LCFAFA No. 21 August 1996 COLORADO COLLECTIONS IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE Compiled by Ashley S. Hutto Series Editor: Joseph C. Hickerson ---------------------------------------------------------------- This finding aid describes the Archive of Folk Culture's unpublished ethnographic collections that document the traditional music and other aspects of the folklife of Colorado. Throughout this finding aid you will encounter several abbreviations. AFS and AFC numbers refer to the sequential numbering of recordings and other formats cataloged and controlled by the Archive of Folk Culture. The LWO, RW, RX, and RY numbers are shelflist designations for cassettes and tapes. All indications of time duration are estimates. The compiler wishes to thank David A. Taylor for his assistance in compiling this finding aid. Information on listening to and obtaining copies of the recordings listed in this finding aid is contained in _A Guide to the Collections of Recorded Folk Music and Folklore in the Library of Congress_. This guide, as well as a catalog with ordering information for the Library's published recordings of folk music and folklore, are available upon request from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-4610; (202) 707-5510; FAX: (202) 707-2076; e-mail: folklife@loc.gov. Also available upon request is _Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide_. We would be most interested in learning of Colorado collections that might be suitable for addition to the Archive of Folk Culture. This finding aid and others in the LCFAFA series are also available from the American Folklife Center on the Internet via LC MARVEL Gopher Service URL= gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/research/reading.rooms/folklife/guides and the LC Web World Wide Web Server URL=http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife). ------------- AFS 3905-3940: Thirty-six 12-inch discs of Mexican songs recorded in Colorado and New Mexico by J. Leslie Kittle and Juan B. Rael, July 29ÄAugust 11, 1940. The collection includes fourteen pages of lists and notes. AFS 3918-3927: Ten discs containing forty-four Mexican songs recorded in Antonito, Colorado, August 4, 1940. (One hour and fifty minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 257) AFS 6357-6375; 6453-6454: Six 16-inch and fifteen 12-inch discs of interviews documenting the reactions of the "person on the street" to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United States Declaration of War. Recorded in Colorado, Indiana, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, D.C., by Bob Allen, Philip Cohen, Fletcher Collins, John Henry Faulk, Charles Harrell, Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Robert Sonkin, and Charles Todd, December 8-10, 1941, as part of the Library of Congress Radio Research Project, for use in the Office of Emergency Management Radio Section Program, "Dear Mr. President." AFS 6453A: One disc containing interviews with several individuals, recorded in Denver, Colorado, December 9, 1941. (Ten minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reel 45B) AFS 8861: One 16-inch disc of twelve songs sung by the Mischau children recorded in Denver, Colorado. Accessioned March 1948. (Fifteen minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 152A) AFS 9629-9658: Thirty 12-inch discs of fifty Mexican songs, thirty songs sung in English, and four instrumentals. Recorded at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, by Don Almera, Arthur L. Campa, and Roberto Peraza, 1948-50. (Four hours and fifteen minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reels 247-249A) AFS 12,139-12,196: Fifty-eight 12-inch discs of Native American 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. AFS 12,174-12,176A: Three discs containing twenty-four Southern Ute songs, recorded in Towaoc, Colorado, summer 1942. (Twenty minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 394B) AFS 12,180-12,181: Two discs containing seven Navajo songs, recorded in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, summer 1942. (Fifteen minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 395A) AFS 12,320: One 3-inch tape of two songs sung with guitar by Arminta Neal, recorded in Denver, Colorado. Accessioned June 1965. The collection includes one page of notes. (Ten minutes; LWO 4467) AFS 14,218-14,221: Four 10-inch tapes of narratives, radio programs, and songs recorded in California, Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, and Washington, D.C., by Benjamin A. Botkin and the Voice of America, 1949-58. The collection includes five pages of notes. AFS 14,218B1-5: One tape containing five poems written and spoken by Tom Ferril, recorded in Denver, Colorado, by Benjamin A. Botkin, July 19, 1950. (Thirty minutes; LWO 6080 reel 1B) AFS 14,218B6: One tape containing "This is America" from Coronet Magazine, read by Chris Richards, recorded in Denver, Colorado, by Benjamin A. Botkin, July 19, 1950. (One minute; LWO 6080 reel 1B) AFS 14,218B7: One tape containing an interview about Central City, Colorado, with Louis Carter, recorded in Denver, Colorado, by Benjamin A. Botkin, July 20, 1950. (Twenty-nine minutes; LWO 6080 reel 1B) AFS 14,221A8-11: One tape containing four stories spoken by Levette J. Davidson, recorded in Denver, Colorado, by Benjamin A. Botkin, July 25, 1950. (Fifteen minutes; LWO 6080 reel 4A) AFS 18,053-18,058: Six 10-inch tapes of primarily Yiddish songs recorded in Cincinnati; Denver; New York City; Pittsburgh; West Orange, New Jersey; and elsewhere by Jack Manischewitz, 1957-61. The collection includes thirty-two pages of notes. AFS 18,053B5-6: One tape containing "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "Komodiuta" sung in Japanese by Terry Touff and En Kanokosugi. Recorded in Denver, Colorado, 1957. (Four minutes; LWO 8692 reel 1B) AFS 21,294-21,309; 21,317: Seventeen ten-inch tapes of Navajo Creation Chants, originally recorded on 693 cylinders in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, by George Herzog, September 1929. (Thirty- four hours; LWO 8830 reels 1-16, 24) AFS 22,440-22,456: Twelve 7-inch tapes, one 5-inch tape, and four cassettes from the Colorado Project, a field survey demonstrating folkloristic methodology and the particulars of research on local history, material culture, and ranching traditions in the Blue River Valley area of Colorado. Recorded in Breckenridge and Frisco, Colorado, by Elke Detmer, Howard W. Marshall, and Barbara Orbach, August 1980. The collection includes one linear inch of black-and-white negatives, one linear inch of black-and-white contact sheets, eighteen linear inches of color slides, ten linear inches of fieldnotes and logs, and fifty pages of inventories. (Ten hours and twenty-two minutes; RXA 4005-4017, RYA 2609-2612) AFS 23,019-23,155: Eighteen 7-inch tapes, two five-inch tapes, and one hundred seventeen cassettes of ethnic radio broadcasts recorded for the Ethnic Broadcasting in America Project of the American Folklife Center. Recorded mostly off the air by Elena Bradunas, Theodore Grame, Alan Jabbour, and others at various locations in the United States, 1977-78. Documentation includes Theodore Grame's _Ethnic Broadcasting in the United States_ (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, 1980; PN1991.8.E84G7) and nine linear inches of manuscript materials. AFS 23,019: One cassette containing a German program on KADX, Denver, Colorado, November 6, 1977. (Thirty minutes; RYA 2887) AFS 23,040: One cassette containing a Mexican program on KPNO, Denver, Colorado, November 7, 1977. (One hour; RYA 2905) AFS 23,046B: One cassette containing a Ute program on KSUT, Ignacio, Colorado, April 26Ä28, 1978. (Thirty minutes; RYA 2911B) AFS 24,204: One cassette of a thirteen-part radio series, entitled "Do Not Pass Me By," documenting musical and spoken traditions of Colorado. Recorded at various locations in Colorado by David A. Brose, 1983-84, for the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, and narrated for KCFR-FM, Denver, Colorado, by Harry M. Tuft. (One hour and thirty minutes; RYA 5271) AFS 24,205: One 7-inch tape of two cowboy poems spoken by Nyle Henderson. Recorded in Delta County, Colorado, by David A. Brose, 1982, for the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, and narrated for KCFR-FM, Denver, Colorado, by Harry M. Tuft. The collection includes eight pages of notes. (Ten minutes; RYA 6216) AFS 24,299-24,357: Fifty-nine 10-inch tapes of public speeches and other utterances containing dialect samples, recorded at various locations in North America by various collectors, and compiled by the Center for Applied Linguistics for a project entitled "A Survey and Collection of American English Dialect Recordings." The collection includes fourteen linear inches of documentation, including an introduction and preface, a list of contents, content summaries, and transcripts. AFS 24,307-24,308: Two tapes containing oral history interviews with residents of Mesa County, Colorado, including Basque, Dutch, and German immigrants ranging in age from fifty-four to eighty-nine years. Recorded in Mesa County, Colorado, 1972-83. (Four hours, RWB 3857-3858) AFS 26,270-26,387: 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, MayÄSeptember 1985, for the Rio Grande Arts Center. The collection includes two linear inches of notes. AFS 26,270-26,271; 26,276-26,305; 26,311-26,369; 26,375- 26,387: One hundred four tapes containing customs, interviews, proverbs, riddles, songs, and stories. Recorded in Alamosa, Antonito, Blanca, Capulin, Center, Chama, Garcia, Hooper, La Jara, Las Mesitas, Los Sauces, Manassa, Moffat, Mogote, Monte Vista, Ortiz, San Luis, and San Pablo, Colorado, May 25ÄAugust 23, 1985. (One hundred three hours; RXA 7656-7657, 7662-7691, 7697-7755, 7761-7773) AFC 1988/020: Thirty 7-inch tapes and two cassettes of Dutch Hop instrumentals and songs performed by nine Volga German bands. Recorded in Colorado by Michael A. Gowan, October 1986ÄMay 1987. The collection includes fifty pages of brochures, correspondence, lists, and summaries. (Fifteen hours) AFC 1995/015: Three cassettes and five videocassettes of demonstrations of square, round, and contradancing by the "Fun Finders." Recorded in Colorado Springs, Colorado, by Dean Edwards, 1993. The collection includes fifteen brochures, five color photographs, and twelve pages of correspondence and notes. (Nine hours) Addendum The following collections have not yet been fully processed. Italian-Americans in the West Project. The Italian-Americans in the West Project was a major field project of the American Folklife Center that documented Italian- American culture and traditions in California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Washington, 1989-91. Field data includes approximately 24,000 color and black-and-white photographs, 300 hours of tape- recorded interviews, 35 hours of video recordings, and 2,000 pages of field notes and tape and photo logs. Included in this collection are materials collected in Pueblo, Colorado, and surrounding communities. Some of the project's research findings are presented in David A. Taylor and John Alexander Williams, eds., _Old Ties, New Attachments: Italian-American Folklife in the West_ (Washington: Library of Congress, 1992; F596.3.I8T54 1992). Field School: Documenting Traditional Culture. During July 1994 and July 1995, the American Folklife Center, Colorado College, and the University of New Mexico's Center for Regional Studies jointly sponsored field schools for cultural documentation. During the 1994 field school, participants documented everyday life in the farming and ranching community of San Luis, Colorado. During the 1995 field school, seasonal farmers' markets of Colorado Springs, Colorado, were the focus of the field research. Documentation from both field schools include tape-recorded interviews, color and black-and- white photographs, field notes, and tape and photo logs.