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List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

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Collections are listed alphabetically by the primary name in the collection title.

Collections A-D

A

Title: Jane Day Abb / Maryland Legends
Description: Legends, belief tales, ghost stories, etc., recorded at home of Henry Fuller, Shady Spring,
Maryland, November 1969, by Jane Day Abb. Originals held by University of Maryland
Folklore Archive.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17606


Title: Charles S. Adams / New England Recordings
Description: Folklore, folksongs, and fiddle tunes from New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.
Recorded 1961 by Charles S. Adams.
Inclusive Years: 1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14602-14603


Title: Hawley Ades / Dictionary of American Folk Song Themes
Description: Thematic (tune) index to American folk songs. Date unknown.
AFC Number: AFC 1984/027
AFS Number: N/A


Title: David Adler Cultural Center / "In the Tradition" Concert Series
Description: Eleven videocassettes of interviews and concert footage from the "In the Tradition"concert series featuring eleven programs produced by the David Adler Cultural Center with support
from the National Endowment for the Arts, Libertyville Rotary Club, and the Illinois Arts
Council. The performances showcase various traditions including blues, Irish,
Scandinavian, and Middle Eastern songs, as well as fiddling and ballads from Missouri and
Indiana. Recorded in Libertyville, Illinois at the Libertyville High School Studio Theater,
1989. The collection includes eighteen pages of concert fliers and descriptions of each
performer and performance. Some performers featured on separate video programs
performed together in concerts.
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1990/015
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Ilze Akerbergs / Turku Pupa (Latvian) Cassette Collection
Description: A dubbed copy of a published album by the Latvian folksong group Vilcejas, singing
traditional songs for work and dance as well as Easter and childrens' songs. Six sheets of
lyrics, one page of brief song-explanations in English, a photocopied insert identifying the
performers and a handwritten insert with the same are included in the collection.
Inclusive Years: 1897
AFC Number: AFC 1995/019
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Alamanac Singers / Cowboy Yodels
Description: Two 10-inch and four 12-inch discs of songs sung by the Almanac Singers, Alan and John
A. Lomax, and Earl Robinson. Recorded in New York City, January 1942. The collection
includes a one-page song list; AFS 6104[?] includes a record of cowboy yodels by John A.
Lomax, made in the Recording Laboratory in the spring of 1941 in connection with the
preparation of the Ballad Hunter series.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6100-6105


Title: Alaska Native Musicale Collection / Native American gospel music
Description: Cassettes containing Native American gospel music from the 1983 through 1993 Native
Musicales, plus one undated cassette labeled "Simeon Anarkin, "He's there all the time."
Languages or tribal affiliations mentioned are: Tanaina, Yupik, Inupiaq, Eskimo. Many
groups represented on each Musicale cassette.
Inclusive Years: 1983-1993
AFC Number: AFC 1994/004
AFS Number:


Title: Professor Alderson / Fiddle Tunes and Folk Songs from Oregon
Description: Two 16-inch discs of fiddle tunes and songs recorded in Portland, Oregon, by William L.
Alderson, 1946-48.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10366-10367


Title: Edith Allarie Recordings
Description: Recording of folk songs made by Miss Edith Allaire at the Library of Congress in the Studio.
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9164


Title: John W. Allen / It Happened in Southern Illinois
Description: Press releases of a weekly column series entitled "It Happened in Southern Illinois" on
regional folklore and historical accounts from Southern Illinois.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1964
AFC Number: AFC 1964/001
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Fennie Allison Family Lore Collection
Description: Family lore and oral history recorded by Mrs. Fennie Allison who grew up in North Carolina,
1903-1921.
Inclusive Years: early 1900s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19368


Title: American Dialect Society / Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada
Demonstration Collection
Description: Selected recordings from the American Dialect Society's Linguistic Atlas of the United
States and Canada discs, recorded throughout the United States in the 1930s by Nathaniel
Caffee, Marguerite Chapallaz, Walter C. Garwick, Miles L. Hanley, Guy S. Lowman, Robert L.
Stone, and Lorenzo Turner; also contains excerpts of these selections prepared for a
demonstration given by Joseph C. Hickerson, Head of the Archive of Folk Culture, at the
American Dialect Society meeting held at the Library of Congress, December 24, 1984.
Inclusive Years: 1930s~1984
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23252-23255


Title: American Fiddling Styles Workshop
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of instrumentals performed on fiddle by Joe Meadows, originally of
southern West Virginia, and Brendan Mulvihill. Recorded at the Library of Congress at a
workshop-demonstration entitled "American Fiddling Styles" sponsored by the American
Folklife Center, November 17, 1986. The collection includes seven pages of collection
inventory, ephemera, lists of photos, photocopies of tape boxes, and a press release.
Inclusive Years: 1986
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1990/008
AFS Number: AFS 26958-26959


Title: American Folk Song Festival, 26th Year
Description: American Folk Song Festival: 26th Year. June 10, 1956, Ashland, Kentucky. Director, Jean
Thomas.
Inclusive Years: 1956
AFC Number: AFC 1974/007
AFS Number: AFS 17004


Title: American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List (1982 to 1992)
Description: Administrative materials generated by annual panel meetings of traditional music
specialists leading to ten editions of the American Folklife Center’s publication American
Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List. The Selected List was an annotated
discography intended to help promote the best recordings of American folk music and
folklore issued by various companies and organizations the preceding year. The manuscript
portion of the collection includes a complete set of the ten Selected Lists,
correspondence from the primarily small independent record labels and organizations who
donated recordings, correspondence with panelists; panel meeting agendas, minutes, and
notes on the selection process; correspondence with organizations whose recordings were
or were not selected; lists of recordings received; materials pertaining to production and
editing of the publication, including contact sheets and negatives of cover images from
recordings; publicity generated by the project, and additional miscellaneous material. The
sound recording portion of the collection includes twenty audiocassettes documenting the
panel’s deliberations during selection meetings for the 1989, 1990, and 1991 editions of
the Selected List.
Inclusive Years: 1983-1994
AFC Number: AFC 1983/017
AFS Number: N/A


Title: American Folklife Center / 1998 North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance Lifetime
Achievement Award
Description: Videorecording of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented to the American Folklife
Center at the 1998 North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance Conference, February 2,
1998.
Inclusive Years: 1998
Duration: 7:09
AFC Number: AFC 1998/031
AFS Number: N/A


Title: AFC 10th Anniversary Week Collection
Description: Activities of May 21 and 22, 1986 relative to the 10th Anniversary of the authorization of the
American Folklife Center. Folder 1: Inventory; Fldr 2: PL94-201; Fldr 3: Publicity; Fldr 4:
Symposium announcement, invitations; Fldr 5: Symposium participants; Fldr 6: Contracts,
arrangements; Fldr 7: Symposium schedule; Fldr 8: Reception Invitation; Fldr 9: Reception
arrangements; Fldr 10: Party--Neptune Plaza; Fldr 11: Alan Jabbour's draft remarks; Fldr 12:
Correspondence; Fldr 13: Memos; Fldr 14: Expenses; Fldr 15: Tape recordings.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1987/003
AFS Number: AFS 26220-26225


Title: American Folklife Center 1986 Colloquy on University Education
Description: Background and proceedings of 2nd Colloquy on Folklife in University Education [see 1984
Colloquy]. Folder 1: Inventory/Introduction; Folder 2: Colloquy participants; Folder 3:
Participant contracts and agreements; Folddr 4: LC Arrangements and Schedule; Folder 5:
Expenses; Folder 6: Correspondence; Folder: 7: Alan Jabbour--Thoughts after colloquy;
Folder 8: Tape recordings of sessions. Part of American Folklife Center 10th Anniversary
Week Collection.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 26215-26219


Title: American Folklife Center Tenth Anniversary Concert Collection
Description: Armenian, Greek and Turkish vocal and instrumental music performed on clarinet, dumbek,
kannon, and oud, by Leo Sarkisian's Armenian Ensemble, followed by bluegrass vocals and
instrumentals performed on banjo, fiddle, guitar and mandolin, by the Johnson Mountain
Boys, in concert at the Library of Congress Neptune Plaza, May 22, 1986. Third concert
presented by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Council for the
Traditional Arts and part of a three day celebration to commemorate the Center's tenth
anniversary. Recorded by Pete Reiniger.
Inclusive Years: 1986
Duration: 1.75 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24295-24298


Title: American Folklife Center Establishment Reception, 1976
Description: Reception sponsored by the American Folklore Society and the Library of Congress in honor
of the American Folklife Center, February 19, 1976. Speeches by Daniel Boorstin, Archie
Green, Sen. Abourezk, Reps. Brademas, Nedz ?, Prior and Thompson; and Profs. K.
Goldstein and D. Hymes. Performances by Tony Alderman, The Irish Tradition, Liz Cotten,
John Jackson, The Country Gentlemen and Mariachi America. Recorded by Jay Kingery,
Inc.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18087-18088


Title: American Folklore Genres Lectures
Description: Thirty-six cassettes of lectures on American folklore genres delivered by various
ethnomusicologists and folklorists. Recorded and produced by Everett/Edward, Inc.,
Deland, Florida, 1979.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19922-19957


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Richard Reuss Interview of Thelma James
Description: Interview of Thelma James by Richard Reuss, February 20 and March 13, 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19400-19401


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project Establishment
Description: Meeting of the Historiography Committee of the American Folklore Society, November 8,
1969, in Atlanta, Georgia. Discussion centered on the establishment of the American
Folklore Society Oral History Project. Speakers included Richard Dorson, Richard Reuss,
Neil Rosenberg, Joseph Hickerson, and Dan Ben-Amos.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19797-19798


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / William A. "Bert" Wilson Interview of Austin
Fife
Description: Interview with Austin Fife by William A. Wilson, May 31, 1972.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19540


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Francis A. de Caro and Rosan A. Jordan
Interview of Americo Paredes
Description: Interviews of Americo Paredes by Francis A. de Caro and Rosan A. Jordan, Austin, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19410-19413


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Richard Reuss Interview of Richard M.
Dorson
Description: Interview of Richard Dorson by Richard Reuss at American Folklore Society annual
meeting, November 2, 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19409


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Inteviews about Emelyn E. Gardner
Description: Interviews conducted by Joanne C. Lynch with Orville Francis Linck, Ellen J. Stekert,
Mildren Marie Connely, Alexander Brede, and Ruth (Mrs. Clarence) Hilberry, on the subject of
Emelyn E. Gardner. Recorded June-July 1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19402-19406


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Roger Abrahams Interview of Mody C.
Boatright
Description: Interview of Mody C. Boatright by Roger D. Abrahams conducted at American Folklore
Society annual meeting in Atlanta, November 5, 1969.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19399


Title: American Folklore Society 1950 Annual Meeting Intermission Program Collection
Description: One 16-inch disc of an "intermission program #12" with Librarian of Congress Luther Evans,
Thelma James, and Louis C. Jones of Cooperstown, New York, on the occasion of the
61st Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society. Recorded in Washington, D.C., at
the Library of Congress, January 5, 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1950
Duration: 15 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1950/001
AFS Number:


Title: American Folklore Society Annual Meeting / Place-Name Session
Description: Place-Names session of American Folklore Society annual meeting, Washington, D.C.,
Nov. 13, 1971. Incompletely recorded.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15228


Title: American Folklore Society Oral History Project / Patrick B. Mullen and Richard Reuss
Interviews of Francis Lee Utley
Description: Interviews of Francis Lee Utley by Patrick B. Mullen, July 19, 1973, and by Patrick B. Mullen
and Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting, Nashville, November
3, 1973.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19407-19408


Title: American Record Company / Royal Hawaiian Troubadours
Description: Twenty-four 10-inch discs of Hawaiian folk music performed by the Royal Hawaiian
Troubadors with various musicians. Recorded in 1905 and produced by the American
Record Company. The collection includes three-eighths linear inch of correspondence,
logs, and photocopies of discs displaying the production company name and location.
Duration: 1 hr. 28 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11759-11782


Title: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Directory of Folklife and Crafts Resources
Collection
Description: Research for the compilation of American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA)
directory.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Tom Anderson and Pam Swing / Shetland Fiddle Tunes Collection
Description: Herman Von Bernowitz and wife Francine playing on mandolin and guitar. Recorded at the
Library of Congress, February 19, 1976. Interviewed by Scott Hambly.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20094-20096


Title: Margaret Anderson / Norwegian American Songs from Wisconsin
Description: Norah Anderson of Wisconsin singing Norwegian-American folksongs, recorded 1972.
Includes English and Norwegian songs.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1973/004
AFS Number: AFS 15424


Title: Tom Anderson / Pam Swing Shetland Fiddle Tunes Collection
Description: Tom Anderson (fiddle) and Violet Tulloch (piano) perform and comment in dialect on
Shetland fiddle tunes. Recorded after 1976. Accompanying cassette booklet prepared by
Robert Innes, Director of Continuing Education, University of Sterling, Scotland.
Inclusive Years: post-1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20093


Title: John Q. Anderson Collection
Description: John Q. Anderson Collection of lectures, interviews, and performances of Civil War, frontier,
slave and Louisiana (French, creole, early jazz) folksongs and ballads (Western, American,
English, Scottish); songs composed by Anderson and Everett A. Gills; live recordings of
Texas Folklore Society Programs (1963-1966) with performances by John A. Lomax, Jr.;
play party games arranged for the Lake Charles Ballet Society; misc. Latin American and
Spanish songs; Australian gold rush songs and sea chanties.
Inclusive Years: 1963-1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20184-20197


Title: Mr. And Mrs. Charles Anderson Recordings
Description: One disc containing seven songs sung by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson of Baltimore,
Maryland, recorded at the Library of Congress in April 1947 by Duncan Emrich, Arthur D.
Semmig, and Herman Norwood.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8934


Title: Larry Appelbaum / "Remembering Ralph Rinzler" Collection
Description: A collage of memories and tales about Ralph Rinzler by his friends and colleagues, James
Early, Richard Kurin, Jeffrey LaRiche, and Mike Seeger. This was broadcast on WPFW-FM
(Washington, DC) on July 17, 1994; the show was hosted by Larry Appelbaum and
produced by Melinda Messore.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1996/013
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Archive Cohorts / Interview with Joseph C. Hickerson
Description: Interview by Jill Linzee, Aldona Joseph, Jeff Place, and Mary Cliff with Joseph C.
Hickerson, Library of Congress Recording Lab, April 17, 1987, on Joe's participation in folk
music revival.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1987/009
AFS Number:


Title: The Archive of American Folk Song in 1930s (motion picture)
Description: Video contains segments of film clips made by John, Alan, and Bess Lomax during
recording expeditions in the 1930s. All the clips are silent footage; color and
black-and-white. It is believed that Alan wanted to use it to show off the Archives' collections. Includes logs.
Inclusive Years: 1930s
Duration: 55 min.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/017
AFS Number: AFS 27010


Title: Archive of Folk Song Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium Collection
Description: Papers and discussion on the past, present, and future of the Archive of Folk Song.
Participants include Sterling Brown, Norman Cohen, Archie Green, Herbert Halpert,
Wayland D. Hand, Joseph C. Hickerson, Alan Jabbour, Debora Kodish, Alan Lomax, Carol
Nemeyer, James Porter, and Charles Seeger. Recorded at the Whittall Pavilion of the
Library of Congress, November 16, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20105-20107


Title: Archive of Folk Song Fiftieth Anniversary Concert Collection
Description: Songs, ballads, and banjo music by Dee and Delta Hicks of Tinchtown, Tennessee; blues
and bottleneck guitar by David "Honeyboy" Edwards of Chicago, Illinois; and fiddling by
Benny Thomasson of Arlington, Texas. Also includes an introduction by Alan Jabbour,
Director of the American Folklife Center, and remarks by Burl Ives and Joseph C. Hickerson,
Head of the Archive of Folk Song. Recorded at Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of
Congress, November 16, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20103-20104


Title: Arete: The Memories of Greek-American Women: An Oral History Collection Project,
1987-1988
Description: Oral history interviews with people of Greek descent living in the U.S., conducted by
members of the Daughters of Penelope. Interviewers received questionnaires and release
forms. Subjects include biographical data, also may include folklore-related info, e.g., on
holidays, marriage, birth, death, and working (see questionnaires). Sound quality varies.
Inclusive Years: 1987-1988
AFC Number: AFC 1990/016
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Arikara Dictaphone Belt Recordings, University of Chicago, Fort Berthold Project Records
Description: Two 7-inch tapes copied from fifteen dictabelts of Arikara spoken word by an unknown
Arikara ceremonial leader. Recorded at the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, by Sol
Tax, 1950-53 as part of the records of the Action Anthropology Project of the University of
Chicago. Accompanying manuscript materials for these recordings are at the National
Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Supposed to be recordings of "an elderly
Arikara ceremonial leader who is now dead." Deposited in the Smithsonian, NAA by Sol
Tax. Records also include fieldnotes, correspondence, historical materials, records of the
Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Council, "The Warrior" & "Fort Berthold Newsletter."
Duration: 3 hrs. 10 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/032
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Arkansas Folk Songs
Description: "Jolly Old Crow" and "Brien O'Lin sung by Frank Rastell (Frankie Mars). Recorded by Mrs.
Mabel Rastell of Chester, Arkansas.
AFC Number: AFC 1948/020
AFS Number: AFS 8352


Title: Arlington County [Virginia] Folk Arts Program Oral History Project
Description: Oral history project sponsored by the Arlington (Virginia) County Folk Arts Project.
Interviews with older county residents by high school students, directed by Lynn Mailloux.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19422-19433


Title: Interviews with Hobart Smith and May Kennedy McCord, 1963
Description: Oral history interviews with Hobart Smith and May Kennedy McCord, with singing and
instrumental accompaniment, recorded by George and Gerry Armstrong in 1963. Keywords:
Maryland Virginia
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19883-19885


Title: George Armstrong / Interview with Joseph C. Hickerson
Description: "The Wandering Folksong" radio program, WFMT-FM (Chicago) December 6, 1974, featuring
an interview of Joseph C. Hickerson on the Archive of Folk Song by George Armstrong
(recorded May 13, 1974).
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17478


Title: George Armstrong Radio (WFMT) Interview with Joseph C. Hickerson 1974 Collection
Description: Interview of Joe Hickerson at the Library of Congress by George Armstrong for his radio
program "The Wandering Folk Song" on WFMT-FM, May, 1974. Broadcast December 6,
1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: AFC 1987/010
AFS Number: AFS 24366


Title: George Armstrong Radio Program Collection
Description: "Cecil Sharp in the Southern Appalachians," broadcast on WFMT (Chicago) November 21,
1980, and "Brasstown (North Carolina) Memories," never broadcast. Contains interviews with
Olive Dame Campbell, Jean Ritchie Pickow, Edna Ritchie Baker, and others, recorded by
George Armstrong, ca. 1980.
Inclusive Years: c.1980
Duration: 50 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20101-20102


Title: Malvin Artley Duplication Project
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals performed primarily on fiddle by Emory Bailey and Uncle
Pat Co[u]gar of Gem, West Virginia, and Arden Wilson of Harrisville, West Virginia.
Recorded in the Allegheny Mountain area of central West Virginia primarily by Malvin Artley,
fall 1951. The collection includes Artley's 119-page Ph.D. dissertation in Music, "The West
Virginia Country Fiddler: An Aspect of the Folk Music Tradition in the United States"
(Chicago: Chicago Musical College, 1955), and four pages of lists.
Inclusive Years: 1951
Duration: Two hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14087


Title: Malvin Newton Artley / The West Virginia Country Fiddler: An Aspect of the Folk Music
Tradition in the United States
Description: Dissertation: Chicago Musical College. See also AFS 14087.
Inclusive Years: 1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Asch Recordings Dub of Earl Robinson and Dooley Wilson
Description: One 12-inch disc of "Free and Equal Blues" sung with piano by Earl Robinson and Dooley
Wilson. Recorded by Asch Recordings in New York City and presented to the Archive by the
songwriter E.Y. Harburg, February 1945. Words are by E. Y. Harburg.
Inclusive Years: 1945
Duration: 6 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1945/004
AFS Number: AFS 6177


Title: Clarence Tom Ashley Collection
Description: Recordings from the Clarence Tom Ashley Collection, Oral History Archives, East
Tennessee State University. Includes festival, classroom and commercial release
performances by Ashley and others, including G. Foster, Carolina Tarheels, and Tex Isley.
Inclusive Years: 1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19545-19547


Title: Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), Washington Chapter, Archive of Folk
Culture Researchers Panel, March 28, 2001
Description: Free public presentation of the Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association
for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) featuring three Archive of Folk Culture researchers:
Todd Harvey speaking on Bob Dylan's "House of the Rising Sun" and set-list for Dylan's
appearance at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival; Mark Jackson speaking on obscure
performances and recordings of Woody Guthrie, including Guthrie's songs "This Land Is
Your Land" and "Jolly Banker," his radio play broadcast on syphilis, interactions with Alan
Lomax, etc.; Stephen Wade presenting a paper on the ultimate effect of research in the
Archive on his audience, including unexpected connections that the audience establishes
with their own family backgrounds and previous generations. Warren Porter then spoke on
his family's connection with Wade's performance. The panel was moderated by Kip Lornell.
Inclusive Years: 2001
AFC Number: AFC 2001/005
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Louis Attebery / Folk Music Festival at the College of Idaho, 1971
Description: Folk music festival at the College of Idaho, Caldwell, August 4, 1971. Includes Joe
Hickerson, J. Barre Toelken, Linda Danielson and Idaho fiddlers Loyd Wanzer, Rue Frisbee
and Vivian Skeans.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: AFC 1974/004
AFS Number: AFS 16997-16998


Title: Elizabeth Atwood and Catherine Walker / Black Children's Chants
Description: Black children's chanted "cheers," ring games, clapping/rhyming songs, jump-rope related
songs all by sixth grade girls of the Brightwood School, Washington, D.C.; also an interview
with Jean Alexander concerning these. Recorded in October 1976 by Elizabeth Atwood
and Catherine Walker.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19146-19147


Title: Audubon Expedition Institute / Oral History Interview with Ambry Archer
Description: Oral history interview with Ambry Archer of Lubec, Maine, conducted by the students of the
Audubon Expedition Institute, National Audubon Society, on October 3, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19365-19367


Title: Austrian Good Will Group / Austrian Folksongs
Description: One 16-inch disc of "Und taut's im Tal regnen" (When it's raining in the valley), "Erzherzog
Johann Jodler" (Archduke Johann Yodeler), "Wenn ich auf hohen Bergen steh" (When I
stand on high mountains), and "Drunt in der Schintergruabm" (Down in the Schintergruabm),
sung by the Austrian Good Will Group of Austria. Recorded at the Library of Congress by
Herman Norwood, December 28, 1949. The collection includes twelve pages of
correspondence and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1949
Duration: 11 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10365


Title: Austrian Phonogrammarchiv Collection
Description: Eight 5-inch tapes of dance tunes, instrumentals, interviews, songs, and a wedding in the
Croatian, German, and Hungarian languages. Recorded at various locations in Austria.
Received on exchange from the Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften, June 1959. The collection includes one-fourth linear inch of lists.
Duration: 10.2 hrs.? (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11581-11588

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Title: Marcus Bach / Iowa Recordings
Description: Records made by Marcus Bach in Iowa. List. Keywords: Norwegian-American
Danish-American
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7738-7753


Title: Marcus Bach and Addison Alspach / Iowa Recordings
Description: Recorded by Marcus Bach and Addison Alspach in Iowa, September, October, and
November, 1943. List. Keywords: Danish-American Czech-American German-American
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/011
AFS Number: AFS 7068-7082


Title: Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Gang Collection
Description: Copy of 12 songs recorded by the Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Gang 1948-1954 on
the Canary, Rich-R-Tone and WWVA labels.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14167


Title: Laurence Baker / Ozark Stories and Songs
Description: Laurence Baker, nicknamed "Mister B," tells stories from Hayti and Poke-Oozy Holler,
Missouri. Baker sings songs from the Ozarks with autoharp accompaniment. Recorded by
Old Time Music of Barrington, New Jersey, prior to March 1978.
Inclusive Years: prior to March 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19360


Title: E.C. Ball Recordings
Description: Guitar pieces, played and recorded by E. C. Ball, Volney, Virginia, October 1967.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13479


Title: E.C. Ball Virginia Folk Songs Recordings
Description: One 7-inch tape of E. C. Ball recorded by himself at Volney, Virginia, 1954. List on tape box.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10834


Title: John Ball, Bruce Buckley, and Harold Apel / Ohio Recordings
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of a fiddling contest in Darke County, Ohio; songs, and stories
recorded in Portsmouth, Ohio, by John Ball and Bruce Buckley, July 1951 June 1952; and
boogie-woogie piano playing and singing (also origin of skiffle) piano playing and singing
by Rufus Perryman (Speckled Red), recorded by John Ball, 1955. The collection includes
one-fourth linear inch of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1952-1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11330-11332


Title: Balmoral School of Highland Piping (Scottish) Cassette
Description: Music of Mike Cusack who teaches pipes at St. Thomas Episcopal School in Houston,
Texas. Bagpipes Scottish
Inclusive Years: 1990s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/015
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Jonas Balys / Lithuanian Folksongs
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of Lithuanian folk songs. Recorded by Dr. Jonas Balys of Indiana
University. List. Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan New Jersey Wisconsin New Hampshire
Massachusetts Illinois [see also AFS 19,161-19178 and AFS 18,805]
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10873-10874


Title: Jonas Balys / Lithuanian American Recordings
Description: Eighteen 10-inch tapes of Greek and Lithuanian songs recorded in Connecticut, Illinois,
Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin by Jonas Balys, 1949-59. The collection
includes five linear inches of manuscripts containing an alphabetic index of songs, copies
of six diaries of field expeditions, and photocopies of original tape boxes having
supplementary information. [see also AFS 10,751, AFS 10,873-10,874, and AFS 18,805]
Inclusive Years: 1949-1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19161-19178


Title: Jonas Balys / Lithuanian Songs in the U.S.
Description: Lithuanian emigrant songs in the United States. Recorded by Jonas Balys in the United
States, 1949-1950.
Inclusive Years: 1949-1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18805


Title: Jonas Balys / Greek and Lithuanian Songs
Description: One 7-inch tape of eight Greek folk and popular songs sung by Georgia Tarsouli. Recorded
by Jonas Balys in Bloomington, Indiana, November 1, 1951. [see also AFS 19,161-19178,
AFS 10,873-10,874, and AFS 18,805]
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10751


Title: Summer Banner / Fourth Festival of Pacific Arts: 1985 Video Collection
Description: Video documentary on the Fourth Festival of the Pacific Arts held in Papeete, Tahiti,
June/July 1985. Produced by Summer Banner.
Inclusive Years: 1985
AFC Number: AFC 1987/007
AFS Number:


Title: Marius Barbeau / French Canadian Songs
Description: Songs collected at Les Eboulements, Charlevoix County, Quebec; copied from cylinders
sent by the National Museum of Canada (Ottawa). Recorded by Marius Barbeau in 1916.
Inclusive Years: 1916
AFC Number: AFC 1945/002
AFS Number: AFS 6110-6143


Title: Robert Barlow / Nahautl Texts and Totonac and Yaqui Songs
Description: Six 10-inch discs of Nahuatl texts and Totonac and Yaqui songs. All discs labeled
" Grabacion Casa Llaloc, Azcapotzalco, D.F." Recorded by Robert Barlow, ca. 1949.
Inclusive Years: 1949 ?
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14379-14384


Title: Gordon Barnes / Tygart Valley Festival, 1939
Description: Five 12-inch discs of instrumentals and songs performed by Adalena, Addison, and
Kathlene Boserman; Joe Haddix; Bob, Dewey, and Myrlo Hamrick; the Happy Mountaineers;
Ted Henderson; Cathaline, Geraldine, and Wilma Leigh (Wilma Lee Cooper) Leary; Mr. and
Mrs. Orris Poling; Willie Sigler; and Junior Thompson. Recorded at the Tygart Valley
Homesteads, Elkins, West Virginia, by Gordon Barnes, April 4-5, 1939, for the Farm
Security Administration.
Inclusive Years: 1939
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3571-3575


Title: William Barnes Interview Collection
Description: Oral history interview transcript with William Barnes discussing the traditional wooden boat
building techniques. Interview conducted by Abbot Sprague. Harpswell, Maine.
Inclusive Years: 1977-78
AFC Number: AFC 1978/006
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Cadle Recordings Collection
Description: Tape copy of 18 acetate discs recorded by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Cadle between 1935
and 1945 in Tennessee, Kentucky and New York City. Individuals recorded include Huddie
Ledbetter, Aunt Molly Jackson, Jean Ritchie, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1935-1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18963


Title: Steven Barr Yiddish Song Project
Description: Yiddish songs sung by Rose Cohen, a woman of Russian Jewish descent, who learned
them in a socialist school in Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1914. Recorded by Steven Barr in
Bethesda, Marylandl, in April 1980.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20198


Title: Sheila Barrett Recording of English Tales
Description: One 16-inch disc of two English stories spoken by Sheila Barrett of New York City.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress, March 14, 1947.
Duration: 15 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8929


Title: Marietta Barron / Song and Belief Collection
Description: Minstrel songs by Grover Cleveland Taylor; songs by his daughter Marietta Barron and by
Marie Sullivan; beliefs and cures from Afro-American, American Indian, Appalachian, Irish,
and Scottish sources by Marietta Barron and Marie Sullivan. Recorded by Marietta Barron in
1973 and 1982, place unknown.
Inclusive Years: 1973 and 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22191-22192


Title: Joseph Barth / Puerto Rican Religious Ceremonies
Description: Four 16-inch discs of religious ceremonies recorded in Puerto Rico by Joseph Barth ca.
1948.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1948
Duration: 1 hr. 45 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8946-8949


Title: Peter Bartis / A Preliminary Classification System for Hollers in the United States
Description: Thesis: University of North Carolina
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Bela Bartok / Folk music of Hungary
Description: Folk music of Hungary. Recorded on cylinders by Bela Bartok in the 1910s, duplicated by
Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.
Inclusive Years: 1910s
Duration: 10 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12307


Title: Walter E. Barton Interview Collection
Description: Four 7-inch tapes of an interview with Walter E. Barton concerning his memories of life in
Posey County, Indiana, in the early 1900s. He discusses family life, farm life, childhood
activities, herbal remedies, and his decision to leave Indiana. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., by Gerald E. Parsons, Jr. and Margaret B. Parsons, June 27, 1981. The collection
includes one contact sheet of nineteen black-and-white images, twenty-nine pages of
correspondence, interview data, logs, newspaper articles, a speech transcript, tape
summaries, and one hand-drawn map of Barton's home.
Inclusive Years: 1900-1981
Duration: 4 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22486-22489


Title: Basketry Workshop Collection
Description: Panel discussion on white oak basketry sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Panel
members include Peggy Bulger, Lucreaty Clark, Rosemary Joyce, Ormond Loomis, and
Dwight Stump. Recorded in Madison Assembly Room of the Library of Congress, April 8,
1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22493


Title: Bruce Bastin and Richard K. Spottswood / Frank Hovington Recordings
Description: Frank Hovington, Negro singer and guitar and banjo player recorded at his Frederica,
Delaware home by Bruce Bastin and Richard K. Spottswood, July 5-6, 1975 (see also AFS
18,725-31).
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18943-18944


Title: Ardith Bausenbach / Pete Seeger 1972 Oberlin Commencement Collection
Description: This audiocassette contains a recording of part of Oberlin College's 1972 commencement
ceremony featuring an address and performance given by Pete Seeger. Included are
comentary interspersed with the following seven songs: "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd," "The
Riflemen of Bennington," "Fixing to Die Rag," "Guantanamera," "Sailing Up My Dirty Stream,"
" Wimoweh," "Jacob's Ladder."
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1996/032
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Samuel Preston Bayard / Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife Manuscript Collection
Description: Original manuscript for the book _Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife: Instrumental Folk
Tunes in Pennsylvania_.
Inclusive Years: 1980-1981
AFC Number: AFC 1980/015
AFS Number: N/A


Title: BBC / British Isles Folk Music
Description: Forty-six 12-inch discs of customs, instrumentals, and songs recorded in Great Britain and
Ireland by various collectors, 1943-49, for the British Broadcasting Corporation. The
collection includes one-half linear inch of accession entries, correspondence, and
transcriptions. Keywords: England, Scotland, Ireland, Gaelic; Seamus Ennis.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9917-9962


Title: BBC Collection of British Folk Music and Customs
Description: Ten 10-inch and seven 12-inch discs of customs, dances, instrumentals, a mumming play,
and songs, recorded in Cornwall, County Antrim, Dyfed, Gloucestershire, Isle of Lewis,
Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, and Somerset by various collectors, 1937-46, for the British
Broadcasting Corporation. The collection includes ten pages of lists. Ireland; England; British.
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9011-9027


Title: Robert Beach Fiddle Tunes
Description: Three 7-inch tapes of eighty-seven tunes played on fiddle by Robert P. Beach, originally of
Lenox, Iowa, accompanied by Iolene Beach, Joseph Winn, and others. Recorded in
Springfield, Virginia, by Joseph C. Hickerson, March 26, 1966. The collection includes a
three-page list of Mr. Beach's repertoire and a text of "The Irish Jubilee."
Inclusive Years: 1966
Duration: 3 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12359-12361


Title: Charles W. Bean / George "Speedy" Krise Videocassette Collection
Description: One videocassette of a documentary on the valuable contributions made to early country
music by George "Speedy" Krise, veteran dobroist and songwriter. This documentary was
produced by Library of Congress staffers Charles Bean and Ray Schmitt, and was screened
at the Mary Pickford Theater of Library of Congress on November 9, 1995. Keywords: dobro
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1996/004
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Charles Bean and Derrick Jones West Virginia Folk Music Project, Part I
Description: Performers include the Hammons Family, Dewey Farley, Melvin Wine, Stan Childers,
Russell Fluharty, and Phoebe Parsons. Also a party at home of Howard Glasser, Westport,
Massachusetts, featuring South American Music (Ecuador). Collected by Charles Bean and
Derrick Jones, July 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19526-19535


Title: Billy Beard Interview
Description: One 7-inch tape of an interview with Dewey Beard, the last Sioux survivor of the Battle of
Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand). Recorded in Rapid City, South Dakota, by Bates
Littlehales, June 18, 1955.
Inclusive Years: 1955
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11403


Title: Katharine Beardmore / Cuban Folk Music
Description: Six 12-inch discs of drum rhythms of five Afro-Cuban popular dances (columbia, comparsa,
conga, guaguancó, and lucumí) and one example of combined rhythms played by an
ensemble of five musicians. Recorded possibly in Havana, Cuba, by Katharine Beardmore,
ca. 1947-48. The collection includes eight pages of correspondence, descriptions, and
Duration: 22 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1948/025
AFS Number: AFS 8562-8567


Title: Alice Brady Beckmann / Alexander Brady Collection
Description: Songs, poetry, and reminiscences by Alexander Brady, Pennsylvania-born lumberjack,
peddlar, pharmacist, minister, and versifier; also songs and reminiscences of Mr. Brady by
his daughter, Alice Brady Brackmann. Recorded by Alice Brady Beckmann, January 31,
1964, place unknown.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22561


Title: Martha Beckwith Cylinder Duplication Project
Description: Preservation tape of 12 cylinders of Jamaica Negro music from the Martha Beckwith
Collection, 1920-1924. Cylinders deposited in the Library by Helen Roberts, February 21,
1937.
Inclusive Years: 1920-1924
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19825


Title: Donald A. Beisswenger / Fiddling Way Out Yonder: Community and Style in the Fiddle
Music of Melvin Wine
Description: Dissertation
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Gaston Bejarano / Bolivian Folk Music
Description: Folk music of Bolivia recorded in 1958-61 by Gaston Bejarano.
Inclusive Years: 1958-1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19711


Title: Belgian National Institute for Radio-Broadcasting / Belgian Music
Description: Four 10-inch tapes of ethnic music recorded at various locations in Belgium by the Belgian
National Institute for Radio-Broadcasting, sometime before June 1964. The collection
includes two pages of lists. "Ethnischen Musick voor Library Congress of Washington.
Platen Bezorgd aan Verschillende Landen, Instituten en Universiteiten als Gift via de Heer
Swaehepoel."
Duration: 75 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12092-12095


Title: Edward Bell Collection of Ruth Mae Gasper Bell and Margot Mayo Recordings
Description: Home recordings of American soldiers' songs made in New York City after World War II.
[According to a note on his own cassette copy made years ago from some parts of these
78s, the performer's name was Steven (or Stephen) Lee.]
Inclusive Years: 1940s-1950s
AFC Number: AFC 2004/022
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Carolyn Bennett-Speed / Koko Taylor Collection
Description: Blues singer Koko Taylor is interviewed by donor on 107 FM radio, San Jose State
University. Taylor discusses blues singing in Tennessee and her associations with blues
artists Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1996/005
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Monroe Benton / American Indian Music
Description: Songs, chants and dance music of the Apache, Crow, Cuchan, Hopi, Kiowa, Laguna,
Navajo, Oyeh, Pima, Santa Anna, Ute, and Zuni Indians. Largely recorded at Inter-Tribal
Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico, August 14, 1969; also at All-Indian Pow Wow, Flagstaff,
Arizona, July 4, 1969, and elsewhere.
Inclusive Years: 1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19182-19186


Title: Ed and Geraldine Berbaum / Willie D. Jones Fiddling Collection
Description: Fiddle tunes by Willie D. Jones of Old Town, Florida. One field recording and two
published cassettes called "Heart of Dixie," volumes 1 and 2. Three newspaper clippings
and one color xerox of photograph of Jones. Includes a 3-page log. See also Jehile
Kirkhuff Old-Time Music Fund (Ed and Geraldine Berbaum).
Inclusive Years: 1994-1998
AFC Number: AFC 1998/023
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Ed and Geraldine Berbaum / Ronald Nauman Fiddling Collection
Description: Ed and Geraldine Berbaum donated two 20-minute audiotapes of Pennsylvania fiddler,
Ronald Nauman (of Mount Pocono). The tapes were made by Mr. Berbaum on January 17,
1984. The tapes contain 22 tunes performed by Nauman, and are part of a larger recording
and preservation project (The Jehile Kirkhuff Old Time Music Fund) directed by the
Berbaums.
Inclusive Years: 1984
AFC Number: AFC 1998/026
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Gene Berger / "Custer's Last Stand" Related by Col. Willard Webb
Description: One 7-inch tape of Col. Willard Webb relating the events of the Battle of Little Big Horn
(Custer's Last Stand) and describing General Custer. Includes a Sioux song written in
celebration of the Native American victory. Interviewed by Gene Berger and recorded in
Washington, D.C., by WOL-AM, ca. November 1951.
Inclusive Years: 1951
Duration: 10 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14241


Title: Berkeley Folk Festival, 1960
Description: Workshop participants include Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, New Lost City Ramblers,
Sam Hinton, John Lomax, Slim Critchlow, Sandy Paton.
Inclusive Years: 1960
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19450-19454


Title: Berline, Crary, Hickman / American Folklife Center Concert Collection
Description: Bluegrass vocal and instrumental music performed by Byron Berline (fiddle), Dan Crary
(guitar), and John Hickman (banjo) in concert at the Library of Congress Neptune Plaza,
April 24, 1986. First in a series of concerts presented by the American Folklife Center in
cooperation with the National Council for Traditional Arts to commemorate the tenth
anniversary of the American Folklife Center. Recorded by Pete Reiniger.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24234-24236


Title: Leo H. Berman / A Night With Daddy Grace Collection
Description: One audiocassette copied from a Harlequin LP (HQ 702) entitled A Night With Daddy Grace
featuring the Grace Heavenly Band and the Grace Emanuel Singers at a Daddy Grace
Movement meeting. Recorded in Harlem, New York City, on an unknown date. Donated by
Leo H. Berman, 1980. The collection includes six pages of correspondence, a log, and an
article about Bishop Charles Emanuel (Sweet Daddy) Grace.
Duration: 37 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20111


Title: Harry W. Bickel / Arthur and Ernest Smith Duplication Project
Description: Copied from a recording of Arthur and Ernest (Roy) Smith, Tennessee fiddlers, which was
recorded by the Messrs. Smith in 1960 for a Dr. Harris of Tennessee as a gift for his father.
Inclusive Years: 1960
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20166


Title: Jerome J. Bielinza / Folklore and History: An Approach in the Secondary School
Description: Thesis: Fairfield University
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: The Kenneth M. Bilby Jamaican Maroon Collection
Description: Traditional music of Jamaican Maroons (descendents of runaway slaves). Recordings of
" Jawbone," "Sa Leone," "Mandinga," "Tambu," "Prapa," and "Ibo" song and drumming genres,
which are a part of the ritual complex known as "Kromanti dance" or Kromanti play."
Includes music of the Kumina and Convince cults, drumming demonstrations,
processional music, and digging songs. Recorded in Jamaica in 1977 and 1978 by Ken Bilby.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
AFC Number: AFC 1983/008
AFS Number: AFS 21959-21987
Finding Aid: http://memory.loc.gov/service/afc/eadxmlafc/eadpdfafc/2002/af002001.pdf


Title: John Bird / "Percy Grainger and British Folk Music" Collection
Description: Lecture by John Bird of London, England, entitled "Percy Grainger and British Folk Music,"
with an introduction by Alan Jabbour; includes a question and answer session. Recorded
at the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress, April 6, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22609-22610


Title: Bjorngjeld Family Collection
Description: Two cassettes of instrumentals and songs by the Bjorngjeld family, recorded in Minnesota,
November 1986, and Columbus, North Dakota, 1956-60. The collection includes a two-page
list of sixty-three instrumentals and songs, eleven pages of notes, and an article about the
family. Bjorngjeld Family Reunion Band in concert at the Homestead Pickin Parlor [
Richfield, MN, November 22, 1986); and Dulono's, November 29, 1986), Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Selections recorded include country music, Scandinavian dance music,
bluegrass, gospel, and ballads [ recorded by Arthur J. Bjorngjeld?] Bjorngjeld Family
" homemade recordings": sample of records and tapes recorded at home [location unknown]
during the 1950s and 1960s. Musicians include Clarence Bjorngjeld (harmonica and
vocals), Ervin Bjorngjeld (tenor banjo), Alfred Bjorngjeld (piano accordian), Borghild Person
(guitar and vocals), Olga Hanson (mandolin and vocals).
Inclusive Years: 1956-1986
AFC Number: AFC 1987/005
AFS Number: AFS 24362-24363


Title: Lou Blachley / New Mexico Pioneer and Oral History
Description: New Mexico pioneer folklore and oral history recorded in early 1950s by Lou Blachley.
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14141-14154


Title: Robert A. Black / Pete Seeger Disc Collection
Description: One 10-inch disc of three songs related to farming sung by Pete Seeger of Beacon, New
York. Recorded at Dynamic Recording Studio in New York City, sometime during the 1940s.
Inclusive Years: c.1940s
Duration: 5 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22492


Title: Robert A. Black / Kentucky and Arkansas Folk Music Collection
Description: Songs and stories by various performers at the annual Mountain Folk Festival at Berea
College, Berea, Kentucky; and songs by Fred High of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Recorded by
Robert A. Black in Berea, Kentucky, April 6, 1957, and Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1958.
Inclusive Years: 1957-1958
Duration: 50 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22494-22495


Title: Robert A. Black Duplication Project
Description: Pueblo chants and music recorded 1957-1966 in Arizona and New Mexico by Robert A.
Black. Principally Hopi, with some Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni.
Inclusive Years: 1957-1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14059-14077


Title: Judith Blank / Black Children's Songs
Description: Two Negro children's songs: "200-De-O," performed by a group of girls at an unidentified
Massachusetts public school; and "Going Back to Texas," performed by a black boy at the
same school, spring 1977. Recorded by students of Judith Blank at Holy Cross College,
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19180


Title: Harold Blau / Onondaga Indian Music and Lore
Description: Nine 10-inch tapes of Onondaga songs and spoken word recorded in New York by Harold
Blau, 1956-66. The collection includes ten pages of correspondence, lists, and notes.
Also includes a Black Muslim song.
Inclusive Years: 1956-1966
Duration: 18 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1972/009
AFS Number: AFS 14653-14661


Title: Hope Cynthia Bliss / The Development of a Classification and Retrieval System to Aid
Teachers and Reseachers in Organizing Folksongs for Integration into the Elementary
School Curriculum
Description: Dissertation: University of Pennsylvania
Inclusive Years: 1981
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Howard Bloomfield and Harry Gilpar / Yiddish Songs
Description: Yiddish songs sung by Adele Weinrub, Zisl Nathan, Anna Kelman, and Anita Bonden.
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, by Howard Bloomfield and Henry Gilpar of UCLA
under the supervision of Wayland Hand, 1949.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10132-10137


Title: Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection
Description: Field survey of various aspects of traditional life, work, and expression along the Blue Ridge
Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia. Recorded by Thomas A. Adler, Lyntha Scott Eiler,
Terry Eiler, Carl Fleischhauer, Alan Jabbour, Geraldine Johnson, Richard McCamant,
Wallace Macnow, Howard W. Marshall, Patrick B. Mullen, Blanton Owen, Margaret Counts
Owen, and George Price, Jr., under the coordination of Charles K. Wolfe, in
August-September 1978. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National Park
Service. Collection includes substantial photographic and manuscript documentation;
also some video recording of dance. Includes children's games and hand-claps.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: AFC 1982/009
AFS Number: AFS 21363-21829
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/blueridge.html


Title: Blue Sky Boys Duplication Project
Description: Country vocal and instrumental music by the Blue Sky Boys: A. Bolick (mandolin), Earl
Bolick (guitar), Curly Parker (fiddle).
Inclusive Years: 1946-1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17971-17978


Title: The Blues: Living Legends and the Music of Oakland
Description: Locally produced special series aired on _The Channel 7 News_ , 6:00 p.m., Mon-Fri, the
week of February 29, 1989, San Francisco, California (aired again as 1/2 hour special March
18, 1989, 7:30 p.m.) KGO-TV sports anchor (and vocalist) Marc Gibson, interviews
well-known and local blues musicians about the Oakland blues scene from the 1940s to
the present. Edited and produced by John Turner, co-produced by Marc Gibson.
AFC Number: AFC 1989/008
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Harlan E. Bogie / Clare Alexander Bogie Wire Collection
Description: "Home recordings" of Mr. Clare Bogie and associates. Clare Bogie, a bandleader,
composer, award-winning fiddler, and pianist from Pontiac, Michigan, was recorded by his
grandson, Harlan E. Bogie. The wire recording was made in 1951, and features Clare
Bogie and others performing instrumentals, as well as gospel, Irish and popular songs.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: AFC 1995/032
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Marina Bokelman / Coon can game: A Blues Ballad Tradition
Description: M.A. Thesis, UCLA, 1968. Microfilm Number: 97/1103
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Eleanor Jean Bonar Collection of Songs from Iowa and Kentucky
Description: Four linear inches of manuscripts and typescripts of song texts, with some tunes, as well
as newspaper clippings containing song texts. Collected primarily in Iowa and Kentucky by
Eleanor Jean Bonar.

Manuscript collection comprising texts of ballads, folksongs, popular songs, and poetry
collected from family members (especially the Bonar-Batchelder family), friends, high
school students, and published sources. Many are from the Appalachian Region, some
songs were collected by Lona Counts at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, recorded from
oral tradition. Contributors from Iowa are the focus for the collection, as is shown on
Bonar's hand drawn map. Here, Bonar appears to have continued the work she began for her
master's thesis (1930). Most song texts date from 1930-1939, a scrapbook has clippings
dated 1894-1954 with articles from the popular press by or about other folksong collectors,
including John Jacob Niles, Jean Thomas, Helen Hartness Flanders, and George Korson,
plus articles on temperance songs. A few items are song texts in family papers dated
1853-1874, and there are musical transcriptions for tunes for some of the songs.

Also includes three pamphlets: "American Folk Lore Paul Bunyan Tales" / Charles E.
Brown (Madison, Wisc.: State Historical Museum, 1922); "Mountain Ballads for Social
Singing" / selected by James Watt Raine, music collected by Cecil J. Sharp (Berea, Ky.:
Berea College Press, 1923); and "Little Studies in American Music for Home Project
Groups and 4-H Girls' Clubs" / Fannie R. Buchanan (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State College
Extension Service, Nov. 1937).
Inclusive Years: 1853-1954, bulk 1930-1939
AFC Number: AFC 1971/001
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: Index to song titles; Index to contributers (print only)


Title: Charles Bond / Songs and Gospel Hymns from the Beech Mountain area of western North
Carolina
Description: Songs and gospel hymns sung from the Beech Mountain area of western North Carolina,
recorded Feb.-March 1971 by Charlie Bond.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15226-15227


Title: Bill Bonyan / Harry Garfield Duplication Project
Description: Maritime folklore and reminiscences by Harry Garfield, who served aboard a ship off the
southeast coast of Africa. Recorded with Bill Bonyan, place unknown, in 1954. The
collection also includes songs by Florida high school girls which describe their work in the
tobacco growing industry in Connecticut, recorded by Bill Bonyan in Manchester,
Connecticut, in the late 1950s.
Inclusive Years: 1954, and the late 1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20109-20110


Title: Daniel Boorstin Farewell Reception Collection
Description: Patsy Montana (guitar, vocals) with the Rhythm Ranch Band, consisting of Cathy Fink
(guitar, vocals), Marcy Marxer (mandolin, vocals), Pete Kennedy (electric guitar), Mike Stein
(fiddle), and Ralph Gordon (bass), perform country swing and western music in concert on
the Library of Congress Neptune Plaza at the Library's farewell reception for Librarian of
Congress Daniel Boorstin, September 10, 1987.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1987/028
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Mrs. D. A. Booth Singing "Death of my Brother"
Description: "Death of my Brother," sung by Mrs. D. A. Booth in Nashville, Tennessee, 1956.
Inclusive Years: 1956
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12358


Title: Songs Sung by Daniel B. Botkin, age 6
Description: Sung by Daniel B. Botkin (age 6) in Washington, D.C., November 20, 1943. Recorded by B.
A. Botkin and John Langenegger. List.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/009
AFS Number: AFS 7064-7065


Title: Benjamin A. Botkin Duplication Project
Description: White and Negro folk music and folklore recorded 1949 in North Carolina and South
Carolina by B. A. Botkin. Includes Artus Moser and Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Also air
checks of Foggy Mountain boys and church services.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14083-14086


Title: Benjamin A. Botkin Duplication Project
Description: 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. Includes Botkin's Western trip of 1950, Voice of
America folklore programs; air checks from ca. 1952-53 including a program honoring Carl
Sandburg's 75th birthday; and selections from Botkin's Southern trip of 1949. Keywords: Bascom
Lamar Lunsford; Sterling Brown.
Inclusive Years: 1949, 1950, 1952-1953
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14218-14221


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 20: Miscellaneous discs
Description: Twenty-two 10-inch discs of music recorded by Laura Boulton in various parts of the world,
1949-61. Boulton's demonstration recordings for a class at University of California at Los
Angeles. Includes American Indian, Mexican, Polynesian, Japanese, Arabic, Ecuadorian,
Peruvian folk music. Also includes European classical music for organ and chamber
orchestra.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17155-17176


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 19: Folk Music, Haiti
Description: Folk music performed by Laura Boulton in Haiti in 1947. Includes voodoo performances.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17135-17154


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 18: Unidentified American Indian Music
Description: Unidentified American Indian music recorded by Laura Boulton on the Hood River, Oregon,
in 1947.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17129-17134


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 17: Unidentified American Indians
Description: Four 10-inch discs of twenty-two songs sung by American Indians of the Nez Perce,
Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakima communities. Recorded in Pendleton, Oregon, by
Laura Boulton, 1946.
Inclusive Years: 1946
Duration: 41 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17125-17128


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 16: Eskimo Songs
Description: Ten 10-inch discs of Eskimo dance songs, some with drum accompaniment, and songs of
the Messenger Feast, recorded in Point Barrow, Alaska, by Laura Boulton, October 11-17,
1946. The collection includes eighteen pages of explanations of songs, notes, and some
textual transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1946
Duration: 3 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17115-17124


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 11: Music of the Peoples of Canada
Description: Three hundred eighteen 10-inch discs of instrumentals and songs recorded in British
Columbia, Illinois, Manitoba, Minnesota, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and
Quebec by Laura Boulton, 1941-42, for the National Film Board of Canada. The collection
includes three linear inches of notes. Includes several Indian, Eskimo and immigrant
groups, especailly French-Canadian, Anglo Irish, Scottish (including Gaelic), and Polish.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16336-16653


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 1: Negro Folklore
Description: Negro Folklore. Recorded 1935-37 by Walter Garwick in Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama.
Inclusive Years: 1935-1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15667-16726


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 23: Africa, Europe, Far East, Latin America, etc.
Description: Three-hundred and forty-four 7-inch tapes, twenty-two 5-inch tapes and one 3-inch tape of
instrumentals and songs recorded in Africa, Europe, Far East, Latin America, Middle East,
Near East, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia by Laura Boulton, 1949-61.
The collection includes one-third linear inch of articles, correspondence, and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1949-1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18102-18468


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 4: California Indian Music
Description: California Indian Music. Copied from cylinders recorded 1904-1908 by Charles F. Lummis of
the Southwest Museum.
Inclusive Years: 1904-1908
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15853-15858


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 9
Description: Recorded primarily in New Mexico among the Navajo, Hopi, Winnebago, Mescalero, Sioux
and Jemez Pueblo Indians in 1933 by Laura Boulton.
Inclusive Years: 1933
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16152-16277


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 21: Appendix to Part 11 (Canada)
Description: Appendix to Part 11 (Music of the Peoples of Canada). Ethnicities include French,
Gaelic-Scots, Ukrainian, Greek, and Tsimsian Indian recorded in or about dances, church
services (including Christmas), storytelling, potlaches, speechmaking, carol singing, etc.
Instruments of special importance include violins and bells.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17177-17194


Title: Laura Boulton / Byzantine & "Rainess" Collection
Description: The Byzantine portion of this collection is sponsored by Harvard University's Center for
Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C. The collection contains 70
audiotapes and one audiotape list supplied by the donor. The audiotape list does not
include an alternate numerical sequence used on the tape boxes, and it omits one
audiotape. A content list is with the collection.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1969
AFC Number: AFC 1995/037
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 12: Music of Mexico
Description: Forty-five 10-inch discs of vocal and instrumental music recorded by Laura Boulton in
various parts of Mexico, 1940. Acquired on exchange from Columbia University. Features
voice, guitar, drum, flute, reed instruments, etc.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16654-16698


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 2: North Carolina Collection
Description: North Carolina Collection. Recorded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in 1935.
Inclusive Years: 1935
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15727-15820


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 8: French West Africa
Description: Recorded 1934 in French West Africa by Laura Boulton.
Inclusive Years: 1934
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15880-16151


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 14: Miscellaneous speech samples and narratives
Description: Miscellaneous speech samples and narratives. Many dubbed from commercial recordings.
Areas represented are Africa (Sierre Leone, Uganda), North American Indian (Chilcat,
Dakota [ Sioux], Karok, Nez Perce, Onandaga, Oneida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian).
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16845-16957


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 13: Apache, cocapah, Fox, Hopi, Mohave, Navajo, Pima and
Zuni
Description: Apache, Cocapah, Fox, Hopi, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, and Zuni Indian songs with drum
rattle, bell and Jew's harp accompaniment, recorded by Laura Boulton in 1940.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16699-16844


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 3: Pennsylvania Folklore
Description: Pennsylvania Folklore. Recorded May 1935 at the First Annual Pennsylvania Folk Festival,
Allentown, Pennsylvania (organized by George Korson), by George Hibbit and Walter
Garwick.
Inclusive Years: 1935
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15821-15852


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 15: Miscellaneous from U.S.
Description: Fifteen 10-inch discs of instrumentals and songs, including examples from
African-American, Mexican, Polish, and Ukrainian traditions, recorded at various locations
in the United States. Recorded by Laura Boulton, 1941-42, for the National Film Board of
Canada. The collection includes two linear inches of notes. Includes spirituals some of
which are sung by the "Yellow Pocahantas" group of New Orleans, Louisiana.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16958-16972


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 6: Angolan Tribal Music
Description: Angolan Tribal Music. Copies from cylinders recorded by Laura Boulton in 1931.
Inclusive Years: 1931
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15861-15870


Title: Laura Boulton Collection Part 10: Music of the West Indies
Description: Fifty-eight 10-inch discs of instrumentals, songs and stories recorded in the Bahamas,
Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Martinique, by Laura Boulton, 1938. The
collection includes three-quarters of a linear inch of correspondence, description, and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16278-16335


Title: The Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection
Description: Traditional folk, art, and popular music of Morocco. Recorded by Paul Bowles. The
collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, and accompanying documentation
that focus primarily on one recording project. Also included is dance music, secular music,
music for Ramadan and other Islamic rites, and music for animistic rituals. Also includes
Hebrew material.
Inclusive Years: 1959-62
AFC Number: AFC 1960/001
AFS Number: AFS 11623-11687; 12016-12020
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/paulbowles.html


Title: Lasserre Bradley / Primitive Baptist Music of North Carolina and Kentucky
Description: Primitive Baptist music recorded at various congregations in North Carolina and Kentucky
by Lasserre Bradley, Jr., Baptist Bible Hour Broadcast, Cincinnati, 1961-71.
Inclusive Years: 1961-1971
Duration: 43 min.; 49 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17495-17501


Title: Elaine Bradtke / Molly Dancing and the Seven Champions: Postmodernism and the
Re-Invention of Tradition
Description: Dissertation: University of Maryland
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Michelle Branigan / Piedmont Folksong Project: Little Union Baptist Church Watch Night
Service Videotape Collection
Description: This is a videotape of a Watch Night service taped at the Litle Union Baptist Church
[Charlottesville, Virginia area?] on December 31, 1992, by Michelle Branigan. It is a
documentary on the religious song traditions of Cumberland and Amelia counties in
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1996/020
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Elaine C. Breach / Subject access to Ethnic Folk, and National Music Manuscript
Description: Masters thesis in Music History and Literature and Library and Information Science, U.
Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1985.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/001
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Dorothy Brennan Doyle Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of folk music from around the world, sung by Dorothy Brennan Doyle.
These songs were learned when she was with the group “The Consort” under the
leadership of Prof. Roy Mitchell from 1934-1941 at New York University. “The Consort”
performed international songs, drawing on their contacts with recent New York City
immigrants. Recorded at an unknown location by Dorothy Brennan Doyle, circa 1993. The
collection includes two and a half linear inches of phonetic lyrics to the recorded songs,
correspondence, scripts of folk radio music broadcasts, one black-and-white photo print,
and other photocopied images.
Inclusive Years: c.1934-1993
Duration: 2 hrs. 22 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 2000/016
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Brevard County, Florida Oral History Project, 1992
Description: The Brevard County Oral History Video Project, under the direction of Nancy Yasecko of
Vanguard Productions of Merritt Island, Florida, documented and preserved the regional,
occupational, and ethnic heritage of Brevard County, Florida, through videotaped interviews
of long-time residents. The interviews are with a variety of individuals who through personal
reminiscence bring life to the history of Brevard County, spanning a range of time and
subjects from "Old Florida to the Space Age." Interviews are with a publisher, a space
industry worker, a bookkeeper, a doctor's daughter, a postman, a cattleman, a courthouse
worker, a developer's daughter, a fisherman's daughter, and a school teacher.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1995/034
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Vaughn and Kay Brewer Ozark Mountain Collection
Description: Ballad and shape note singing, tales, supersititons, civil war oral history, craft description
(fiddle making, whiskey making), concert w/ Folklore Society and Jimmie Driftwood teaching
5 folklore classes at E. Tennessee State Univ.
AFC Number: AFC 1980/007
AFS Number: AFS 25768-25807


Title: Brierfield Ironworks / Alabama Fiddlers Collection
Description: Alabama old-time fiddlers perform tunes for collector Joyce Cauthen, who planned to use
selections of the material for an LP. Various accompanists. Sponsored by Brierfield
Ironworks park with additional funding from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Project
Director: Joyce Cauthen. Folklorist: Joey Brackner. Record album produced from tapes
_Possum up a Gum Stum: Home, Field, and Commercial Recordings of Alabama Fiddlers
Past and Present_, 1988. Side 2 includes field recordings. Originals at the Department of
Manuscripts and Archives of the Birmingham Public Library.
AFC Number: AFC 1988/015
AFS Number: AFS 26177-26200


Title: Joe Broadman / Bob Dylan Studio Session Collection
Description: The collection consists of a tape recording containing 25 songs performed in May 1961 in
Minneapolis by Bob Dylan. Twenty-three of the songs are traditional folksongs or Woody
Guthrie compositions; two are early Dylan compositions.
Inclusive Years: 1961
AFC Number: AFC 1992/004
AFS Number:


Title: David Brose / Ward Jarvis Recordings
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals and stories performed on banjo and fiddle and spoken by
Ward Jarvis. Recorded in Stewart, Ohio, by David A. Brose, April 30, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 1 hr. 15 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19386


Title: David Brose / Ward Jarvis Project, Part 1
Description: Five 10-inch tapes of an interview with and banjo and fiddle instrumentals played by Ward
Jarvis of Braxton County, West Virginia. Recorded in Stewart, Ohio, by David A. Brose,
December 12, 1978 June 26, 1979. The collection includes twenty-four pages of logs.
Inclusive Years: 1978-1979
Duration: 10 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22063-22067


Title: David Brose / Harvey Phelps Video Collection
Description: Three videocassettes of commentary, instrumentals, and songs spoken and performed with
banjo by Harvey Phelps. Includes an interview with Phelphs. Recorded in Delaware, Ohio,
by David A. Brose, Jack Shortlidge, and Gary L. Walker (camera), April 23, 1984.
Inclusive Years: 1983
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: AFC 1984/010
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Saul Broudy / American Serviceman's Songs from Vietnam War
Description: One 10-inch tape of American servicemen's songs from the Vietnam War, recorded
primarily at an aviation unit commanders' conference in Nha Trang, Vietnam, April 1967.
The collection includes a 70-page M.A. thesis entitled "GI Folklore in Viet-Nam" by Saul
Broudy that includes extensive song transcriptions from this collection.
Inclusive Years: c.1962
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17970


Title: Sterling Brown and Lewis Jones Recordings
Description: Records made by Sterling Brown of Howard University and Lewis Jones of Fisk University,
consisting of personal narratives by a Negro barber in Nashville, Tennessee, and throw
valuable light on Southern life and lore, especially as they involve race relations.
AFC Number: AFC 1945/009
AFS Number: AFS 7602-7610


Title: Tom Brown and Dwight Diller / Hammons Family Collection
Description: Twenty 10-inch tapes of instrumentals, songs, and stories performed and spoken by
William Moses "Mose" Coffman of Greenbrier County, West Virginia; the Hammons family of
Pocahontas County, West Virginia; Tommy Hal Hunter of Mars Hill, North Carolina; and
Dellie C. Norton of Marshall, North Carolina. Recorded in West Virginia by Dwight Diller,
Patrick Gainer, and Bill Hicks, July 1969 October 1970, and in North Carolina by Bill Hicks.
The collection includes one and one-fourth linear inches of correspondence and logs.
Includes ballads, clogging, instrumental music, interviews, songs and stories. Copied from
duplicates of Diller's recordings made by Tom Brown of West Virginia University and Carl
Fleischhauer of the American Folklife Center, and loaned by Tom Brown.
Inclusive Years: 1969-1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22948-22967


Title: Tom Brown / "Appalachian Folk Music" Collection
Description: One 5-inch tape of instrumentals and songs performed with banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica,
and plucked dulcimer by school children (K-8) of Webster County, West Virginia, involved
in an Appalachian folk music class. Recorded by Tom Brown, May 1976 May 13, 1980. The
collection includes six pages of correspondence and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1976-1980
Duration: 23 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22469


Title: Ray B. Browne / Alabama Folk Songs
Description: Ph.D. Dissertation: University of California, Los Angeles
Inclusive Years: 1956
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Joseph Bruchac / Native American Storytelling
Description: Performance sponsored by the American Folklife Center of Joseph Bruchac titled "Native
American Storytelling." November 17, 1994.
Inclusive Years: 1994
Duration: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1994/009
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Peter Buchan / Secret Songs of Silence: Chiefly Scottish, Ancient and Unpublished from
the Recitation of Very Old People
Description: Harvard University Library, 1832. Microfilm Number: 97/1104
Inclusive Years: 1832
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Steven C. Budlong / "See You in Hell, Blind Boy" Video Collection
Description: The video includes a February 2, 1995, interview by George Pratt with Mississippi bluesman
Jack Owens for use in defining the fictional character of Blind Boy in a book in progress by
Budlong and Pratt to be entitled See You in Hell, Blind Boy.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/029
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Richard E. Buehler / An Annotated Collection of Contemporary Obscene Humor
Description: M.A. Thesis, Indiana University, 1964. Microfilm Number: 97/1105
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Major A. Buenaventura / Philippines Recordings
Description: Recording of folk songs of the Philippines, made by Major Buenaventura.
Inclusive Years: 1949
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9433


Title: Mary Elizabeth Buford / Folk Songs of Florida and Texas
Description: Thesis
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Bureau of American Ethnology Transfers / American Indian Recordings
Description: American Indian recordings from the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian. Includes
copies of 110 discs of Mission Indians recorded by John P. Harrington, 1930-1941; 12
discs of Aleut Indians recorded by John P. Harrington; 4 discs of Cherokee Indian material;
6 discs of Chumash Indian material (California), recorded by George Henley, 1912-1914;
and 1 disc of Hopi Indian dance chants dubbed from Victor 20043.
Inclusive Years: 1930-1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15403-15423


Title: Amos Burg / Alaska Recordings
Description: Twenty-six 12-inch discs of accordion performances, interviews, narratives, a recitation,
and songs, recorded in various locations in Alaska by Amos Burg, 1941. Annotations are
largely based on a "Survey and Spot Analysis" compiled by Samuel V. Wilson (1992).
Duration: 4 hours, ten min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6328-6353


Title: Natalie Curtis Burlin Native American Song Manuscript Collection
Description: Musical scores and notes for Natalie Curtis Burlin's "Indian's Book." Score and essay for
" Dawn Song" by Natalie Curtis Burlin. Native American songs and scores (manuscripts).
Original music scores and 2 pages of an essay by Burlin are in fragile condition. Photocopy
of essay accompanying "Dawn Song" included in collection file and with collection.
AFC Number: AFC 1957/001
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Martin W. Burman / Political Song Performance Styles of the Old and New Left
Description: Thesis: Wesleyan University
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Deborah Burns / Weaver's Mennonite Church Recordings
Description: Shape note, Harmonia Sacra, religious choral singing recorded January 1, 1974 at
Weaver's Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, by Deborah Burns.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18707-18710


Title: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded by Amanda M. Burt in Reykjavik, Iceland, 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14630


Title: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folksongs
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded 1968 and 1973 by Hallfredus Orn Eiriksson and Amanda M.
Burt.
Inclusive Years: 1968 and 1973
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15609-15610


Title: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded 1974 by Amanda Burt.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17025-17026


Title: Amanda Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
Description: Icelandic folk music recorded and duplicated by Amanda M. Burt, 1972.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15100-15101


Title: Smokey Butler / Texas Fiddle Tunes Collection
Description: The collection includes a glossy photograph, two articles, and two audiocassettes relating
to the musical talent of Smokey Butler. Butler is an old-time fiddler from Texas competes
in national fiddling competitions. The articles offer insight as to Butler's musical
background and his contemporary fiddling activities. The audiocassettes contain 81 tunes
in which Smokey Butler plays fiddle, Mary Butler and Bryan Jimmerson play guitar, and
Charles Gardner plays bass fiddle. A list of the tunes on the audiocassettes is included.
Duration: 1 hr.
AFC Number: AFC 1998/008
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Senator Robert C. Byrd West Virginia Fiddle Recordings Collection, Part II
Description: Sixteen 10-inch and four 7-inch tapes of songs performed with fiddle by Senator Robert C.
Byrd of Sophia, West Virginia. Recorded at the Library of Congress by Carl Fleischhauer,
John E. Howell, and Alan Jabbour, December 14, 1977, and January 4, 1978. The last four
tapes contain selections taken from the previous sixteen tapes. The collection includes a
thirty-two page list.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
Duration: 9 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19314-19333


Title: Senator Robert C. Byrd West Virginia Fiddle Recordings Collection, Part I
Description: Appalachian country music played on the fiddle by Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia,
recorded by Alan Jabbour and Carl Fleischhauer at the Senator's home in McLean,
Virginia, July 4-6, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19290-19313

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Title: Ruth Cade / Music of Afghanistan
Description: Music of Afghanistan.
Inclusive Years: 1954
Duration: 40 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10872


Title: Charles Wakefield Cadman / Omaha and Winnebago Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape copied from cylinders of Omaha and Winnebago songs and flute pieces
recorded by Charles Wakefield Cadman in the summer of 1909 in Thurston County,
Nebraska.
Inclusive Years: 1909
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21255


Title: L.H. Caldwell Pennsylvania Dutch Songs
Description: One 7-inch tape of Kansas and Pennsylvania German family lore and six songs sung and
spoken by L. Harold Caldwelll of Wichita, Kansas. Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the
Library of Congress by Gerald E. Parsons, December 22, 1975. The collection includes
one-quarter linear inch of a bibliography, correspondence, and notes. Includes "Chingly
Chan" songs.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18732


Title: Foister Caldwell Recording Project
Description: Foister and Nancy Caldwell of Roark, Leslie County, Kentucky, singing gospel songs and
hymns at the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, July 9, 1973, recorded by Alan
Jabbour and Robert Carneal. Keyword: Pentecostal Holiness.
Inclusive Years: 1973
Duration: 45:54
AFC Number: AFC 1973/018
AFS Number: AFS 15608


Title: California and Tennessee Recordings
Description: Six 7-inch tapes of Anglo American ballads, songs, and tales recorded in Tennessee by
Jerome Wenker, 1961; songs sung in Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Spanish
recorded in California by Norine Dresser, Spring 1970; and German instrumentals and
songs recorded in California by Eileen Marrison, 1971. The collection includes six pages of
lists and was obtained from the Archive of California and Western Folklore at the University
of California Los Angeles.
Inclusive Years: 1961, 1970, 1971
Duration: 1 hr. so far
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18074-18079


Title: Cleve Callison / Sacred Harp Singers Radio Program Collection
Description: Radio broadcast on Sacred Harp singing produced and hosted by Cleve Callison; includes
interviews with singers Buell Cobb, Carl Hughes, Hugh McGraw, Lisa Wooten, and Mac
Wooten. Recorded at the Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen, Georgia, date
unknown.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22607


Title: Henry Baxley 1963 National Championship Country Music Contest Collection
Description: Finals of the 1963 National Championships Country Music Contest held August 3-4, 1963,
at Lake Whipporwill, Warrenton, Virginia, and sponsored and conducted by the
Warrenton-Fauquier Jaycees. Chairman of the contest: Henry Baxley. Master of
Ceremonies: Eddie Matherly (disc jockey, WKCW radio, Warrenton); recorded by Sonny
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: AFC 1987/029
AFS Number:


Title: Arthur L. Campa / Spanish Folk Songs
Description: 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. Univ. of New Mexico Recording project. List
in project file.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1950
Duration: 4 hrs. 15 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1950/002
AFS Number: AFS 9629-9658


Title: Don D. Campbell / Curly King and the Tennessee Hilltoppers Collection, Part 2
Description: WCYB "Farm and Fun Time: radio broadcasts from Bristol, Tennessee, featuring Curly King
and the Tennessee Hilltoppers, recorded 1948-1952.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1952
AFC Number: AFC 1988/007
AFS Number: AFS 26816-26819


Title: Don D. Campbell / Curly King and the Tennessee Hilltoppers Collection, Part 1
Description: WCYB, Bristol, Tennessee, Farm & Fun Time radio programs, featuring Curly King & the
Tennessee Hilltoppers; recorded c. 1947-1949. Shows were 15 min. in length, and
broadcast times varied (listed on concordance when known). Band members may have
varied; included Curley King, Don Campbell, Shorty Morris, Roy Russell, Pappy Leslie
Keith, Cousin Zeke. Contents contain performances of songs, hymns, and instrumental
tunes, insterspersed with live commercials (Thrift Supply Co. and Roanoke City Mills).
Instruments: guitar, fiddle, bass, steel guitar, mandolin. Programs begin and end with line
or two of song, often "Carry Me Back to Tennessee."
Inclusive Years: c.1947-1949
AFC Number: AFC 1984/002
AFS Number: AFS 27066-27071


Title: Jimmy Campbell Duplication Project
Description: One 10-inch tape of twenty-four fiddle tunes and other folk songs performed by Jimmy
Campbell and the Boys. Recorded in Dolan, Indiana, by Wilson Allen, Joseph C.
Hickerson, Judy B. McCulloh, and Joe Wysong, February 7, 1962. The collection includes
two pages of descriptions and song lists.
Inclusive Years: 1962
Duration: 1 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17021


Title: Lyle D. Campbell / Campbell Family Songfest Manuscript Collection
Description: Eleven song transcriptions (twenty-two manuscript pages) collected at Campbell family
songfests in Nelson County, Virginia, 1882-1890s.
Inclusive Years: 1882-1890s
AFC Number: AFC 1989/017
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Ramir Cardenas Recording Project
Description: Interview with Ramiro Cardenas, DDS, and Mrs. Cardenas. In 1934, Dr. Cardenas and his
brother Ricardo were recorded by John A. Lomax in San Antonio, Texas. Their singing of
Mexican American songs with guitar appears on AFS 1. Recorded at the Library of
Congress, July 7, 1982, by Gerald E. Parsons, Jr., and Peter T. Bartis.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22154


Title: Karen Cardullo / Interviews Regarding Ruth Crawford Seeger Collection
Description: Interviews conducted with Charles Seeger, Archie Green, Mike Seeger, Bess Lomax Hawes,
Pete Seeger, and Elizabeth Cotten about the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeger,
particularly her work with folk music. Also misc. recordings of Ruth Crawford Seeger
duplicated for Cardullo by Mike Seeger, and readings from R.C. Seeger's diaries and letters.
One cassette (cassette 13) of Charles Seeger's 1978 Library of Congress Elson Lecture.
Interviews relate to Cardullo's 1980 Master of Arts thesis, George Washington Univ., about
Ruth Crawford Seeger.
Inclusive Years: 1975-1979
AFC Number: AFC 1988/008
AFS Number: AFS 26201-26212


Title: George Carey / Interviews and Narratives from Maryland and Virginia
Description: Tapes containing over two hundred interviews, narratives, and oral histories recorded on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1968 by George G. Carey.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: AFC 1973/011
AFS Number: AFS 15587-15592


Title: George Carey / Narratives and Songs from the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Description: Four 10-inch tapes of songs and stories recorded on the Eastern Shore of Maryland by
George G. Carey, July-August 1967 and February 1968. The collection includes seventeen
pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1967-1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13154-13157


Title: George Carey / 101st Airborne Division Cadence Chants
Description: Cadence Chants of the 101st Airborne Division. Recorded at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, April
1961, by George G. Carey.
Inclusive Years: 1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14605


Title: Bob Carlin Our Musical Heritage Collection
Description: Copies of a series of radio broadcasts of various ethnic musics and effects on the
development of music in the United States. Most selections taken from the holdings of the
Archive of Folk Culture. Produced and hosted by Bob Carlin for station WHYY-FM,
Philadelphia. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
AFC Number: AFC 1986/002
AFS Number: AFS 24278-24284


Title: Irene Jones Carlisle / Fifty Ballads and Songs from Northwest Arkansas
Description: Thesis: Texas Christan University
Inclusive Years: 1952
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Jim Carroll and Pat MacKenzie / Irish Travellers Collection
Description: Selected songs and stories by Irish travellers. Recorded by Jim Carroll and Pat MacKenzie
at campsites in and near London in 1975 and subsequently. Original collection located in
British Institute of Recorded Sound.
Inclusive Years: 1975 and later
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22470-22471


Title: William Carter / Traditional Jazz Collection
Description: 4 CDs comprising interviews with the jazz pianist Sid LaProtti, 1 copy of Carter's book
_Preservation Hall_ (including an interview with Alan Lomax), 1 copy of _Jazz on the
Barbary Coast_ by Tom Stoddard (utilizing the LaProtti interviews), and a copy of the spring
1999 issue of _Frisco Cricket_ containing an article by Carter.
AFC Number: AFC 1999/017
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Carter Inaugural Concert Duplication Project, Part 1.
Description: Recordings of Smithsonian Institution-sponsored events celebrating the inauguration of
President Jimmy Carter. Recorded at the Visitors Center, Washington, D.C., January 1977.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20260-20266


Title: Carter Inaugural Concert Collection, Part 2
Description: Songs by Lydia Mendoza, Jimmie Driftwood, and the Beau Soleil Cajun Band at a
Smithsonian-sponsored concert celebrating the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter.
Recorded by Richard Derbyshire at the Visitors Center, Union Station, Washington, D.C.,
January 21, 1977.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22947


Title: Isabel Gordon Carter Collection
Description: Collection of correspondence and photographs to Isabel Gordon Carter regarding her
research and publications on Appalachian ballads and folktales. Correspondents include
E. A. Bishop, Horace Kephart, I. K. Stearns, Nelly L. Brooks, Amabel Williams-Ellis,
Richard Chase, Kay Chase, Maud Gentry Long, and Robert B. Bean. Included as
enclosures are typescript copies, ca. 1920s, of two letters from Wm. Payne of Pierceville,
Ga., one to "Ritcherde" Jan. 13, 1902; and one to "Bill" Mar. 25, 1903. E. A. Bishop
enclosed texts for two ballads, "Jonah and the whale," and "Little Mohea" (1921) and Nelly L.
Brooks sent the text to "I'm as free a little bird as I can be" (1924). Included are two letters
from Carter to Richard Chase (1938-1939) and letters and copies of printed materials from
Inclusive Years: ca. 1902-1940
AFC Number: AFC 2005/004
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Laurence Carton / Gettysburg Song Collection
Description: "Gettysburg O' Gettysburg," written by Leah Carp Kirssin and performed by the author's son,
Harold Bernard Kirssin, accompanying himself on electronic piano. Recorded by Laurence
Carton, Miami, Florida, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24117


Title: Cary Library / Oral History Project -- Madawaska, Maine
Description: Six cassettes of oral history recorded in Aroostook County by staff of the Cary Library,
Houlton, Maine, 1972-73. The collection includes a six-page general index and information
concerning boats and boatbuilding with reference to ferries and flangers. Interviews of
Raymond Daigle (age 72), Tom Dufour (89), Mrs. Xavier Dufour (82), Felix Dufour (88).
Subjects include schools, home remedies, childbirth at home, maple syrup making,
lumbering, Acadian expulsion, story of the Fort Kent Trust Company, ferries.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17007-17012


Title: Mike Casey and David DiGiuseppe audition tape
Description: Mike and David perform Irish and Scottish Celtic music and stories and trace their
emigration to the American South. Mike plays Irish flute, lap-dulcimer, and guitar and tells
stories; David plays accordion, mandolin, cittern, and sings. Musical examples on the
cassette are: "1) Reels: The Golden Keyboard/MaryMcMahon 2) Song: The Queen of the Sky
3) Air: Squire Wood's Lamentation 4) Song: Windmills 5) French Musette: Les Hauts et Les
Bas 6) Story and Tune: The Fairies Hornpipe 7) Song: Blackjack Davy 8) Humors of
Ballymore."
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/024
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Nancy A. Cassell / Clifty Falls State Park Folk Art Project Journal
Description: Fieldwork journal. Fieldnotes. Clifty Falls State Park, Madison, Indiana.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: AFC 1980/016
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Ruth Feuer Caulk Settlement Schools
Description: Two hundred sixty-six manuscript pages concerning international folk dance. Donated by
Robert Caulk of Silver Spring, Maryland, whose mother, Ruth Feuer Caulk, collected the
materials in connection with her work at settlement schools in New York City in the 1930s
and 1940s. The collection includes an article and two pamphlets.
Inclusive Years: 1930-194?
AFC Number: AFC 1991/019
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Norman Cazden / Catskill Folk Festival Collection, Part 3
Description: Recordings made at the 1979 Catskill Folk Festival, Andes, New York, August 11-12, 1979.
Included are children's songs and stories, Scottish songs and instrumental selections,
gospel music, fiddle tunes, and square dance music and calls. Pete Seeger sings several
selections, with banjo and guitar.
Inclusive Years: 1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20521-20523


Title: Norman Cazden / Monadnock Duplication Project
Description: Squares, contras, and tunes recorded at Monadnock Country Club, Petersborough, New
Hampshire, by Norman Cazden, July 25, 1969. Also includes a fiddler from Massachusetts.
Inclusive Years: 1969
Duration: 70 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14575


Title: Norman Cazden / Catskill Folk Festival 1978
Description: The Catskill Folk Festival 1978, Andes, New York, August 12-13, 1978. Recorded by
Norman Cazden.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19392-19396


Title: Norman Cazden Catskill Recordings
Description: Four 10-inch tapes of one hundred ninety-two instrumentals, songs, and square dance calls
performed by George Edwards, Grant Rogers, Ernie Sager, and Mike Todd. Recorded
mostly in the Catskill area of New York by Norman Cazden and others from Camp
Woodland, Phoenicia, New York, 1945-61. The collection includes one-eighth linear inch
of correspondence, logs, and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1945-1961
Duration: 8 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12309-12312


Title: Norman Cazden / Catskill Folk Festival, 1977
Description: Recordings from the state of the 1977 Catskill Folk Festival at Andes, New York. Songs,
ballads, stories and instrumental music (performed on fiddle, harmonica, Scottish
bagpipes, banjo, guitar, and hurdy-gurdy) by Grant Rogers, Pete Seeger, Norman Studer,
Sonya Malkine, Joel Shimberg, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19250-19252


Title: Center for Popular Music / Roots of American Popular Music
Description: Collected field recordings of John Work III, including black folk music recorded in the South
1935-1942; interviews with Paul Oliver, Alan Lomax and others; and readings from Work's
writings. Includes an article on the field recordings of John Work III by Bruce Nemerov.
AFC Number: AFC 1989/010
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Center for Southern Folklore, William Ferris and Judy Peiser / Chapman Family Recordings
Description: Folk religious observances and beliefs of one black family, the Chapmans, of Centerville,
Mississippi. Recorded by Bill Ferris and Judy Peiser of the Center for Southern Folklore
between 1972 and 1974. Includes recordings of house meetings, gospel and spiritual
singing, bible reading, sermons, testifying, healing and so forth.
Inclusive Years: 1972-1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19085-19099


Title: C.H. Cha / Chinese Ch'in Recordings
Description: Flute and lute (ch'in) pieces played by Mr. C. H. Cha, of Soochow, China. Recorded at the
Library of Congress in the Recording Laboratory, October 16, 1945.
Inclusive Years: 1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13120-13124


Title: William W. Chamberlain / Folk Music in the Kentucky Barrens
Description: M.A. Thesis, Leland Stanford University, 1940. Microfilm Number: 97/1106
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Alan Chartock / Pete Seeger Interview Collection
Description: Interview of Pete Seeger made by Alan Chartock for WAMC radio in 2003.
Inclusive Years: 2003
AFC Number: AFC 2003/014
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Richard Chase Recordings
Description: Discs recorded in Virginia by Richard Chase in 1939.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3424-3432


Title: Richard Chase Collection
Description: Ballads, songs, shape note singing and narrative (Jack tales) recorded in 1930s and 1940s
by Richard Chase in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
Inclusive Years: 1930s-1940s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18872-18873


Title: Check-list of recorded songs in the English language in the Archive of American Folk Song
to July, 1940
Description: Three volumes which comprise the checklist of folksongs in the Archive of Folk Song up to
1940. Volume 1 contains songs whose titles start with the letters A-K. Volume 2 includes
titles from L-Z. Volume 3 is the geographical index. These are bound, typed lists, dated
Inclusive Years: 1935-1940
AFC Number: AFC 1942/001
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Cheres Ukranian Ensemble / "From the Mountains to the Steppe"
Description: Sound recording of the Cheres Ukrainian Ensemble titled "From the Mountains to the
Steppe: Village Music of the Ukraine."
Inclusive Years: 1998
AFC Number: AFC 1998/012
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Cheres Ukrainian Ensemble / Demonstration Tape Collection
Description: One audiocassette of seven instrumentals and three songs performed on the clarinet,
drymba (Jew’s harp), fiddle, sopilka (end-blown flute), svyril (panpipes), electronically
generated trembita (alpenhorn-like instrument), and tsymbly (hammered dulcimer) by the
Cheres Ukrainian Instrumental Ensemble. Recorded in New York City by Andriy Milavsky,
1990 and 1994. See also: AFC 2000/015.
Inclusive Years: 1990s
Duration: 32 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1996/035
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
Description: Ninety-nine 7-inch tapes and 245 audiocassettes,13 linear inches of contact sheets, eight
and three-fourths linear feet of field notes and logs, 3080 slides, 210 photographs, and 2
videos from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection, a field survey of ethnic artistic
expression including dance, foodways, neighborhood gatherings, religious celebrations,
and instrumental and vocal music. Recorded in the Chicago, Illinois, area by various
collectors under the direction of Elena Bradunas, February-November 1977; under the joint
sponsorship of the American Folklife Center and the Illinois Arts Council. The collection
includes a 561-page report on the project published by the American Folklife Center in
January 1978. Key subjects: communities activities; dance-performance, social, and folk;
foodways; music--instrumental and vocal; religious celebrations; textile arts; and wood
carving.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: AFC 1981/004
AFS Number: AFS 20524-20867
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/chicago.html


Title: Chickamauga Elementary School Collection
Description: A collection of local and community history and folklore of Chickamauga, Georgia,
compiled by students of the Chickamauga Elementary School. Titles of volumes are:
Reflections of Our Past [and] Butter Making.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1979
Duration: 2 hrs.
AFC Number: AFC 1979/004
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Chiraj Productions / Verde Amarelo Band Cassette
Description: This is a demonstration tape made by two members of the Verde Amarelo Band from Brazil.
The band plays jazz-influenced sambas, traditional and contemporary tunes. Instruments
include guitar, bass, percussion, keyboards, mandolin, and saxophones.
Inclusive Years: 1990s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/014
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Chocolate Mousse Titanic: Tragedy and Culture: A Lecture by Michael McCaughan, October
12, 1990
Description: Michael McCaughan, Curator of Maritime History and Traditions at the Ulster Folk and
Transport Museum, Cultra, Northern Ireland, discusses the depiction of the Titanic in
popular culture and explores the oceanliner's enduring fascination.
Inclusive Years: 1990
AFC Number: AFC 1990/035
AFS Number:


Title: R.P. Christeson / Harvey Thompson and Jehile Kirkhuff Recordings
Description: 6 cassette tapes are fiddle tunes played by Jehile Kirkhuff, near Rush, Pennsylvania. The
7-inch reel of tape is made up of fiddle tunes played by Harvey Thompson, near Brogue,
Pennsylvania. Recorded by Robert P. Christeson, 1970.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14273-14279


Title: Neil G. Christian Songs and Interview
Description: Two 7-inch tapes of an interview and songs sung with harp-guitar by Neil G. Christian.
Recorded at radio station KSJN, St. Paul, Minnesota, by Maury Bernstein and Richard K.
Spottswood, January 1, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 1 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18802-18803


Title: Michael Chyet Lecture
Description: Documentation of the lecture by folklorist Michael Chyet titled "The Innocent Slandered
Maiden." Part of the Ben Botkin Lecture Series. Recorded at the Librarary of Congress, Mary
Pickford Theater, November 21, 2003. Collection consists of program flyer and
videorecording of the lecture in which Cheyet compares Middle Eastern versions of the
folktale "The Innocent Slandered Maiden" (AT 883A).
Inclusive Years: 2003 Nov. 21
AFC Number: AFC 2003/034
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Robert J. Clayton / Goin' Up Cripple Creek: Traditional Banjo Styles in the Archive of Folk
Song, Library of Congress
Description: Thesis: George Washington University
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Sara Cleveland Folk Tales and Belief Tales of New England
Description: One 10-inch tape of stories spoken by Sara Cleveland and others. Recorded primarily in
Brant Lake, New York, by Kenneth S. Goldstein and others, March 1968. The collection
includes five pages of story titles.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17020


Title: Robert Cochran / "Walking On" Videotape Collection
Description: Thirty-minute videotape showing original process of making maple sugar and syrup in the
Ozark Mountains, Arkansas. Gives a biographical portrait of Walter Williams. Contains
gospel music performed by the Villines Brothers.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1997/022
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Robert Cochran / Frankie Kelly "Music's Easier" Collection
Description: This one-hour video includes interviews with Frankie Kelly and his wife about his life as a
stonecarver and Western Swing fiddler in Springdale, Arkansas. Features historic family
photographs, tours of local buildings that Kelly helped build (including the local Legion
Hall where Kelly used to perform on the fiddle) and live performances of Kelly at local
dance halls. The video was produced in 1997 by the Fulbright College of Arts and
Sciences, Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, University of Arkansas and directed
by Robert Cochran.
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: AFC 1998/016
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Pete Coe / "Catch me if you Can" Collection
Description: "Catch Me If You Can", a published and copyrighted cassette featuring the songs of Cornish
traveling family. Selected from field recordings made by Pete Coe from the singing of
Charlotte and Betsy Renals and Sophie Legg. Edited and mixed by Martin Scragg and Sam
Richards. Also noted on cassette label: Westcountry Folklore Centre, Leechwell St.,
Totnes. Keywords: unaccompanied singin, Cornwall.
AFC Number: AFC 1987/038
AFS Number:


Title: Sheila Cogan / George Washington University Folk Music Society Collection
Description: The collection includes photocopies of photographs (both of members and of folk artists),
news clippings, correspondence, song texts, folk music event programs, and other
ephemera of the beginning of this college folksong organization, of which the donor was a
co-founder. These document the history of an example of the folk song movement
throughout college campuses in the early 1960s.
Inclusive Years: 1960-1964
AFC Number: AFC 1997/004
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Sheila Cogan / Portable Folk Festival Collection
Description: This collection is composed of a variety of materials relating to "The Portable Folk
Festival." In June, 1971, 16 folk musicians boarded a 1947 reconditioned bus in Berkeley,
California, for a cross-country, summer-long performance tour. The self-titled "Hoopers,"
documented their daily life in various media for the 2 1/2 month journey. Included are: 5
manuscripts highlighted by a 119-page travel log; 15 photos; 25 contact sheets; 1 original
poster; one itinerary drafted on a continental U.S. map; and 13 pieces of ephemera. In
addition, two original indexed audiocassettes of music and performers' commentary.
Others on the "Portable Folk Festival" Tour included: Mike Cogan, Larry Hanks, Jon Wilcox,
Jim Ringer (deceased), and Faith Petric. The 119-page log was updated daily by a rotation
of "Hoopers," and provides an intimate look at the genre of the times through the activities
and reflections of the "Portable" participants. Of note, also, is a detailed accounting of the
" Portable Folk Festival" authored by journalist Amie Hill which was published in the San
Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, November 21, 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: AFC 1998/005
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Jacqueline Delores Cogdell / An Analytical Study of Similarities and Differences in the
American Black Spiritual and Gospel song from the Southwest region of Georgia
Description: M.A. Thesis, UCLA, 1972. Microfilm Number: 97/1107.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Diana Cohen Hopi Religion Collection
Description: Songs and interview concerning song composition, snake dance, Kiva ceremonies and
other aspects of Hopi Indian religion by Ferrel Secakuku and Perry Honaisi. Recorded in
May 1974, by Diana Cohen in Second Mesa, Arizona.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: AFC 1978/003
AFS Number: AFS 19976
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/cohen.html


Title: John and Penny Cohen / Peru Recordings
Description: Folk music and lore from Peru, recorded in 1964 by John and Penny Cohen.
Inclusive Years: 1964
AFC Number: AFC 1972/005
AFS Number: AFS 14636-14648


Title: Mike Cohen / 22nd Annual Old Time Fiddle Contest, Shelburne, Ontario, Canada
Description: Recordings made at the 22nd Annual Old Time Fiddle Contest, Shelburne, Ontario,
Canada, August 1972, by members of Trailside Country School.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: AFC 1973/006
AFS Number: AFS 15524-15528


Title: Mike and John Cohen Wire Recordings
Description: Mostly dubbed from Oscar Brand's Sunday evening radio program on WNYC "Folk Festival of
the Air." Additional recordings of John Cohen (singing Catskill Mountain Songs of the sort
collected by Norman Cazden and popular at Camp Woodland), Woody Wachtel and Rev.
Gary Davis at his home in the Bronx were made live.
Inclusive Years: 1947-1953
AFC Number: AFC 1980/003
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Philip Cohen / Vermont Recordings
Description: Discs recorded by Philip Cohen in Vermont, August, 1941. See also AFS 6107.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 5215-5224


Title: Russell Coile / French, Spanish, and Greek Folk Music
Description: Folk music of various Mediterranean countries, including three reels from Spain, two reels
from France, and one reel from Greece. Recorded in 1952 by Russell Coile. Some lists in
tape boxes.
Inclusive Years: 1952
Duration: < 5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10826-10831


Title: College of Idaho Folklore Archive: Reels 12-15
Description: Ballads, songs (some humorous), recitations, narrative beliefs games from Idaho and
Australia. Latter includes some Aboriginal items; Idaho material includes some Chicano.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17607-17609


Title: College of Idaho Folklore Archive / Folklore, Music, and Oral History of the Snake River
Description: College of Idaho Folklore Archive: Reels 1-11. Includes folklore and music, oral history of
the Snake River Basin. Directed by Louis Attebery.
AFC Number: AFC 1974/005
AFS Number: AFS 16999-17002


Title: Daniel Collins Irish American Music
Description: One 10-inch tape of Irish music performed by Joe Burke, Jack Cohn [Cohen?], Andy
McGann, and others. Recorded in New York City by Daniel Collins, January 1972. The
collection includes two pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1972
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: AFC 1972/012
AFS Number: AFS 14697


Title: Fletcher Collins, Jr. Collection
Description: Sound recordings and manuscript materials collected by Fletcher Collins, Jr. between 1935
and 1942 in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Donated to the Library of Congress
between 1939 and 2002. Records made by Fletcher Collins, Elon College, North Carolina.
Deposited by the Joint Committee on Folk Arts, WPA. Records made in North Carolina by
Fletcher Collins, using Library of Congress machine and discs, in the spring of 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1935-1942
AFC Number: AFC 1939/003
AFS Number: 2235; 3769-3788; 6482-6495
Database: Onsite access only


Title: Kenneth Alan Collins / Samuel Carl Collins Recollections of Jewish Life on the Lower East
Side of New York
Description: One audiocassette of Samuel Carl Collins discussing the book, World of Our Fathers by
Irving Howe, and his recollections of his Jewish family including immigration and life on
the Lower East Side of New York City. Donated by his son, Kenneth Alan Collins, January
1977. The collection includes one page of a concordance and notes.
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19235


Title: Colorado Project 1980
Description: 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.
Inclusive Years: 1980
Duration: 10 hrs., 22 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1991/031
AFS Number: AFS 22440-22456


Title: Colorado State Folk Arts Program / "Do Not Pass Me By" Collection
Description: 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. Includes cowboy poetry and songs, vocal
duets, fiddle tunes, Spanish American dance tunes, Slovenian-American accordion music,
Volga German polkas, Irish-American ballads and tunes, bluegrass-gospel, and
contemporary black gospel music. Recorded in the performers' homes and at public
gatherings.
Inclusive Years: 1983-1984
Duration: 1 hr. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24204


Title: Colorado State Folk Arts Program / "Nyle Henderson: Cowboy Poet" Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of two cowboy poems "Bueno, Which in Spanish Means Good," and "Old
Double Ought," spoken by Nyle Henderson. Recorded in Delta County, Colorado, at the
performer's home, 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.
Inclusive Years: 1982
Duration: 10 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24205


Title: Doreen Conboy / Irene Brookings Collection
Description: One compact disc containing 32 recordings of songs, stories, and anecdotes recorded by
Doreen Conboy of Maine farm woman Irene Brookings (age 77 at time of recording).
Inclusive Years: 2001
AFC Number: AFC 2002/001
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Conjunto Social y Folclorico / Promotional Collection
Description: This collection consists of a promotional kit which includes an audiocassette of 5 songs
sung in Spanish with instrumental accompaniment. Additionally, there is a black-and-white
photograph of the group, 5 pages of biographical and promotional material and 2 pages of
correspondence. The group promotes the cultural heritage of Puerto Rico through arts and
crafts, music, and dance. The photograph shows the members of the group with their
instruments which include cuatro, guirro, guitar and hand drums.
Inclusive Years: 1997
AFC Number: AFC 1998/009
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Pat Conte / Larry Johnson Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of ten blues songs sung with guitar and an interview with Larry Johnson.
Recorded by Pat Conte during a radio broadcast entitled "Something Inside O' Me" at
WKCR-FM, Columbia University, New York City, July 25, 1981. The collection includes ten
pages of correspondence, recording logs, and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1981
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22472


Title: "Conversations with Texans" Collection
Description: Panel discussion of folk music and folklore in Texas with Alan Lomax, Bess Lomax Hawes,
Shirley Lomax Dugan, and Patricia Jasper at the Smithsonian Discovery Theater, March
16, 1987, as part of a series on Texas. Topics covered include a history of the Lomax
family's influence on collecting American folksong with emphasis on John Lomax,
presentation of a video and slide show of Mexican-American folk art, and snatches of 9
songs and poems from the Lomax collection. This was part of a lecture series focusing on
different states implemented by the Resident Associate Program of the Smithsonian and
was the pilot program. Moderated by Raye Virginia Allen; also U.S. Rep. Steve Bartlett.
Duration: 100 min.
AFC Number: AFC 1990/007
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Cecelia Conway and Tommy Thompson North Carolina Recording Project
Description: Songs, narration and music played on banjo, fiddle, guitar and piano by Black folk
musicians in North Carolina. Recorded by Cecelia Conway and Tommy Thompson in North
Carolina in 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18733-18753


Title: Coon Creek Girls Recordings
Description: Coon Creek Girls of Renfro Valley, Kentucky, singing 4 country songs accompanied on
banjo and guitar. Two of these are dubbed from Vocalion releases, circa 1938, other two
unknown. Recorded by Department of State, OWI, and acquired by Library of Congress
through transfer from Office of War Information.
Inclusive Years: c.1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18092-18097


Title: Cooperative Acquisitions Project / Finnish and Norwegian Music
Description: Four 10-inch discs of folk music of Finland and Norway. Transferred to the Music Division of
Library of Congress from the Cooperative Acquisitions Project. The collection includes
fourteen sheets of songs lists, transcripts, and other documentation.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10292-10195


Title: Cooperative Acquisitions Project / Austrian Folk Music
Description: Eight 12-inch and eleven 10-inch discs of Austrian folk music from various regions in
Austria. Recorded ca. 1950s. Transferred from the Cooperative Acquisitions Project.
Duration: 2 hrs. 45 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10210-10228


Title: The Copper Family Concert Collection
Description: A cappella English traditional singing performed by members of the Copper Family of
Rottingham, Sussex, England. No log.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1994/002
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Silva Novo / Folksongs of Brazil
Description: Folksongs of Brazil made by Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Silva Novo in Minas
Gerais, Brazil, January and February 1944.
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: AFC 1948/002
AFS Number: AFS 7764-7860


Title: Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Nogueira Franca, Goyania, Goyaz, Brazil
Description: Recordings made by Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Nogueira Franca in Goyania,
Goyaz, Brazil, June 24-27, 1942. List.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7019-7036


Title: Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Nogueira Franca / Ceara, Brazil Recordings
Description: Recorded by Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Nogueira Franca in Ceara, Brazil,
Jan-Feb 1943.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7324-7373


Title: Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Nogueira Franca / Goyaz, Brazil Recordings
Description: Records made by Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo and E. Nogueira Franca in Goyania, Goyaz,
Brazil, January and February, 1943. List.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1945/008
AFS Number: AFS 7324-7398


Title: Gerry Correll / Mary "Grandma" Smith Duplication Project
Description: "Grandma" Smith, banjo and songs. Recorded in Corbin, Kentucky, by Jerry Correll, 1972.
Inclusive Years: 1972
Duration: 37 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14771


Title: Country Music Foundation / Decca Co. Dubs
Description: Jolly Boys of Lafayette (Louisiana) recorded February 21, 1937 by Decca Co., No. 5431A.
" Old Man Crip" (61916A). A version of "Our Goodman." Tape copy gift of Country Music
Foundation.
Inclusive Years: 1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17473


Title: Country Music Sources book lecture
Description: Association of Sound Recording Collections meeting featuring Richard K. Spottswood and
Doug Meade discussing their publication _Country Music Sources_ (aka the Gus [Guthrie
T.] Meade Discography). Recorded at the Library of Congress, Performing Arts Reading
Room, November 13, 2002.
Inclusive Years: 2002
AFC Number: AFC 2002/022
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Clayton LeRoy Cowan / Irish Folksong Elements in American Popular Music, 1860-1900
Description: M.A. Thesis, University of Southern California, 1950. Microfilm Number: 97/1108
Inclusive Years: 1860-1900
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Cowboy Poetry Day
Description: A seminar of cowboy poetry sponsored by The Poetry and Literature Center and the
American Folklife Center titled "Cowboy Poetry Day." April 7, 1994. Featuring Hal Cannon,
Kim Stafford, Sunny Hancock, Linda Hussa, and Paul Zarzyski.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1994/007
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Sidney Robertson Cowell / WPA California Folk Music Project Collection
Description: California folk music recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Music Dept. of University
of California and Archive of American Folk-song.
AFC Number: AFC 1940/001
AFS Number: AFS 3342-3377; 3809-3880; 4194-4325
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html


Title: Sidney Robertson Cowell / Carrie Grover Recordings
Description: Nine 12-inch discs of thirty-five songs and fiddle tunes performed by Mrs. Carrie Grover of
Gorham, Maine. Recorded in Teaneck, New Jersey, by Sidney Robertson (Cowell), April
1941. The collection includes six pages of content lists.
Inclusive Years: 1941
Duration: 1 hr. 35 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 4690-4698


Title: Sidney Robertson Cowell Duplication Project
Description: Eleven 10-inch tapes of interviews and music recorded in California, Canada, Iran, Ireland,
Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Wisconsin by Sidney Robertson Cowell,
1952-56. The collection includes two and one-half linear inches of correspondence,
journals, logs, notes, postcards, and transcriptions, and an article. See also: AFS AFS 11,307-11,309.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11334-11344


Title: Sidney Robertson Cowell and Charles Seeger / Resettlement Administration and the 1937
National Folk Festival
Description: One hundred fifty-nine 12-inch discs of instrumentals and songs recorded in Arkansas,
Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin by
Sidney Robertson Cowell, Charles Seeger, Margaret Valiant, and others for the Special
Skills Division, Resettlement Administration, 1936-37.
Inclusive Years: 1936-1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3155-3313


Title: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of interviews and music recorded in California, Canada, Iran, Ireland
(Co. Mayo and Co. Galway), Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Wisconsin by
Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1952-56. The collection includes two and one-half linear inches
of correspondence, journals, logs, notes, postcards, and transcriptions, and an article.
Includes Anglo-American songs and ballads from New England and California; English
and Gaelic songs and ballads from Cape Breton Island, Canada; Spanish-American songs
from southern California. Wayland D. Hand, Montana. In combination with AFS 11,334-11,444.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11307-11309


Title: John H. Cowley / Dissertation entitled "Music and Migration: Aspects of Black Music in the
British Caribbean, the United States, and Britain, [1750-1950]
Description: This is John H. Cowley's doctoral dissertation entitled, "Music & Migration: Aspects of
Black Music in the British Caribbean, the United States, and Britain, before the
Independence of Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago." Two volumes. Discusses the
development and impact of calypso and related music. Keywords: Carnival Music Tobago
Jamaican Music West Africa Fiddles West India Trinidad Drum Dances
Inclusive Years: Dissertation covers ca. 1750-1950
AFC Number: AFC 1996/021
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Frank Crampton Reminiscence Collection
Description: 73 dictabelts dictated in 1953 by Frank Crampton in connection with authorship of his
published reminiscences, _Deep Enough_ , Denver, Colorado: Sage Press, 1966, and
Norman, Oklahoma: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1982 (TN433.A5C7 1982 Folk). Also a log of
dictabelts and several pieces of related correspondence.
Inclusive Years: 1953
AFC Number: AFC 1984/003
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Ed Cray Manuscript Collection
Description: Research materials gathered during the writing of Cray's book, _The Erotic Muse_ (2
editions), manuscripts of the book itself. Some non-bawdy material (Singleton and some
" Army Songs" material). Also, recordings of Scottish piper James MacColl; Australian
songs; and various field recordings made by Cray and/or his students. Photos of several
folk revival performers.
AFC Number: AFC 1989/019
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Helen Creighton / Nova Scotia Recordings
Description: Two hundred sixteen 12-inch discs and one 6-inch disc of birds, instrumentals,
monologues, religious matter, shanties, songs, and stories recorded in Nova Scotia by
Helen Creighton, July 1943-June 1944. The collection includes six hundred and sixty-six
pages of textual transcriptions and notes. [AFS 7277A1 contains German material; Gaelic;
French-Canadian- Indian; Canadian-Micmac]
Inclusive Years: 1943-1944
AFC Number: AFC 1944/016
AFS Number: AFS 7100-7316


Title: William Henry Crocker / Canela (Ramkokamekra) Indian Collection
Description: Songs and group dance chants, some with gourd rattle accompaniment, by the
Ramkokamerkra group of the Canela Indians of the Amazon Basin of South America.
Recorded in Brazil by William Henry Crocker of the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of Natural History, September 1978-October 1979.
Inclusive Years: 1978-1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22968-23018


Title: Kenneth Croft Cheyenne wire recordings
Description: Ten wires of Northern and Southern Cheyenne conversations, instructions to children,
songs, and stories performed by Blue Elk, Run Away, Charles Redbird, William Guerrier,
John Standing (or Stands-in) Timber, Turkey Legs, Mortimer Dreamer, and unidentified
others. Recorded in Montana and Oklahoma by Kenneth Croft, 1948-49. Acquired from the
American Philosophical Society. The collection includes three pages of lists and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1949
Duration: 8 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1970/008
AFS Number: AFS 14358-14367


Title: Cultural Conservation: "Reconfiguring the Cultural Mission" Conference Collection
Description: The "first national conference" on cultural conservation held at the Library of Congress, May
16-19, 1990, and presented by the American Folklife Center. Mary Hufford transcribed some
of the tapes.
Inclusive Years: 1990
AFC Number: AFC 1990/018
AFS Number: AFS 27011-27017


Title: Michael Cutsumbis / Greek Folk Music
Description: Greek folk music dubbed from privately pressed phonodisc "H Hara toy Metanasti" ("The
Joys of the Immigrant").
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14476-14477

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Title: Marcia Mint Danab / Jewish Festivals Collection
Description: Eight 10-inch tapes of interviews concerning Jewish festivals and religious customs, family
histories, personal narratives, and songs in Ladino and Yiddish. Recorded in Eugene,
Pleasant Hill, Portland, and Salem, Oregon, by Marcia Mint Danab, July-October 1981, for
the Jewish Festivals Project. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Oregon Committee for
the Humanities. The collection includes 137 pages of transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1981
Duration: 14 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23260-23267


Title: Barbara Dane Collection
Description: Forty-three 10-inch, eighty 7-inch, and thirty-five 5-inch tapes containing events,
instrumentals, interviews, and songs. Recorded primarily by and for Barbara Dane and Irwin
Silber at various locations in Canada and the United States, 1952-78, including the "Sing
Out!" radio program on WBAI-FM, New York City. The collection includes one and one-half
linear inches of content lists, correspondence, notes, photocopies of original tape boxes,
and transcripts. Note: the logs are incomplete. Keywords: Protest music, Vietnam War,
anti-war songs.
AFC Number: AFC 1980/001
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Percy Danforth Reminiscences on Bones-Playing and Sand Dancing
Description: Percy Danforth, who learned to sand dance and play the bones from black teenagers in
Washington, D.C., circa 1916, reminisces and demonstrates his skill. Recorded at the
Library of Congress in Studio B, August 20, 1975. Video taped in Coolidge Auditorium
August 21, 1975. Gerald E. Parsons, interviewer. See also AFC 1976/001 and 1976/002.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18099-18101


Title: Linda Danielson / Oregon Old-Time Fiddling Collection Part 1
Description: Interviews with fiddlers Marie Gates, John Hoerster, Paul Lakey, Delores Lakey, Phyl
Simmons, and Hank Wobbe interviewed by Linda Danielson about their lives and their
music. Recorded in August and September 1976 in western Oregon. Includes some transcripts.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21857-21865


Title: Linda Danielson / Oregon Old-Time Fiddling Collection, Part II
Description: Old-time fiddlers from Lane County, Douglas County and Jackson County, Oregon are
interviewed about their lives and music by Linda Danielson. Includes music. Recorded in
Aug and Sept, 1976. Interviews 1-11 and 17-26, plus Supplement I (interviews 12-16
constitute Part I of the Collection-AFS 21,865 - and Supplement II was deposited at the
Folklore Archive of the University of Oregon). Includes some transcripts.
AFC Number: AFC 1988/001
AFS Number: AFS 26017-26042


Title: Dartmouth College / Celebration Northeast 1977
Description: Nine 10-inch tapes of instrumentals and songs from Canada, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New York, and Vermont recorded at Celebration Northeast, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire, July 22-23, 1977. The collection includes four pages of
concordances, correspondence, and two brochures.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19517-19525


Title: Amita Datta-Majumder / Hindu Folk Songs
Description: Amita Datta-Majumder singing Hindu folk songs recorded April 27, 1948. Keywords: India,
Sitar
Inclusive Years: 1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9133-9134


Title: Carol Beery Davis / Tlingit Songs
Description: One 7-inch tape and one cassette of Tlingit Indian songs. Recorded in Juneau, Alaska, by
Carol Beery Davis, beginning "almost immediately [in] December, 1920...[and representing]
the result of fifty-two years of effort." Submitted for copyright on July 3, 1978. Songs of the
Tlingit Indians, especially Jim Fox, a full blooded Tlingit medicine man.
Duration: 20 min., 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19379-19380


Title: Madam Juliette Gaultier de la Verendrye Recordings
Description: French Acadian folk songs, Indian songs and Copper Eskimo songs. Sung by Madam
Juliette Gaultier de la Verendrye, with table harp and drum in the Recording Laboratory on
May 14, 1945. Madam is internationally known. Includes a list. Keywords: Indian, Canada
Inclusive Years: 1945
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7651-7652


Title: Frederica de Laguna / Catherine McClellan Atna-Athabascan Collection
Description: Eight 7-inch tapes of narratives, songs, and vocabulary of the Atna Athabascan Indians.
Recorded in Chistochina and Copper Center, Alaska, by Frederica de Laguna and Catherine
McClellan, July 22--August 25, 1960. The collection includes four pages of textual
transcriptions. Indian, American - Atna Athabaskan
Inclusive Years: 1960
Duration: 16 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12066-12073


Title: Frederica de Laguna and Catherine McClellan / Tlingit Recordings
Description: One wire spool of Tlingit Indian Billy Jones narrating the story of the "Destruction of
Angoon," singing and accompanying on drum the "Song of the Raven Hat" and "Song of the
Beaver Hat" with Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Johnson, and singing three Tsimshian songs with Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmie Johnson, Mary Willis, and Mrs. Elsie Frank. Recorded in Angoon, Alaska,
by Frederica de Laguna, June 21-22, 1950. The collection includes eight pages of textual
transcriptions. Acquired from American Philosophical Society.
Inclusive Years: 1950
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14373


Title: Frederica de Laguna and Catherine McClellan Tlingit Indian Recordings Collection
Description: Six 10-inch tapes of Atna Athabascan and Tlingit Indian songs, descriptions of animal
noises, interviews, and narratives from Chistochina, Copper River, and Gulkana. Recorded
in Copper Center and Yakutat by Frederica de Laguna and Catherine McClellan,
June-August 1952 and July 11--September 4, 1958. The collection includes thirteen pages
of notes and textual transcriptions. American Philosophical Society (continuation).
Indians, American - Tlingit Indians, American - Atna
Duration: 12 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11998-12003


Title: "Dear Mr. President" Collection
Description: Four 16-inch, forty-eight 12-inch, and three 8-inch discs of recorded reactions to war-time
conditions in the United States. Recorded by Robert E. Barton Allen, Harry Behn, Fletcher
Collins, Duncan Emrich, John Henry Faulk, Helen Hartness Flanders, Charles Johnson,
Lewis Jones, Marguerite Olney, Vance Randolph, William N. Robson, Robert Sonkin, and
Charles Todd in various locations throughout the United States, January-February 1942.
Recorded for the Office of Emergency Management Radio Section program "Dear Mr.
President." The collection includes one linear inch of correspondence, logs, and transcripts.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: AFC 1942/003
AFS Number: AFS 6397-6452; 6455-6463
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html


Title: Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band / 1987 AFC Concert Collection
Description: Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band: a concert of traditional New Orleans brass band
music, recorded at Coolidge Auditorium February 17, 1987, 12:00 noon; to commemorate
Black History Month at the Library of Congress.
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1987/026
AFS Number: AFS 24368-24369


Title: Chris Delaney / Fiddle Music
Description: Eleven 10-inch tapes of primarily tunes played on fiddle. Recorded in Arkansas, Iowa,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and West Virginia by Chris Delaney,
1973. Includes Cajun music and copies of old hillbilly 78s.
Inclusive Years: 1973
AFC Number: AFC 1973/026
AFS Number: AFS 16984-16994


Title: Frances Densmore Collection - Chippewa
Description: One 10-inch tape, primarily of Chippewa Indian songs, originally recorded on nine cylinders
by Frances Densmore, 1907-09, for the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian
Institution. Possibly includes Hewitt.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22176


Title: Frances Densmore Salish Recordings
Description: Music of the Indians of British Columbia, Canada. Recorded by Frances Densmore in the
1920s.
Inclusive Years: 1920s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12316


Title: Frances Densmore / Sioux and Navajo Songs from the Chicago Fair, 1933
Description: Records made by Frances Densmore. Sioux and Navajo songs recorded at the Chicago
Fair, 1933. List. Indian, American - Sioux Indian, American - Navaho
Inclusive Years: 1933
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6895-6896


Title: Frances Densmore Discs of Miscellaneous Cylinders
Description: Fourteen 12-inch discs of North American Indian songs originally recorded on cylinders at
various locations by Frances Densmore, 1908-34, for the Bureau of American Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution. The collection includes one linear inch of notes.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6182-6195


Title: William E. DeTurk / Blair Family History
Description: Songbook and accompanying audiocassette titled _Blair Family History: In Songs, True
Stories, and Photographs_ by William E. DeTurk. The songbook is hand-created, marked
" copy 2" with photographic prints attached. The book details the author's family history. The
recording features the Eastbound Freight Bluegrass Band.
Inclusive Years: 1994-1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/041
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Quinten Lotus Dickey Copyright Song Collection
Description: One audiocassette transfered from the Copyright office, and contains 3 songs sung by
Lotus Dickey, and one hundred pages of manuscripts include the leadsheets for 2 more
songs. The transfer resulted from a copyright search by Grey Larsen, who was then
preparing a book on Dickey's songs. This was later published as _The Lotus Dickey
Songbook_, with 4 audiotapes, by Lotus Dickey Music, in association with Indiana Univ. Press.
Inclusive Years: c.1985
AFC Number: AFC 1996/055
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Eleanor Dickinson Interview Collection
Description: Interview with Eleanor Dickinson conducted by David Taylor at the Library of Congress, April
1, 2004.
Inclusive Years: 2004
AFC Number: AFC 2004/006
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Guitar Music by James Dicky
Description: Pieces played on 6- and 12- string guitar by James Dicky, Poetry Consultant at the Library of
Congress. Recorded in the Recording Laboratory by Rae Korson and John Howell, June 7,
1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13111


Title: John Dildine Collection
Description: Folksingers recorded in the late 1950s by John R. Dildine, particularly Tom Paley, Paul
Clayton, Char Daniels, Rick Von Schmidt and Hutch Morris.
Inclusive Years: late 1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17511-17538


Title: Dwight Diller / Hammons Family Recollections Collection
Description: Two 7-inch tapes of five instrumentals and an interview with Dwight Diller concerning his
recollections of the Hammons family of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, his own
religious awakening, and aspects of traditional music. Conducted by Alan Jabbour and
recorded by Gerald E. Parsons at the Library of Congress, December 18, 1980. The
collection includes four pages of collection entries, a concordance, and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1980
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 26768-26769


Title: Dwight Diller and Tom Brown / Hammons Family Recordings
Description: Five 7-inch tapes of instrumentals and songs performed with banjo, fiddle, and guitar by
Pete Bachman, William Moses "Mose" Coffman, Dwight Diller, Burl Hammons, Lee
Hammons, and Maggie Hammons Parker. Recorded in Buckeye, West Virginia, by Dwight
Diller, October 23-24, 1970. Duplicated and donated by Tom Brown. The collection
includes eleven pages of correspondence and logs. Duplicated by Tom Brown and donated
to the Archive.
Inclusive Years: 1970
Duration: 2 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14481-14485


Title: Tom Dillon Recordings
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals performed on fiddle by Thomas Dillon of Webster
County, West Virginia. Recorded at the Library of Congress by Robert B. Carneal, July 26,
1956. The collection includes five pages of collection entries, correspondence, lists, and
reports, and eight newspaper clippings.
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11302


Title: Discoteca Publica Municipal de Sao Paulo Collection
Description: Records from Discoteca Publica Municipal of Sao Paulo, Brazil, recorded in Brazil,
1937-1938. List. Key subjects: Babassue; Barca; Batucada; Batuque; Berceuse; Brazilian
dance and music; Brinquedo da Barca; Bumba-Meu-Boi; Bumba-Meu-Cabacal;
Caboclinhos; Carregadores de pedra; Caterete; Catimob; Cheganca de marujos; Coco;
Congada; costumes; Cururu; Chorinho (Choro); Chula; dance-dramas; Desafio; Embolada;
Feiticaria Afro-Brasilera; folk dance and music; Frevo; Jongo; Lundu; Macumba; Maracatu;
material culture; Maxixe; Moda-de-Viola; Modinha; musical instruments; Ponto; Quadrilha;
Recortado; Reis de Congo; ritual; Samba; Schottisch; social life and customs;
Tambo-de-Mina; Toada; Tore; trance dancing; Valsa; Tirana; Xango.
Inclusive Years: 1937-1938
AFC Number: AFC 1943/001
AFS Number: AFS 7399-7597; AFS 9813-9828
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/discoteca.html


Title: Dorsey Dixon Recordings Collection
Description: Songs by Dorsey Dixon (with guitar), of East Rockingham, North Carolina. Recorded at the
Library of Congress in Studio A, by Joseph C. Hickerson on November 15, 1963.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12031


Title: William M. Doerflinger Collection, Part 4
Description: Two 10-inch tapes, copied from discs, of fifty-two maritime songs sung by various singers.
Recorded in New Brunswick, Canada, and Sailor's Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York
City, by William M. Doerflinger, 1940. The collection includes one-quarter linear inch of a
concordance, correspondence, and recording logs.
Inclusive Years: c.1940
Duration: 10 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23183-23184


Title: William Doerflinger / Capt. Patrick Tayluer Recordings
Description: Thirty-eight 12-inch discs of fifty-six sea songs with commentary sung and spoken by
Captain Patrick Tayluer. Recorded in New York City by William M. Doerflinger, spring 1942.
The collection includes one-fourth linear inch of correspondence, notes, and recording
logs. Recorded using L.C. equipment.
Inclusive Years: 1942
Duration: 5 hrs. 10 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6566-6603


Title: William M. Doerflinger / Captain Patrick Tayleur Recordings
Description: Two 16-inch discs of ten sea songs sung by Captain Patrick Tayluer. Recorded in New
York City by William M. Doerflinger, spring 1942.
Duration: 40 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9168-9169


Title: Nancy Dols / Clark Kessinger Family Recordings
Description: One 10-inch and three 8-inch discs of air checks and instrumentals performed on fiddle and
recorded by Clark Kessinger with family and friends in Hurricane, West Virginia, ca. 1948.
The collection includes one page of correspondence and a one-page list.
Inclusive Years: c.1948
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17602-17605


Title: Roye Donald / "The Guys" and "Big Silver Bird" demonstration audiocassette
Description: One audiocassette containing "The Guys" and "Big Silver Bird" sung by Roye Donald
(Donald Lombardi), a veteran of the Vietnam War. Recorded in New York State, 1991. The
collection includes one promotional black-and-white photo of Roye Donald, song lyrics, and
a biographical report on the artist.
Inclusive Years: 1970s
Duration: 7 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1996/010
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Richard M. Dorson / Michigan African American Songs
Description: One 10-inch and one 7-inch reelsof southern Negroes in Michigan singing songs and
telling tales. Recorded by Richard M. Dorson, Michigan State University, 1952.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10896-10897


Title: "Down Home Dairyland" / Wisconsin Folk Museum Collection
Description: Seven audiocassettes of part II of the radio series "Downhome Dairyland," hosted and
produced by Jim Leary and Richard March, presented by the Wisconsin Arts Board and the
Wisconsin Folk Museum, and broadcast weekly March 4-May 27, 1990. The collection
includes eight pages of a brochure, correspondence, datasheets, and an inventory. The
radio series entitled "Down Home Dairyland," a program of traditional and ethnic music of
Wisconsin and Michigan, hosted and produced by folklorists Jim Leary and Richard March;
presented by Wisconsin Arts Board and the Wisconsin Folk Museum. Includes
performances and interviews, as well as older recordings. Also includes Native American,
Swiss, Polish, French, German, Puerto Rican, and Asian-traditions; also fiddling, polka,
instrument building, and library and museum collections. Note two of the programs drew on
archive recordings from the 1930s and follow-up work with descendants of the earlier
recordings ("Polish Fiddlers of Posen," and "Woodland Indian Fiddlers and Jigs").
Inclusive Years: 1991
AFC Number: AFC 1991/026
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Robert Doyle Collection, Part III
Description: 1976 and 1977 Penn State Fiddlers' Competition, recorded at State College, Pennsylvania
by Timothy O'Briscoe and Hugh Johnson.
Inclusive Years: 1976-1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19455-19458


Title: Robert Doyle / Interviews with Central Pennsylvania Fiddlers
Description: Field recordings of interviews with fiddlers in central Pennsylvania, including music.
Recorded by Robert Doyle et al, 1973-1974.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18059-18073


Title: Robert Doyle / Fiddling from Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania
Description: Interviews and live recordings of fiddle playing recorded in Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania,
1975-1976, by Robert Doyle of Pennsylvania State University.
Inclusive Years: 1975-1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18080-18086


Title: Robert F. Draves and Helene Stratman-Thomas / Wisconsin Recordings
Description: Seventy-eight 12-inch discs of conversations, instrumentals, poems, and songs recorded at
various locations in Wisconsin by Robert F. Draves and Helene Stratman-Thomas (Blotz),
November 15, 1940 August 19, 1941, for the Library of Congress and the University of
Wisconsin. The collection includes three-fourths linear inch of descriptions and lists.
Keywords: Croatia; Bohemian; Polish American; Norwegian American; Belgian; German
American
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/012
AFS Number: AFS 4948-5025


Title: Alvin Duerksen / Depression Days 1934 Manuscript Collection
Description: Series of reminiscences of life and work (esp. farm labor) in the Midwest, West, and
Northwest from 1934-1941.
Inclusive Years: 1934-1941
AFC Number: AFC 1984/019
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Ernest Duerksen Duplication Project
Description: One 10-inch tape of folklore, oral history, and personal reminiscences of the Mennonites in
Kansas spoken in English and German dialect by Ernest Duerksen. Recorded in Hillsboro,
Kansas, by Ernest Duerksen, December 1971-January 1972. The collection includes nine
pages of addresses and explanations.
Inclusive Years: 1972
Duration: 30 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15077


Title: Vera Mae Duerksen / Kansas Mennonite Recordings
Description: One 10-inch tape of an oral history about Mennonites in Kansas spoken in English and
German dialect by Mrs. P. P. Unruh. Recorded in Newton, Kansas, by Ernest Duerksen,
December 9, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 28 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17479


Title: David Dunaway / Pete Seeger Interviews Collection
Description: David Dunaway, interviewer. Interview cassettes and transcripts of Pete Seeger
documenting his life as a folk musician. The interviews span over a period of seven years
beginning in April of 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1976-2000
AFC Number: AFC 2000/019
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Ruby Duncan / Ballads and Folk Songs Collected in Northern Hamilton County
Description: Thesis: University of Tennessee
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A


Title: Pat Dunford Duplication Project
Description: Twenty-five 10-inch tapes of old-time banjo and fiddle tunes, interviews, stories, and songs
by various artists. Recorded in Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia by Pat Dunford and
occasionally Lee Haggerty, Art Rosenbaum, P. Siegel, and Dan White, 1962-69. The
collection includes twenty-eight pages of song lists. Includes Wade and Fields Ward,
Frank George, John W. Summers, The Freedom Five, Kenneth Smelser, Mrs. Ella Parker,
Mrs. Sigel Underhil and more.
Inclusive Years: 1962-1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19013-19037


Title: Gretal and Paul Dunsing / A Collection of the Descriptions of Folk Dances
Description: "A Collection of the Descriptions of Folk Dances as Taught by Gretel and Paul Dunsing."
One thirty-six-page manuscript of descriptions of 66 Austrian, German, and Swiss folk
dances. Assembled by Gretel and Paul Dunsing of St. Petersburg, Florida, April 1971.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: AFC 1971/002
AFS Number: N/A


Title: C.J.S. Durham Collection
Description: Reminiscences of Mr. Mann Sharper, an 80-year old Negro living in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Recorded October 1951.
Inclusive Years: 1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10500


Title: Dutch-Russian Mennonite Church Funeral Service
Description: One 10-inch tape of a funeral service for Katherina Goosen Teichroew at the First
Mennonite Church of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, a Dutch/Russian Mennonite congregation.
Recorded originally on six 9-inch discs, April 1950, and loaned by Allan Teichroew.
Includes a funeral service for Mrs. Katherina Goossen Teichroew at the First Mennonite
Church of Mt. Lake, Minnesota in April 1950. The service is conducted in both English and
High German. A capella hymn singing is by a women's quartet.
Inclusive Years: 1950
Duration: 55 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19289


Title: Charles and Frederic Duvelle / Institute of Papua, New Guinea Studies Collection
Description: Song and ritual recitations by the Huli people of the Southern Highlands Province and the
Kiriwana people of the Milne Bay Province. Instrumentation includes conch shell, flutes,
guitar, hourglass, and ukelele. Recorded by Charles and Frederic Duvelle in Papua, New
Guinea, April-June 1974. Obtained from the collection of the Music Department of the
Institute of Papua, New Guinea Studies (IPNGS numbers 79-001 and 79-005).
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22578-22599


Title: Songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez
Description: One 10-inch tape of songs sung by Joan Baez, Bob Dylan of Hibbing, Minnesota, and Bruce
Springsteen. Recorded by Cheryl Brauner from radio and television broadcasts, 1974-78.
The collection includes nine pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1974-1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19388

 

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