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

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.