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started >> publications >> folklife sourcebookFolklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United StatesArchives: North Carolina Through TennesseeGo to: NORTH CAROLINAWILLIAM L. EURY APPALACHIAN COLLECTION University Hall ESTABLISHED: 1970 TELEPHONE: (704) 262-4041 ACCESS: open to public; some materials must be supervised by librarian. RESEARCH FACILITIES: card catalogs, on-line computer catalog, lists, finding aids, bibliographies, audio and video playback equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance and photocopying available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 30 broadsides, 300 maps, 200 unpublished 78rpm and 800 LP discs, 1000 audio tapes, 75 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 200 photo prints, 1,200 slides, 110 videotapes, 13,000 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: Amos Abrams ballad collection; I. G. Greer ballad collection; York ballad collection; emphasis on Southern Appalachian region, its history, genealogy, folklore, music, and fiction. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTION: Ross, Charlotte T. Bibliography of Southern Appalachia. (Boone: Applachian Consortium Press), 1976. The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog. Appalachian Oral History Project, 1977. Shackelford, Laurel. Our Appalachia: An Oral History. (New York: Hill and Wang), 1977. PRINTED INFORMATION: various bibliographies and lists. SOUTHERN FOLKLIFE
COLLECTION
Manuscripts Department ESTABLISHED: as part of the UNC-CH Academic Affairs Library in 1986. Components were established earlier: the North Carolina Folklore Archives in 1968, and the John Edwards Memorial Collection in 1983. TELEPHONE: (919) 962-1345 ACCESS: Open to the public. Researchers may contact us in person, by mail, or by phone. Researchers may also use the Southern Historical Collection, which contains 10,000,000 manuscripts, 50,000 photographs, and 3,000 oral histories and is served by the same public service staff. RESEARCH FACILITIES: Public service area includes a research/reading room, listening and viewing rooms, photocopying services, card catalogs, database print-outs, microfiche and inventories. SERVICES: Reference assistance available from public service staff. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes over 40,000 sound recordings: approximately 16,000 78s, 8,500 45s, 8,000 LPs, 6,000 open-reel tapes, cassettes, acetate discs, cylinders, wire recordings and CDs. Also includes 3,000 photographs, 2,000 slides, 1,000 song folios, along with sheet music, artist and record company files, videotapes, reference books and journals, manuscripts, and out-takes from 4 documentary film projects. KEY COLLECTIONS: especially strong in Southern traditional music and narrative, old-time and early country, blues, gospel, religious song, ballads, and country. Also includes sermons, tall tales, classic blues, ethnic traditions, material from areas such as England, Ireland, the Caribbean, and west Africa, along with photos and slides relevant to material culture studies. Collections include the John Edwards Memorial Collection, North Carolina Folklore Archives, Archie Green Collection, D.K. Wilgus Collection, Tom Davenport Collection, Artus Moser Collection, and many others. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Boggs, Beverly, and Daniel Patterson. An Index to Selected Folklore Recordings, 1984. JEMF Quarterly. John Edwards Memorial Forum recording series. Many re-issued albums. Many scholarly studies such as Norm Cohen's The Long Steel Rail. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. CHARLOTTE MUSIC ARCHIVES Public Library
of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County ESTABLISHED: 1991 TELEPHONE: (704) 336-2980 ACCESS: open to the public, walk-in or call for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machines, files, catalogs and audio and visual equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance and archivist available. SIZE AND FORMAT: 1,000 sound recordings (mainly commercially recorded), including vinyl LPs, singles, 78s, CDs, cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, videos and eight-track cassettes; several original music manuscripts; small sheet music collection; one file drawer of subject files and photographs. KEY COLLECTIONS: emphasis of collection is on Charlotte area musicians; recordings are from both North and South Carolina, including music from the Carolina Piedmont, mountain, coastal plain, Outer Banks, and Sea Islands. Collection includes all types of music, including traditional, gospel, country, beach music, classical, blues and popular. Hunter Library ESTABLISHED: 1970 TELEPHONE: (704) 227-7474 ACCESS: open to public. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, media center, printed and automated finding aids, copying facilities. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 500 pieces of ephemera, 500 maps, 1,000 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 2,500 photo prints, 300 photo negatives. KEY COLLECTIONS: Cherokee microfilm; William Holland Thomas, W. W. Stringfield, Horace Kephart collections; Appalachian collec- tion, with special emphasis on outdoor life in area and Cherokee Indians. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: various books and articles; most recent is "Online Manuscript Search Service," American Archivist (Winter 1985). PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT Duke University Library ESTABLISHED: 1930s TELEPHONE: (919) 684-3372 ACCESS: contact by mail, phone, or e-mail; walk-in registration with photo ID. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, copying facilities, audio/ visual equipment. SERVICES: reference services available. SIZE AND FORMAT: The Brown Collection includes approximately 38,000 ms. notes, personal papers, editorial papers, student theses, and magazine articles; 650 musical scores, 1,400 songs recorded on cylinders and discs (rerecorded by the Library of Congress on 78rpm discs). The Warner Collection includes items documenting Frank Warner's performing career, along with other performers such as the Hicks and Proffitts of North Carolina. The collection also includes audio and visual records of folk song performances. KEY COLLECTIONS: The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore and the Frank and Anne Warner Folklore Collection. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no charge. EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOLKLORE ARCHIVE Department of English ESTABLISHED: 1969 TELEPHONE: (919) 328-6726 ACCESS: open for approved research by students and scholars. Research requests by mail can be handled only in a limited fashion. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading and workroom for researchers, electronic typewriter available, some photocopies at fee-per- page, audio playback facilities, slide projector and screen, incomplete card indexes. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 150 tape recordings, 200 photo prints, 200 slides, 2 purchased motion pictures, 25 original videotapes, 25 reference books and journals, 4,500 ms. collections (10-15 pp. average), 100,000 additional records of traditional items with minimal contextual information. KEY COLLECTIONS: primarily North Carolina folklife, with emphasis on the 26 eastern counties; collections in folk medicine and related belief systems; folk narrative; maritime/coastal folklife; military lore; college lore; gnomic lore; Anglo- and Afro-American, Asian, Hispanic, German, French, and Eastern European lore is represented as it affects the eastern and central portions of the state. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Folk Arts and Folklife in and around Pitt County: A Handbook and Resource Guide, with annotated bibliography, 1990. PRINTED INFORMATION: not available, but director will answer inquiries by mail.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS/APPALACHIAN ROOM Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies ESTABLISHED: 1975 ACCESS:Call or email for appointment. Hours are Monday through Friday, 1:00 pm to 4:00 p.m. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, microfilm reader/scanner/printer, scanning and copying facilities, photocopying at cost. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 6 broadsides, 25 pieces of ephemera, 50 maps, 100 published 78rpm and 150 published LP discs, 45 published discs, 25 unpublished discs, 125 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 1,400 photo prints, 1,400 photo negatives, 100 slides, 3 motion pictures, 3 videotapes, 50 material items, 200 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: Bascom Lamar Lunsford collection; Gertrude Ruskin collection; William A. Barnhill collection; Mars Hill College Archives. NORTH DAKOTAALEC BOND FOLKLORE ARCHIVE Raugust Library ESTABLISHED: 1987 TELEPHONE: (701) 252-3467 ext. 2433 ACCESS: open by appointment RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room; photocopy machines; files, catalogs; audio and visual equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance available SIZE AND FORMAT: approximately 300 folders dealing with the folklore, folklife, and folk art of the upper Midwest. OHIOHARRY L. RIDENOUR COLLECTION OF FOLKLORE AND ANTIQUITIES Ritter Library ESTABLISHED: 1965 TELEPHONE: (216) 826-2455 ACCESS: apply to director, Ritter Library. RESEARCH FACILITIES: study carrels, photocopier. SIZE AND FORMAT: 7.5 linear ft. of ms. sheets. KEY COLLECTIONS: Harry L. Ridenour Collection of Folklore and Antiquities. THE MUSIC LIBRARY AND SOUND RECORDINGS ARCHIVES Jerome Library ESTABLISHED: 1967 TELEPHONE: (419) 372-2307 RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading area, audition rooms (by arrangement), catalogs, vertical files, copying facilities, audio playback equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100,000 78rpm, 250,000 45rpm, and 100,000 LP discs, 4,000 hours tape recordings, 800 cylinder recordings, 800 photo prints, 800 "Soundies" (3-minute jukebox subjects from the 1940s), 1,000 reference books, subscriptions to lOO journals, extensive backfiles on other titles. KEY COLLECTIONS: commercially released phonograph recordings of popular music and other popularly disseminated music formats. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Cooper, B. Lee, and William L. Schurck. "Audio Encounter with a Librarian of a Different Kind," in Fred C. H. Schroeder, ed., Twentieth-Century Popular Culture in Museums and Libraries, 1981. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. JOHN G. WHITE COLLECTION OF FOLKLORE, ORIENTALIA AND CHESS Fine Arts and Special Collections Department ESTABLISHED: 1869 TELEPHONE: (216) 623-2818 ACCESS: walk-in; valid ID required. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, microfilm reader, card catalog for Oriental language materials acquired 1890-1980, online catalog, printer, copying machine. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 1,200 broadsides, 1730 chapbooks, 200 volumes of atlases, 147 unpublished tape recordings, 130 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 250 photo prints, 457 slides. KEY COLLECTIONS: John G. White Folk Culture Collection; May Augusta Klipple Collection of African Folktales; Newbell Niles Puckett Memorial Collection; international in coverage, comprehensive in scope. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Catalog of Folklore, Folklife and Folksongs, 1978. Substantial number of publications; contact library for bibliography. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOLKLORE ARCHIVE Department of English TELEPHONE: (614) 292-4212 or (614) 292-4653 ACCESS: contact Patrick Mullen or Amy Shuman. RESEARCH FACILITIES: files, copying facilities. KEY COLLECTIONS: large collection of folk music recordings; large collection of data collected by students in folklore classes; many genres represented; Ohio folklore represented. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Ellis, Bill. "Legend- Tripping in Ohio: A Behavioural Survey," Papers in Comparative Studies, Vol. 2, 1982-83. OREGONRANDALL V. MILLS MEMORIAL ARCHIVE OF NORTHWEST FOLKLORE Department of English ESTABLISHED: 1966 TELEPHONE: (503) 346-3539 or (503) 346-3925 ACCESS: call or write for further information if off-campus. RESEARCH FACILITIES: limited reading facilties, audio and video equipment. SERVICES: graduate student assistant available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 50 broadsides, 5 maps, 480 tape recordings, 4,000 ms. cards, 40 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 2,000 slides, 20 motion pictures, 35 videotapes, 25 ar- tifacts, 600 reference books and journals, 6 theses. KEY COLLECTIONS: lore of the Pacific Northwest; Native American lore; ballads and folksongs; occupational folklore of loggers, fishermen; Russian Old Believers. PRINTED INFORMATION: available. PENNSYLVANIAAMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE PROJECT FOLKLIFE DIVISION 319 Washington Street, Suite 370 ESTABLISHED: 1989 TELEPHONE: (814) 539-2016 ACCESS: by appointment RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machines, files, audio visual equipment. SERVICES: archivist available. SIZE AND FORMAT: 360 90-minute audio tapes; 1,692 color slides; 972 black- and-white photographs; additional tapes, slides, photographs, and videos not yet processed; tape and photograph logs, fieldnotes, reports, subject files with publications and clippings. KEY COLLECTIONS: Cultural surveys of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Fulton, Huntingdon, Indiana, Somersedt, Westmoreland counties; Coal and Coke; Ethnicity and Catholocism; African American Heritage Project; Coal Union. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Video Documentaries: "We'll Make the Journey: The African-American Story of Johnstown, Pennsylvania,"; "Migration and Work"; "The Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and Operators in Central Pennsylvania, 1919-1933." PRINTED INFORMATION: available. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY 105 South 5th Street ESTABLISHED: 1743 TELEPHONE: (215) 440-3400 ACCESS: appointment preferred, but not required. User must have ID and be interviewed to gain access to library. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms for printed and ms. material with card catalog for each. Photocopying by staff. Tape players available with advance notice. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 750 broadsides, 3,600 maps, 2 discs, 850 tapes (rerecorded from originals now in Library of Congress), 60 wire recordings, 25 cylinder re- cordings, 5,000,000 ms. sheets, 100 slides, 10 motion pictures, 10 videotapes, 163,000 reference books and journals (in entire library collection). KEY COLLECTIONS: specific to folklore interests: American Indian culture and linguistics; Franz Boas Collection, Elsie Clews Parsons Collection. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: numerous publications listed in "Catalogs, Bibliographies, and Finding Aids Relating to the Holdings of the American Philosophical Society Library from 1824 to the Present," available from library. PRINTED INFORMATION: Sources for the History of Folkore in the Manuscripts Department of the American Philosophical Society, brochure available at no cost; other publications at various prices. DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY TAMBURITZANS INSTITUTE OF FOLK ARTS Library/Museum/Archives ESTABLISHED: 1954 TELEPHONE: (412) 434-5185 ACCESS: by appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: collection uncataloged; audio and video playback equipment available from library. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100 maps, 7,000 78rpm, 500 45rpm, and 4,000 LP discs, 1,000 tape recordings, 5,000 slides, 4,000 costume pieces, 500 musical instruments, 30,000 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: business records of the Duquesne University Tamburitzans; East European ethnic periodicals; ethnic music. GEORGE G. KORSON FOLKLORE ARCHIVE D. Leonard Corgan Library ESTABLISHED: 1970 TELEPHONE: (717) 826-5900 ACCESS: call or write for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, catalogs, files, copying facilities, audio and video equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 50 78rpm and 70 LP discs, 107 tape recordings, 40 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 2 linear ft. of photo prints, 1,400 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: George G. Korson Folklore Archive; coal mining folklore; Pennsylvania-German folklore. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Tierney, Judith. A Description of the George Korson Folklore Archive, 1973. PRINTED INFORMATION: available. PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN STUDIES PROGRAM Ursinus College ESTABLISHED: 1964 TELEPHONE: (215) 489-4111, ext. 2388 ACCESS: write or call two weeks in advance. RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalogs. SERVICES: archivist must be present. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 600 broadsides, 3,000 pieces of ephemera, 30 maps, 60 45rpm and 20 LP discs, 750 hours of tape recordings, 90,000 ms. cards, 14 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 2,000 photo prints, 500 photo negatives, 1,500 slides, 5 motion pictures, 50 videotapes, dialect columns and poetry. KEY COLLECTIONS: A.L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural File; Charles Rhoads Roberts manuscript collection; Walter E. Boyer Folk Music Collection (includes items from Bornemann collection); William T. Parsons-Evan S. Snyder audio-cassette collection; William T. Parsons color slide and photograph collection; Pennsylvania-German folk material and artifacts with Rhineland, Swiss, and Alsatian migrant background materials; Dialect Columnist collections. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Pennsylvania Dutch Studies Series (1974-83). Pennsylvania German Studies Series (1981-84). German and Pennsylvania German Reprint Series (1981-present). PRINTED INFORMATION: free with charge for postage. PENNSYLVANIA HERITAGE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOLKLIFE ARCHIVE Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission ESTABLISHED: 1982 TELEPHONE: (717) 783-8625 ACCESS: written statement explaining needs of researcher and intended use of materials; open by appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: files, catalogs, audio and visual equipment, study space available. SERVICES: reference assistance avaiable. SIZE AND FORMAT: 6,000 color slides; 3,000 black and white negatives; 350 tape recordings; 20 video tapes; 2 slide presentations; 100 reference books; cultural survey summaries from almost every county in Pennsylvania; and a database of 1,600 traditional artists. KEY COLLECTIONS: Pennsylvania folk arts and folklife, including archives of a county-by-county traditional arts survey; the Stahl Pottery collection of Susan LF Isaacs; Traditional Arts Survey: 1985-86; Apprenticeships in Traditional Arts of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Stahl Pottery Report; Craft and Community PRINTED INFORMATION: available. Division of Archives and Manuscripts ESTABLISHED: 1903 TELEPHONE: (717) 783-3281 ACCESS: walk-in; present ID. RESEARCH FACILITIES: public search room, finding aids. Copying done by staff. SERVICES: reference assistance always available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 20 broadsides, 1000 maps, 40,000 cu. ft. of ms. sheets, 350,000 photo prints, 50,000 photo negatives, 100,000 slides, 500 motion pictures, 100 videotapes. KEY COLLECTIONS: state government and regionally significant materials, including materials on forestry, industry, private papers of women's groups, and social welfare records. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: extensive list of publications available from archivist. PRINTED INFORMATION: brochures available at no cost; other publications available at various prices. PHILADELPHIA FOLKLORE PROJECT ARCHIVE OF PHILADELPHIA FOLKLIFE 1304 Wharton Street ESTABLISHED: 1987 TELEPHONE: (215) 468-7871 ACCESS: Open to the public by appointment RESEARCH FACILITIES: computer catalog, indices and finding aids, audio and video playback equipment, negative and slide viewing equipment SERVICES: photocopying and reference assistance SIZE AND FORMAT: Includes approximately 28,095 photographs, 401 audiotapes, 214 videotapes, 69 shelf feet of manuscripts/paper ephemera and 103 artifacts KEY COLLECTIONS: Emphasis on Philadelphia area folk culture. Strengths in Southeast Asian (especially Cambodian), African American and Italian folklife, the folklife of family businesses, and Philadelphia area folk cultural organizations past and present. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTION: many publications including: Works in Progress, the magazine of the Philadelphia Folklore Project (1987-present) Michael, Jennifer, et al, Guide to Philadelphia Folklife Resources (1991) Roberts, John. From Hucklebuck to Hip Hop. (1995) Yin, Chamroeun, et. al. In My Heart I am a Dancer (1996) Kodish, Debora, ed. The Giant Never Wins: Cambodian lakhon bassac (folk opera) in Philadelphia. (1995) Plenty of Good Women Dancers (videotape) (1997) THE SCHREIBER JEWISH MUSIC LIBRARY Tyson Music Department ESTABLISHED: 1895 TELEPHONE: (215) 635-7300 ACCESS: Hours: RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, copying facilities, listening booths and piano. SERVICES: reference assistance available by appointment. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 2,800 78rpm and 3,000 LP discs, over 80,000 music books, sheet music, and reference publications. KEY COLLECTIONS: Eric Mandel collection; collections of Jewish music publishing houses that were destroyed in the Holocaust; Kutler Instrumental Collection. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLORE ARCHIVES 311-312 Logan Hall ESTABLISHED: 1963 TELEPHONE: (215) 898-7353 E-MAIL: Folklore@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU ACCESS: walk-in. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading table and desks, copying service provided, audio playback equipment available. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 195 published 78rpm, 3 published 45rpm, 314 LP discs, 25 published and 674 unpublished tape recordings, 3,960 ms. cards, 13 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 1,450 reference books and journals, 51 University of Pennsylvania student dissertations in folklore. KEY COLLECTIONS: MacEdward Leach collections; Jacob Elder collections; Emory Hamilton collection; Kenneth Goldstein collection; Samuel Bayard collection; American Folklore Society letters; extensive collections of Sri Lankan ritual and folk music; Newfoundland collection of folksong (largest outside of Canada); strengths in Pennsylvania, Caribbean, West Virginia, and Virginia folksong. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: They Say, monthly newsletter during academic year. RHODE ISLAND 20 Prospect Street / Box A 401-863-3723 ESTABLISHED: 1880s ACCESS: walk-in, present ID and sign in. Staff would prefer to book appointment to prepare for extended research visits. RESEARCH FACILITIES: card catalog, on-line catalog, and usual library facilities. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 30,000 broadsides, 2,000 78rpm and 2,000 LP discs, some cylinder recordings, 20,000 music books, 500,000 pieces of sheet music, 3,000 reference books and journals, substantial collections of ms. tune books. KEY COLLECTIONS: Yiddish-American music; pageants, including ms. music; sheet music of every American ethnic group including a great deal of Afro-American. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection, 1972, 13 vols.; supplement, 1977, 3 vols. Special Collections at Brown University: A History and Guide. (Providence: The Friends of the Library of Brown University), 1988. Catalog of Broadsides of American Verse in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. 5 vols. (Boston: G.K. Hall), 1986. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. THE JAMES T. KOETTING ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVE Orwig Music Library ESTABLISHED: 1988 TELEPHONE: (401) 863-3759 ACCESS: open by appointment RESEARCH FACILITIES: include reading room, photocopy machines, audio and visual equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance and archivist available. SIZE AND FORMAT: approximately 4,500 sound recordings, LPs, cassettes, CDs, 78rpm sound recordings; field materials. KEY COLLECTIONS: James Koetting field material in Sub-Saharan African music; William Sewall Marsh Collection of 78 rpm recordings of Latino-American music; Hunter Collection of Old- Time music; Jeff Titon Collection. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Titon, Jeff. Powerhouse for God, (University of Texas Press), 1988. RHODE ISLAND FOLKLIFE ARCHIVE Library of the Rhode Island Historical Society SOUTH DAKOTAGEORGE B. GERMAN MUSIC ARCHIVES Siouxland Heritage Museums ESTABLISHED: 1979 TELEPHONE: (605) 335-4210 ACCESS: write or call for appointment; access depends upon availability of supervisory personnel. RESEARCH FACILITIES: indexes, reference library, regional music files, songwriters' depository and informational file. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 300 broadsides, 2,500 78rpm, 150 45rpm, and 250 LP discs, 220 unpublished discs, 270 hours of tape recordings, 25 cylinder recordings, substantial number of ms. sheets, 65 photo prints, 26 videotapes, 19 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: regional music collection; regional songwriters; cowboy music. PRINTED INFORMATION: available free upon request. TENNESSEETENNESSEE RIVER FOLKLIFE CENTER ARCHIVE Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park ESTABLISHED: 1985 TELEPHONE: (901) 584-6356 ACCESS: come by the park office or folklife center to request material. RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalogs of slides and transcripts, audio- visual room for recording, listening, and observing. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100 tapes, 7 records, 50 ms. cards, 150 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 200 photo prints, 2,000 photo negatives, 2,000 slides, 3 videotapes, 75 ar- tifacts, a few reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: lower Tennessee River folk region, roughly from Pickwick Dam to Kentucky Dam; community-life artifacts; handcrafted commercial fishing equipment. ARCHIVES OF APPALACHIA The Sherrod Library ESTABLISHED: 1978 TELEPHONE: (615) 929-4338 ACCESS: all collections available to public; complete registration form and show ID. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, indexes and inventories to collections, audio and video playback equipment, photocopying facilities. SERVICES: reference assistance. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 102 linear feet of broadsides, ephemera, and maps, 2,748 audio tape recordings, 3,163 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 295 linear ft. of photo prints, 1,500 photo negatives, 1150 videotapes, 92 linear ft. of vertical files, 2,819 monographs. KEY COLLECTIONS: Tom Burton-Ambrose Manning collection; Broadside Television Records; Richard Blaustein collection (includes Old Time Radio Reunion Records); Burton-Headley Serpent Handling Collection; Charles Gunter collection; Charles Faulkner Bryan Papers, Appalachian Scottish Studies collection; Old Time Dance Conference Collection, Jack Tottle Bluegrass collection. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: A Guide to Audio and Video Recordings Available from the Archives of Appalachia, 1982. Archives of Appalachia Newsletter (published 3 times yearly). CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE ARCHIVES Box 40105 ESTABLISHED: 1972 TELEPHONE: (901) 726-4205 ACCESS: apply in writing to Center for Southern Folklore; notification of acceptance and explanation of use will be sent to prospective researcher. RESEARCH FACILITIES: files, audio-visual equipment. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 200 discs, 5 LP albums produced by center, 1,000 hours oftape, 20,000 photo prints, 40,000 photo negatives, 5,000 slides, 50,000 ft. of motion pictures, 100 hours videotape, artifactual collections of folk art, quilts, baskets, sculpture, and wooden work. KEY COLLECTIONS: Center for Southern Folklore field recordings, slides, and photographs; Reverend L. 0. Taylor film and photographic collection; Memphis Jewish community, 1900-1980; Historic Beale Street; Memphis music. COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION 4 Music Square East ESTABLISHED: 1967 TELEPHONE: (615) 256-1639 ACCESS: open by appointment RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machines, files, catalogs, audio and visual equipment. SIZE AND FORMAT: 150,000 sound recordings, 1,100 films, 2,500 videos, 35,000 photos, 7,000 books; 500 taped oral history interviews, 1,500 personality/topic files; monthly subscriptions to over 400 journals; various posters, scrapbooks and other ephemera. KEY COLLECTIONS: country music and related folk music. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Country: The Music and the Musicians, (Abbeville Press); reissue records on CMF Records PRINTED INFORMATION: brochure available at no charge. TENNESSEE STATE PARKS FOLKLIFE PROJECT Tennessee State Library and Archives ESTABLISHED: 1984 TELEPHONE: (615) 741-2764 ACCESS: address mail inquiries to Tennessee State Library and Archives, or walk-in. No telephone inquiries accepted. RESEARCH FACILITIES: audio equipment available, copies can be made on cassette tapes, duplication of photographs and slides can be arranged. Photocopies of documents can be made with some restrictions. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 800 unpublished tape recordings, 1,000 photo prints, 1,000 photo negatives, 1,000 slides, reference books and journals in the library collection. KEY COLLECTIONS: folklore collection concentrates on all phases of Tennessee folklife and culture; music includes blues, bluegrass, country, old-time, ballads, shape note singing. COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION LIBRARY AND MEDIA CENTER Country Music Foundation ESTABLISHED: 1967 TELEPHONE: (615) 256-1639 ACCESS: write or call head of reference for appointment; request will be evaluated. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, catalogs, files, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment. SERVICES: reference-assistance available; archival training provided. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 26,000 78rpm, 48,000 45rpm, and 20,000 LP discs, 2,000 reels of tape, 60 cylinder recordings, 40,000 photo images in print and negative formats, 1,000 reels of motion pictures, 750 videotapes, 6,000 reference books and journals, 15 linear ft. of sheet music, poster collection, 1,500 subjects in vertical files. KEY COLLECTIONS: country music. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. Box 41 ESTABLISHED: Spring 1986 TELEPHONE:(615) 898-2449 ACCESS: Public hours, Monday-Friday 1:00-4:00 p.m.; by appointment, Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.; admission free. RESEARCH FACILITIES: Listening and viewing stations, verticle files. SERVICES: The Center can perform audio restoration and film chain video transfer; Center provides photo archive print publication, and will perform research; fees for service. SIZE & FORMAT: 80,000 published sound recordings of popular music, all formats; 5,600 LPs cataloged on OCLC; 104 hours of music or music-related manuscript recordings; 50,000 items of sheet music (incl. 156 bound volumes), of which 85% are cataloged; 7093 iconographic items; extensive microforms, including 3,000 reels of microfilm; 40 linear feet of vertical files; miscellaneous posters. KEY COLLECTIONS: Extensive collection of 19th and 20th Century vernacular religious sheetmusic/hymnals; Goldstein collection of broadsides; Indianapolis Freeman newspaper collection; roots rock 'n roll, rhythm and blues, and honky tonk. PRINTED INFORMATION: Write for a free copy of information overview pamphlet about the Center. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Time-Life Music 3-CD box set of Civil War-era popular music; photo used for Chess/MCA Muddy Waters recording, One More Mile.
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