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Finding Aids to Collections Organized by Topic in the Archive of Folk Culture
MICHIGAN MATERIAL
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE
Compiled by: Janet C. Moore Series Editor: Joseph
C. Hickerson
Publication Date: July 1979
For additional information about Archive
of Folk Culture collections, contact the Folklife
Reading Room. To request copies, see our webpages regarding audio
materials and photographic materials.
Please refer to the AFC and/or AFS numbers when requesting information.
All indications of time duration listed in this finding aid are estimates.
AFS/CYL 3965-3975, 4213: Twelve cylinders of Ojibway Indian music
and speech. Received from the Detroit Public Library, 1954. Tape copy:
LWO 8422 (10-inch DT at 7.5 ips)
AFS 2033, 2238-2486: One 10-inch and 249 12-inch (33 and 78 rpm)
mostly DF discs. Recorded in Michigan and Wisconsin by Alan Lomax between
August 10 and November 1, 1938. Primarily Michigan. Includes some ethnic
groups.
AFS 3396-3405: Ten 12-inch (78 rpm) mostly DF discs. Recorded in
Michigan and Ohio by Ivan Walton of the University of Michigan, 1938. Total
Michigan records: 8; total Michigan songs: 28.
AFS 4474-4488: Fifteen 16-inch (33rpm) mostly DF discs. Recorded
in Michigan by Ivan Walton, September 1940.
AFS 6397-6452: Four 16-inch, 45 12-inch, 2 10-inch, and 5 8-inch
discs of public opinion in various parts of the United States. Recorded
for the Office of Emergency Management Radio Section to make up the program
called "Dear Mr. President," by Bob Allen, Fletcher Collins,
John Henry Faulk, Lewis Jones, Vance Randolph, Robert Sonkin, and others,
in January-February 1942.
AFS 6415, 6426, and 6428 were recorded at radio station WJR,
Detroit.
AFS 9659-9688: Thirty 12-inch (78 rpm) DF (24) and SF (6) discs.
Mostly Finnish immigrant songs and tales. Recorded in Detroit by Susie
Hoogasian Villa, 1949. Wayne University Recording Project, in cooperation
with the Wayne University Folklore Archive, Thelma G. James, Archivist.
AFS 9689-9718: Thirty 12-inch (78 rpm) DF discs. Recorded in Michigan
by Harry B. Welliver, Jr., 1948-1949. University of Michigan Recording
Project.
AFS 10,873-10,874: Two reels of 7-inch tape at 7.5 ips containing
Lithuanian folksongs. Recorded by Jonas P. Balys in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin,
Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire, 1949-1950.
(LWO 2273)
AFS 10,896-10,897: One 10-inch and one 7-inch reels DT tape at
7.5 ips. Southern Negroes in Michigan singing songs and telling tales.
Recorded by Richard M. Dorson, Michigan State University, 1952. (LWO 2340)
AFS 14,316-14,328: Thirteen spools of wire. Ottawa Indian material,
including hymns, tales, word list, interviews, Nanabojo myths, legends,
interview on the history of Ottawa, etc. Recorded by Jane Willets, 1947.
AFS 17,541-17,567: Twenty-seven 10-inch DT tapes at 7.5 ips. Country,
fiddle, gospel, and blues music and Scottish ballads by various performers.
Recorded by Art Rosenbaum and Pat Dunford in Indiana, Michigan, New York
City, Scotland, and elsewhere. (LWO 8487)
AFS 17,544: Migrant farm workers recorded at Bud Decker Farm
in Allegan County, Michigan, August 1958.
AFS 19,161-19,178: Eighteen 10-inch DT tapes at 7.5 ips. Songs
of Lithuanian immigrants in the United States. Recorded by Jonas P. Balys,
1949-1950. (LWO 9748). Includes some from Michigan.
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