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Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States recording expedition

LC Control No.:	2008700314
Type of Material:	Music Sound Recording (Collection)
Main Title:	Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States recording expedition [sound recording].
Published/Created:	1939.
Related Names:	Halpert, Herbert, collector. » More like this Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) » More like this
Description:	419 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm ; 12 in. + documentation.
Access Advisory:	Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Biographical/Historical Data:	Herbert Halpert was born in New York City, August 23, 1911. He studied folklore and anthropology for his M.A. from Columbia University. During the New Deal he recorded extensive collections of folk music, songs, and tales in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and across the South for the Federal Theatre Project, the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Projects Administration (WPA), and the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1942. He founded the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA), and taught at the University for many years. Halpert died December 29, 2000.
Summary:	Collection of field recordings comprising four hundred and nineteen 12-inch discs of instrumentals, monologs, prayers, sermons, songs, ballads, children's songs, miners' songs, cowboy songs, street cries, and stories recorded in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, by Herbert Halpert, March 15-June 23, 1939, for the Folk Arts Committee of the WPA and the Library of Congress. The collection includes one and one-fourth linear inches of articles, contact sheets, correspondence, descriptions, interviews, lists, photographs, reports, and song texts.
Notes:	Mississippi folk music, Microfilm 97/1112 (M), of Halpert's field notes includes a list of the records made on the recording tour by Halpert and a list of folk music manuscripts and material collected by the Music Project. Microfilm is available in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress. Search for these and other sound recordings (most are dated 1933-1950) in selected collections from the American Folklife Center in the online resource link: Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife Center.
Indexes:	Bibliographic information for titles in this collection is found in the online resource link: Audio titles in the Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition.
Cite as:	Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition (AFC 1939/005), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Performer:	Various performers.
Acquisition Source:	Accessioned, 1939.
Subjects:	Halpert, Herbert--Ethnomusicological collections. » More like this Folk music--Southern States. » More like this Folk songs, English--Southern States. » More like this Fiddle tunes--Southern States. » More like this Ballads, English--Southern States. » More like this Ballads, English--Southern States--Texts. » More like this Tales--Southern States. » More like this Children's songs--Southern States. » More like this Cowboys--Songs and music. » More like this
Form/Genre:	Field recordings--Southern States. » More like this Field notes. » More like this Sermons. » More like this Prayers. » More like this Photographs. » More like this
Local Shelving No.:	LWO 4872 reels 176A-210A AFS 2735-3153 AFC 1939/005
Geographic Area Code:	n-usu--
Repository:	DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
Links:	Audio titles in the Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000128 Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife Center: http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/afccards-home.html