Finding Aids to Collections Organized by Topic in the Archive of Folk Culture

RECORDINGS MADE IN LOUISIANA AND BY SELECTED LOUISIANA PERFORMERS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE

Compiled by: Frederick J. Stielow
Series Editor: Ann Hoog

Publication Date: October 1981

Cyl 4478-5000 (AFS 18,472-18,473): Twenty-three cylinders recorded by Morris Swadesh, including Chitimacha Indian tales: Charenton, LA. 1931-1934.

AFS 11-43; 79-83; 85; 92; 95-216; 143; 173B; 206B; 242A3; 1852-1854: Seventy-nine discs recorded by John A. and Alan Lomax, including blues, Cajun, Creole, cowboy, prison, and religious songs and discussions: New Iberia, Kaplan, Crowley, Erath, White Oak, St. Martinville, Jennings, Lake Arthur, Amelia, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lloyd, New Orleans, and Angola, LA. 1933-1935.

AFS 44-54; 119-157; 236B3; 239A3-240; 250; 993-998; 2501-2504; 4469-4473; 4507B; 4508B; 6502-6503; 12,056; 12,419-12,430; 18,963: Seventy-seven discs of Huddie (Leadbelly) Ledbetter of Shreveport, LA, mostly recorded by John A. and Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle: Angola, Shreveport, LA; Wilton, CT; Tucker, AL; Washington, DC; Little Rock, Pine Bluff, AR; Pineville, KY; Atlanta, GA; New York, NY. 1933-1935, 1937-1938, 1940, 1942.

AFS 889-891; 893; 939; 944: Six discs recorded by John A. and Alan Lomax, including Creole, French, religious, and work songs: New Orleans, LA. 1937.

AFS 1638-1688; 2487-2489 (12,431-12,435; 14,606): Fifty-two discs of Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton of New Orleans, recorded by Alan Lomax, including music and discussion: Washington, DC. 1938.

AFS 2659-2661; 2663; 2665; 2667: Six discs recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax, including black, children's, hunting, and religious songs: Knight, Merryville, LA. 1939.

AFS 3119-3134: Fifteen discs recorded by Herbert Halpert, including French, Creole, voodoo songs: New Orleans, LA. 1939.

AFS 3989-4000: Twelve discs recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax, including blues, black, Creole, Cajun, and religious songs and discussion: Shreveport, New Roads, Oil City, Baton Rough, Winnfield, LA. 1940.

AFS 4427: One disc of Pineville, LA, spirituals, recorded by Alan Lomax and John Langenegger: Washington, DC. 1940.

AFS 6431-6432: Two discs of opinions in Louisiana concerning World War II, recorded for a radio program of the Office of Emergency Management. 1942.

AFS 9590-9595: Six discs recorded by William A. Owens, including Cajun and Creole songs: Southwestern LA. 1948 and before.

AFS 9853B: One disc of Cajun music and dancing, recorded at the National Folk Festival: Washington, DC. 1938.

AFS 10,942; 15,402: Two tapes of John Dubois of Kaplan, LA, including Cajun dance music and lullabies: Washington, DC; New York, NY. 1957 and 1973.

AFS 11,404; 12,575-12,584: One disc and ten tapes recorded by Harry Oster, including blues, Cajun, Creole, and religous music: Napoleonville, Scotland, Baton Rouge, LA. 1957-1966.

AFS 13,487: One tape interview of Papa Celestia, a black jazzman from New Orleans. 1968.

AFS 13,681-13,702: Twenty-two tapes recorded by Ralph Rinzler, including Cajun and Creole songs and discussion: Ville Platte, Abbeville, Opelousas, Basile, Mantou, Crowley, LA; Newport Folk Festival, RI. 1964-1966.

AFS 14,488-14,512: Twenty-four tapes recorded by David Evans of Southern blues and spirituals: Clifton, Bogalusa, New Orleans, LA; also MS and GA. 1970.

AFS 16,984-16,994: Eleven tapes of fiddling in various states, recorded by Chris Delaney, including Cajun music played by Dewey Balfa: Basile, LA. 1973.

AFS 17,111; 19,851-19,854; 19,856A; 19,858; 19,865B; 19,866; 19,868: Ten tapes made at the National Folk Festival, including Cajun and Creole songs: Vienna, VA. 1972.

AFS 17,473: One disc of the Jolly Boys of Lafayette, LA, recorded by Decca Records: New Orleans. 1937.

AFS 17,568-17,571; 17,577-17,583; 17,585-17,588; 17,589-17,593; 17,624-17,626; 17,636-17,673; 19,732: Twenty-six tapes recorded by Richard K. Spottswood, including Cajun and Creole music and comments: Abbeville, Rayne, Delcambre, Eunice, Chatagnier, Ville Platte, LA; Tuscon, AZ. 1975-1976.

AFS 18,955: One tape of the Balfa Brothers, recorded by David Holt, including Creole and Cajun tunes: Eunice, LA; Asheville, NC. 1976.

AFS 19,373: One tape "letter" from S. D. (Sady) Courville, including Cajun music and comments: Eunice, LA. 1978.

AFS 19,445: One tape of Roy Beckman and Willie May Deason, recorded by Nicholas Spitzer and Susan Roach: Hico, LA. 1979.

AFS 19,603; 19,606; 19,611-19,613: Five discs from the Country Music Foundation and Columbia Records, including Cajun and Creole recordings. 1920's-1930's.

AFS 19,874-19,877: Four tapes recorded by Ralph Rinzler and Claudie Marcel-DuBois, including Cajun and Creole music and discussion: Port Sulpher, Diamond, Eunice, Lawtell, Mamou, LA. 1973.

AFS 20,504-20,507: Four tapes duplicated from cylinders made by Joseph M. Carrière, including French songs: St. Martinville, LA; MO. 1934.