsored by the Library of
Congress as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, May 7, 2001.
Inclusive Years: 2001
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 2001/027
AFS Number: N/A
Title: YAR International Russian Folk Concert Collection
Description: YAR International, Inc. donation of three videocassettes
and one compact disc containing
performances by Russian folk groups, Ptitsa Troyka, Irtysh, the Omsk State
Russian Folk
Chorus, and the Omsk State Russian Ensemble of Singing and Dancing.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1993-2000
AFC Number: AFC 2000/013
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Nora Yeh / Cantonese Opera Thesis Collection
Description: The collection consists of Nora Yeh's thesis originally
submitted to the University of
California in Los Angeles for partial satisfaction of the requirements
for the degree of
Master of the Arts in Music. The manuscript, "The Yueh Chu style of
Cantonese Opera With
an Analysis of 'The Legend of Lady White Snake'," details the yueh chu
opera style of the
Kuang Tung province of southern China and analyzes one of the most famous yueh
chu
operas.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1997/017
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Nora Yeh / Southern Sound: The Nanyin Performing Tradition of China
Description: Lecture by Nora Yeh titled "Southern Sound: The
Nanyin Performing Tradition of China."
Sponsored by the American Folklife Center as part of the series _Notes
from the Field._
February 5, 1997.
Inclusive Years: 1997
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 1997/029
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Evelyn Yellow Robe / Sioux Indian Songs and Stories
Description: Sioux Indian songs and stories recorded in July & August
1974 by Evelyn Yellow Robe at
the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations, South Dakota.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19038-19040
Title: Margaret Rose Yocom / Fieldwork in Family Folklore and Oral History:
A Study in
Methodology
Description: Dissertation: University of Massachusetts
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Marynell Young "Vintage Fiddling in Eastern Kentucky" Collection
Description: Bound volume describes the "Vintage Fiddling in
Eastern Kentucky" project conducted by
Marynell Young from 1984-1986 with support from the Appalachian Development
Center,
Morehead State University; and the Kentucky Folklife Foundation. Includes
tape logs from
oral history interviews conducted by Marynell Young with eastern Kentucky
fiddlers,
musicians, and family members including Alfred Bailey, Mary G. Bailey,
Virgil Alfrey, Clela
B. Alfrey, Chillson Leach, J.P. Fraley and Annadeene Fraley (with sound
cassette of
performance and interview), David Sizemore, Hiram Stamper, and Clyde T.
Davenport.
Includes seven b&w photographs (photocopies) of fiddlers by David Bartlett;
photocopies of
clippings, programs, and correspondence from the performers' personal scrapbooks;
and
original (mss.) performers' signed releases for the Kentucky Oral History Commission.
Posters advertise the collection and the 10th anniversary Appalachian Celebration,
June
22-28, 1986.
Inclusive Years: 1984-1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/007
AFS Number: N/A
Database: No
Title: Chang Yu-Cheng Chinese Opera Video Collection
Description: 757 videocassettes (VHS and BETA) of Chinese opera. Collected
by Chang Yu-Cheng. A
detailed inventory was created in Chinese by Dr. Stanley Chuang. The taped
performances
are also in Chinese. Inventory notes singer and performer in Chinese.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1975-2002
AFC Number: AFC 2005/003
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Henrietta Yurchenco / Irish Collection
Description: Twenty 5-inch tapes of music recorded in counties Clare,
Dublin, Galway, and Kerry,
Ireland, by Henrietta Yurchenco and her students from the City College
of New York,
1973-74. The collection includes fifteen pages of notes. Includes accordion,
bodhran,
concertina, fiddle, flute, tin whistle, and uilleann pipes, along with
songs in both English
and Gaelic. The performers include Seamus Ennis, Aine and Josephine Kane,
James and
John Kelly, and Micho Russell.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1974
AFC Number: AFC 1995/022
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Henrietta Yurchenco / Puerto Rico Collection
Description: Field recordings from Puerto Rico collected between 1967-1979.
Song and dance music
performed by the Ayala and Parrilla families of Loiza Aldea. Songs performed
by Luis
Marcano of Certenijas, processional music of the Fiesta de Santiago in
Loiza Aldea. Also
pentecostal church sermons in Loiza Aldea and sermons by self-proclaimed
prophet Mita in
Hato Rey. Interviews with Anna Marcana of Certengas and Castor Ayola (mask
maker) from
Loiza Aldea. Limited play-list on tape boxes
Inclusive Years: 1967-1979
AFC Number: AFC 1995/005
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Henrietta Yurchenco / John's Island Collection
Description: Field recordings made by Henrietta Yurchenco in John's
Island, South Carolina in 1970-71.
The recordings contain church services, spirituals, blues, and a round-table
discussion on
current problems by a local minister, other community members, and the City
College (New
York) students who accompanied her on the project. The textual material consists
of an
introduction to the collection; a description of the Hunter family, which provided
much of the
music and childrens' games; descriptions of the games, with lyrics to the accompanying
songs; and a transcript of the discussion.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1971
AFC Number: AFC 1996/066
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Henrietta Yurchenco / Mexico Recordings
Description: Fifteen 16-inch discs of music of the Tarahumara Indians,
recorded in the state of
Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Tzotzil and Tzeltal Indians, recorded in the
state of Chiapas by
Henrietta Yurchenco, 1944-45, for the Instituto Indigenista Interamericano,
the Secretaria
de Educacion Publica, and the Library of Congress.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/048
AFS Number: AFS 8912-8926
Title: Henrietta Yurchenco / Mexican Music
Description: Thirty-seven 12-inch discs of Indian music recorded by
Henrietta Yurchenco in Mexico,
1946, for the Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, the Secretaria de Educacion
Publica,
and the Library of Congress.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/012
AFS Number: AFS 8166-8202
Title: Henrietta Yurchenco / Mexico and Guatemala Recordings
Description: Sixty 12-inch discs of Indian music recorded by Henrietta
Yurchenco in Mexico and
Guatemala, 1944-45, for the Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, the Secretaria
de
Educacion Publica, and the Library of Congress. AFS 8106-8139 or 8140 is
Guatemala
material.
Inclusive Years: 1944-1945
AFC Number: AFC 1948/011
AFS Number: AFS 8106-8165
Title: Henrietta Yurchenco / Colombia and Ecuador Collection
Description: 15 recordings made in Colombia (Neiva, La Guajira, Santa
Marta, Cartagena de Indias, San
Agustin, etc.) and in Arenca, Ecuador in 1975-76. Included are "Friday,
Musical Night
Concursos," "La fiesta del Bambuco," chants of the Guajiro,
Indian chants from La Boca, a
group of boys from Camarones, children singing, an interview "with
Soto," etc.
Inclusive Years: 1975-1976
Duration: ca. 11 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1997/020
AFS Number: N/A
Z
Title: Steve Zeitlin / WPA Radio Program Collection
Description: One audiocassette of commentary on the Works Progress
Administration (WPA) spoken by
Steve Zeitlin of City Lore, New York City. Recorded from the National Public
Radio program
"
Crossroads," March 17, 1995. The collection includes 2 articles,
correspondence, and a
data sheet.
Inclusive Years: 1995
Duration: 4 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1996/001
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Sergei Zhirkevich Photograph Collection
Description: 28 original black-and-white photographic prints, 1 audiocassette
(missing), and 46 pages of
field notes produced during the ethnographic study conducted by Russian professor
and
documentary photographer, Sergei Zhirkevich. Mr. Zhirkevich spent over a decade
interviewing, recording music, and photographing people in the Pskov Region
of Russia,
the former Baltic states, Kazakhstan, and the North Caucasus Mountains. The
resulting
book, "Ot Zamogil'ia do Blagodati," ("From Beyond the Grave
to Blessed Grace") was
published in 1999. The photographs reflect a contemporary case study of life
in selected
rural areas and the traditional beliefs that persist through political transitions
in the region.
All items are in Russian.
Summary: Collection consists of 28 black-and-white photographic prints
and 46 pages of
diary excerpts or field notes by Sergei Zhirkevich, who documented music,
dance, religious
traditions (processions, Shrovetide customs) and rural life in the Pskov
and Leningrad
regions of Russia, the North Caucasus mountain area, Kazakhstan, and the
former Baltic
states between 1982 and 1998 for his book, Ot Zamogil§ëiìa
do Blagodati [From Beyond the
Grave to Blessed Grace] (Sankt-Peterburg: Ikar, 1999), included in the collection.
Inclusive Years: circa 1980-1999
AFC Number: AFC 2000/026
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Aaron Ziegelman Foundation Collection
Description: In 1994, Aaron Ziegelman created the Aaron Ziegelman
Foundation and initiated the
Luboml Exhibition Project to preserve the history and the memory of his
birthplace, Luboml,
a shtetl (market town) in Poland, whose Jewish community was destroyed
in World War II.
(Luboml, Libivne in Yiddish, is now within the national borders of Ukraine.)
The Foundation
collected photographs, letters, maps, posters, artifacts, and oral histories
from more than
100 families and archives around the world. The material was then used
in a traveling
exhibition, Remembering Luboml: Images of a Jewish Community, that focused
on the
every day lives of the Luboml Jews, rather than their deaths. The collection
housed at the
Archive of Folk Culture contains the original materials donated to the
Luboml Exhibition
Project and administrative materials from the exhibit - over 2000 photographs,
276 videos,
160 sound recordings, 20 artifacts, and 25 linear feet of manuscript material.
Inclusive Years: ca.1931-2003
AFC Number: AFC 2003/002
AFS Number: N/A
Title: Zuni Pueblo Storytelling Collection
Description: Nineteen individuals telling over 800 stories, including
7 or 8 narrators relating hour-long
telapna:we, a traditional form of Zuni folktale. Recorded in 1966 and 1967
in Zuni Pueblo,
New Mexico. Purpose of the project was to recover Native American oral
historical
traditions. Funded by the Doris Duke Foundation.
Inclusive Years: 1966-1967
AFC Number: AFC 1996/073
AFS Number: N/A
List of collections: A-D E-K L-Q R-Z
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