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Finding Aids to Collections Organized by Topic in the Archive of Folk Culture
NEW YORK COLLECTIONS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE
Acquired
through 2000
Compiled by: Rhona Campbell, Mary Cordaro, J. Lester Feder,
and Laurel McIntyre
with assistance from Carrie Berard Series Editor: Ann Hoog
Publication Date:
July 2004 Series Number: LCFAFA No. 38
ISSN 0736-4903
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All indications of time duration listed in this finding aid are estimates.
Sound Recordings and Multiformat Collections
AFS 1616-1637: Alan Lomax 1938 Library of Congress Sessions Collection Twenty-two 12-inch discs of songs
performed by Barbara Bell, Ernest Bourne, W.C. Handy, Alan Lomax,
Bess Brown Lomax, the Resettlement Administration Singers, the
Rindlisbacher Lumberjack Group, Earl Robinson, the Skyline Farm
Singers, and Blaine Stubblefield. Recorded primarily in Washington,
D.C., at the Library of Congress, by Alan Lomax, 1937-38. The collection
includes eight pages of notes.
AFS 1626-1628A: Three discs containing five
songs sung by Earl Robinson of New York City. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., at the Library of Congress, by Alan Lomax, May 17, 1938.
(Twelve minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 118B)
AFS 1939-1950A2;1951-1953: Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle Collection Fifteen 10-inch discs
of songs sung by Jim Garland, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gelder, Aunt Molly
Jackson, and Sarah Ogan. Recorded in New York City by Alan Lomax,
November 13, 1937. (One hour and thirty minutes; tape copy on LWO
4872 reels 136-137A)
AFC 1939/008: John Hammond and Alan Lomax / Jazz Recordings of Musicians Who Performed at Carnegie Hall
Eleven 12-inch discs of twenty-four
songs and stories played, sung, and spoken by Albert Ammons, James
P. Johnson, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, and Sa[u]nders (Sonny
Terry) Terrell. Recorded in New York City by Alan Lomax, December
24, 1938, through the courtesy of John Hammond. (Two hours and
six minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 159B-160) (Includes AFS 2490-2500)
AFC 1939/011: Captain Richard Maitland / Sea shanties
Nineteen 12-inch discs of thirty-six
sea shanties sung by Captain Richard Maitland. Recorded at Sailors
Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York City, by Alan Lomax, May 1939.
The collection includes one-eighth linear inch of correspondence
and notes. (Two hours; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 161B-162) (Includes AFS 2515-2533)
AFS 2534-2588; 3335-3341: Sixty-two 12-inch discs
of one hundred songs and stories sung and spoken by Aunt Molly
Jackson of Clay County, Kentucky. Recorded in New York City by
Alan Lomax, May 1939. (Seven hours and forty minutes; tape copy
on LWO 4872 reels 162B-166A; 219)
AFS 4556-4627; 8042-8105: One hundred thirty-six
12-inch discs of Iroquoian songs sung by Billy and George Buck,
Simeon Gibson, Cha[u]ncey and Richard Johnny John, and Chief Joseph
Logan. Recorded on the Allegheny Reservation, New York, and Six
Nations Reserve, Ontario, by William N. Fenton, January-February
1941. The collection includes three-fourths linear inch of notes.
Portions of this collection have been published by the Library
of Congress on recording number AFS L6, Songs from the Iroquois
Longhouse and L17, Seneca Songs from the Coldspring Longhouse.
(Twenty hours and thirty minutes; tape copies on LWO 4872 reels
318-323A, LWO 5111 reels 82B-87)
AFS 5028-5034: Seven 12-inch discs of fiddle
tunes and songs recorded in New Jersey and New York by Robert Sonkin
and Charles Todd, June 13-26, 1941. The collection includes eight
pages of fieldnotes and logs.
AFS 5028-5033: Six discs containing five fiddle
tunes and thirty songs recorded at various locations in New York,
June 13-17, 1941. (Thirty-six minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872
reel 358B)
AFS 6100-6105: 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 6100-6103; 6105: Five discs containing
eleven songs sung by the Almanac Singers and Earl Robinson of
New York City. (Twenty-eight minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reels
40B-41A)
AFS 6177: 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. (Six minutes;
tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 400B)
AFS 6180-6181: Two 16-inch discs of five songs
sung by Judge Learned Hand of Essex County, New York. Recorded
in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress, by John Langenegger
and Arthur D. Semmig, October 3, 1942. The collection includes
two pages of song lists. Two of the songs in this collection have
been published by the Library of Congress on recording number AFS
L29, Songs and Ballads of American History and the Assassination
of Presidents, and one song has been published on A Treasury
of Library of Congress Field Recordings (Rounder CD 1500).
(Twelve minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 400B-401A)
AFS 6496-6501: Six 12-inch discs of four Armenian,
one Mexican, and three Russian songs recorded in New York City
by Seamus Doyle and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mitchell, 1941. The collection
includes one-fourth linear inch of correspondence and textual transcriptions.
(Forty-four minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 414)
AFS 6566-6603: 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. (Five hours and ten
minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reels 47B-50A)
AFS 7083-7091: Nine 10-inch discs of tales from
the Hudson River and Mohawk Valley areas of New York spoken in
Albany Dutch. Recorded by L.G. Van Loon sometime before November
1943. The collection includes a one-page recording log. (One hour
and eighteen minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 7)
AFS 7317: One 16-inch disc of Chinese instrumentals
and songs played on the "moon harp" and sung by Helen
and Virginia Moshang of New York City. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., at the Library of Congress, by Benjamin A. Botkin, Rae Korson,
John Langenegger, and Arthur Semmig, August 26, 1943. The collection
includes two pages of correspondence and a song list. (Fifteen
minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 28B)
AFS 7754-7763: Three 10-inch and seven 12-inch
discs of songs performed at the Fifth Annual Catskills Folk Festival.
Recorded at Camp Woodland, Phoenicia, New York, by Charles Hofmann
and Benjamin A. Botkin, August 5, 1944. The collection includes
three pages of logs. (One hour and thirty minutes; tape copy on
LWO 5111 reels 63B-64A)
AFS 8900-8911: Twelve 16-inch discs of Hopi,
Iroquois, Menominee, and Winnebago Indian songs and spoken word.
Originally recorded on wax cylinders loaned by the Milwaukee Public
Museum. The collection includes one-eighth linear inch of correspondence
and logs.
AFS 8906A1-3: One disc containing Iroquoian
spoken word recorded possibly by Samuel A. Barrett in western
New York or Ontario. (Seven minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel
160A)
AFS 8929: 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. (Fifteen minutes;
tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 166A)
AFS 9076-9098: Twenty-three 12-inch discs of
instrumentals and songs recorded in New York City by Chris Bonet
and Charles Hofmann, May 30-October 28, 1947, for the Library of
Congress and the New York Public Library. Included are thirty allegedly "Comanche
Indian songs," twenty-eight songs in the English language
(including fourteen from Scotland and eight African American songs
and street cries), five songs in French, seventeen in Spanish,
and thirty in Yiddish. Performers include Tom Glazer and Ruth Rubin.
The collection includes one-eighth linear inch of correspondence,
logs, notes, reports, and song texts. (Three hours and eighteen
minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reels 180B-182A)
AFS 9168-9169: Two 16-inch discs of ten sea songs
sung by Captain Patrick Tayluer. Recorded in New York City by William
M. Doerflinger, spring 1942. (Forty minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111
reel 197)
AFS 9174-9186: Thirteen 16-inch discs of instrumentals,
songs, square dance calls, and stories performed by Wardell J.
Martin and Frank Warner. Recorded in Cooperstown, New York, by
Louis C. Jones, 1948. The collection includes one-half linear inch
of correspondence, logs, notes, and a press release. (Four hours
and thirty-two minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reels 198-200)
AFS 9596-9600: Five 16-inch discs of thirty-five
Iroquoian songs duplicated from originals at the Rochester Museum
of Arts and Sciences, New York, as part of the William N. Fenton
Project, 1948. (Two hours; tape copy on LWO 5111 reels 244-245A)
AFS 9829-9868: One 12-inch and thirty-nine 16-inch
discs of instrumentals, radio programs, and songs. Recorded primarily
at the National Folk Festival in Washington, D.C., by the U.S.
Recording Company, May 6-8, 1938. The collection includes three-fourths
linear inch of song lists, newspaper articles, and programs.
AFS 9854B4-6; 9857A; 9860B: Three 16-inch discs
containing a demonstration, a lecture, and eight instrumentals
performed on bamboo pipes by members of the Pipers' Guild of
New York City, and a dance performed with piano by a group from
Union Settlement of New York City. (One hour and fifteen minutes;
tape copy on LWO 5111 reels 269-270B)
AFS 9963-9973: Eleven 7-inch tapes of Iroquoian
songs recorded in New York and on the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario,
by William M. Fenton, 1948. (Five hours and thirty minutes; LWO
1251; tape copy on LWO 5111 reels 283-1 through 283-3)
AFS 10,501-10,506; 11,712-11,719: Fourteen 10-inch
tapes of instrumentals and songs recorded at various locations
throughout the United States, including New York, by Sam Eskin,
1940-53. The collection includes one-fourth linear inch of correspondence,
one-half linear inch of song lists and notes. (Twenty-eight hours;
LWO 1923; 2995)
AFS 10,515-10,744: Two hundred thirty 16-inch
discs of mostly North American Indian songs originally recorded
on cylinders at various locations primarily by Frances Densmore,
1907-36, for the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.
Transferred from the National Archives, 1948. The collection includes
two linear inches of notes.
AFS 10,725A7: One disc containing five Iroquoian
songs sung by J.N.B. Hewitt (Tuscarora). Originally recorded
on wax cylinders by Frances Densmore in Washington, D.C., 1932.
(Six minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 347B)
AFS 10,898: One 10-inch tape of prayers and tribal
songs sung by Chiefs Frank Johnson and James Thompson of Mohawk
Longhouse, Rooseveltown, New York. Recorded in Washington, D.C.,
at the Library of Congress, July 19, 1954. The collection includes
three pages of correspondence and notes. (One hour; LWO 2243)
AFS 11,307-11,309; 11,334-11,444: Fourteen 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.
AFS 11,308B19-23: One tape containing five
songs sung by the congregation of the Shady Methodist Church.
Recorded in Shady, New York, August 1952. (Twenty minutes; LWO
2496 reel 2B)
AFS 11,688-11,690: Three 10-inch tapes of songs
recorded in New York and Pennsylvania by Frank A. Hoffmann, August
17-26, 1959. The collection includes thirty pages of correspondence
and song lists.
AFS 11,689B13-11,690: Two tapes containing
twenty songs sung by Ezra Barhight, originally of northeastern
Pennsylvania. Recorded in Niel's Creek, New York, August 17,
1959. (One hour; LWO 2862 reel 2B)
AFS 11,712-11,719: Eight 10-inch tapes of instrumentals
and songs recorded at various locations throughout the United States
by Sam Eskin in the 1940s.
AFS 11,714A18, B10-17: One tape containing
nine Sicilian songs sung with guitar by Remo Farruggio, Jr. and
Sr. Recorded in New York City, November 27 and December 10, 1947.
(Thirty-five minutes; LWO 2995 reel 3B)
AFS 12,309-12,312: 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. (Eight hours; LWO 4600)
AFS 12,365-12,373: Nine 10-inch tapes of songs
of European Jewish immigrants. Originally recorded on wire in New
York City by Benjamin Stonehill, 1948. The collection includes
one-eighth linear inch of song lists and notes. (Eighteen hours;
LWO 4746)
AFS 13,052: One 3-inch tape of a Shinnecock Indian
lullaby sung by Gladys Cuffey Collins (Princess Wyandanch). Recorded
in Sag Harbor, New York, by Dennis Starin, June 1966. The collection
includes nine pages of an arrangement with English lyrics, correspondence,
a newspaper article, and a transcription. (Two minutes; LWO 5056)
AFS 13,113-13,115: Three 16-inch discs of instrumentals
and songs played on plucked dulcimer and sung by Elizabeth Wilson
of New York City. Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the Library
of Congress, June 3, 1946. The collection includes two pages of
engineer's notes and a one-page list. (Forty minutes; tape copy
on LWO 5111 reel 423A)
AFS 13,504-13,553; 14,516-14,555; 14,665-14,695: One
hundred twenty-one 7-inch tapes of primarily Yiddish anecdotes,
interviews, prayers, songs, and stories. Recorded in Camp Solomon,
New York; London; Montreal; New York City; Tel Aviv; Toronto; and
Warsaw by Ruth Rubin, 1947-67; and in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
by Norman Cazden, 1954-56. The collection includes two and one-half
linear inches of correspondence, concordances, recording logs,
and notes.
AFS 13,504-13,553: Fifty tapes containing primarily
interviews and Yiddish songs, recorded 1947-64. Included are
Chassidic songs, children's game songs, love songs, miscellaneous
songs, and a conversation with Daniel Lipkovitch about his childhood
in Warsaw. Sixty percent of the recordings are from the following
locations in New York: Lake Charles, New York City, Patterson
(at Camp Solomon), and Shrub Oak. (Twenty-five hours; LWO 5679)
AFS 14,516-14,555: Forty tapes containing primarily
interviews and Yiddish songs, recorded 1947-67. Included are
stories, personal memories of childhoods in Eastern Europe and
the former U.S.S.R., Hebrew prayers, and miscellaneous songs.
Notable song subjects include dance songs, marriage songs, humorous
songs, songs of Slavic origin, and songs for Pesakh. Seventy-five
percent of the recordings are from New York City. (Twenty hours;
LWO 6514)
AFS 14,665-14,695: Thirty-one tapes containing
primarily interviews and Yiddish songs, recorded 1947-67. Included
are group conversations exemplifying Jewish humor, interviews
with noted New York artist Mr. Ben-Zion and author Bashevis Singer,
Yiddish songs sung by American children, and songs on miscellaneous
subjects. Eighty percent of the recordings are from New York
City. (Sixteen hours and thirty minutes; LWO 6855)
AFS 14,204-14,216: Thirteen 10-inch tapes of
children's games and rhymes, instrumentals, recitations, songs,
and stories. Recorded in Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, New Brunswick,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Vermont by Henry Felt,
Lee B. Haggerty, and Sandy Paton primarily for Folk-Legacy Records,
January 1962-May 23, 1969. The collection includes one-half linear
inch of correspondence and logs.
AFS 14,216A: One tape containing twenty-two
songs sung by girls from Brooklyn, Harlem, and Manhattan, New
York City. Recorded at the Community of Performing Arts Youth
Project of Vermont camp, Ripton, Vermont, by Sandy Paton, July
1968. (Twenty minutes; LWO 6042 reel 13A)
AFS 14,270-14,271: Two 7-inch tapes of an interview
and nineteen instrumentals played on fiddle by Ed McDermott, who
immigrated to New York City from County Leitrim, Ireland, in 1915.
Recorded in Washington, D.C., by Alan Jabbour, October 4, 1970.
The collection includes six pages of song lists and notes. (One
hour; LWO 6125)
AFS 14,272: One 10-inch tape of an interview
and twenty-three instrumentals played on fiddle by Ed McDermott,
who immigrated to New York City from County Leitrim, Ireland, in
1915. Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress,
by Gary A. Henderson, John E. Howell, and Alan Jabbour, October
5, 1970. The collection includes two pages of song lists and notes.
(One hour; LWO 6126)
AFS 14,479-14,480: Two 7-inch tapes of interviews
and instrumentals played on fiddle by Ed McDermott, who immigrated
to New York City from County Leitrim, Ireland, in 1915. Recorded
in Middletown, New Jersey, by Lani Herrmann, 1968-70. The collection
includes one and one-half linear inch of correspondence, song lists,
transcriptions, and a newspaper article. (Two hours; LWO 6470)
AFS 14,631-14,635: Five 10-inch tapes of games,
poems, rhymes, and songs recorded primarily in southern Vermont
by Margaret MacArthur, 1961-68. The collection includes one-half
linear inch of content lists, poems or rhymes, notes, recording
logs, and textual transcriptions.
AFS 14,633A: One tape containing children's
clapping games, rhymes, and songs recorded at the Heldeberg Workshop,
Voorheesville, New York, August 1965. (Eight minutes; LWO 6595
reel 3A)
AFS 14,649: One 7-inch tape of Irish instrumentals
played on fiddle by Daniel Collins, accompanied on piano by Alan
Jabbour. Recorded in The Bronx, New York City, by Alan Jabbour,
February 19, 1972. The collection includes a one-page recording
log. (Thirty minutes; LWO 6792)
AFS 14,653-14,661: 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. (Eighteen hours; LWO 6791)
AFS 14,697: 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. (One hour; LWO 6793)
AFS 14,698-14,721: Twenty-four 10-inch tapes
of Seneca social dance songs recorded at the Allegheny Reservation,
New York, by Dorothy Gaus, 1962-63. The collection includes one
linear inch of notes. (Forty-eight hours; LWO 6801)
AFS 14,755-14,761: Seven 10-inch tapes of two
hundred and six songs and stories, sung and spoken, primarily by
Sara Cleveland of Brant Lake, New York. Recorded in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, by Kenneth S. Goldstein, March 9-April 7, 1968. The
collection includes one-fourth linear inch of a concordance and
recording logs. (Fourteen hours; LWO 6898)
AFS 16,980: One 10-inch tape of an interview
with May Gadd, Director-Emerita of the Country Dance and Song Society
of America of New York City. Recorded at Pinewoods Camp, Buzzard's
Bay, Massachusetts, by Joseph C. Hickerson, August 22-23, 1973.
(Two hours; LWO 7589)
AFS 17,020: 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.
AFS 17,020A1-14; B1: One tape containing fifteen
folk tales and belief stories spoken by Sara Cleveland. Recorded
in Brant Lake, New York, by Kenneth S. Goldstein, March 1968.
(One hour; LWO 7861)
AFS 17,032-17,050: Nineteen 10-inch tapes of
stories and oral histories spoken by Floyd Salisbury. Recorded
in and around Deposit, New York, by Gerald E. Parsons, 1969-73.
The collection includes one-eighth linear inch of indexes and notes.
(Seventy-six hours; LWO 7872)
AFS 17,053-17,104: Fifty-two 7-inch tapes of
announcements, instrumentals, songs, and stories performed at the
Fox Hollow Folk Festival. Recorded in Petersburg, New York, by
John R. Dildine and others, August 1967. The collection includes
one-eighth linear inch of song lists and notes. (Twenty-six hours;
LWO 7850)
AFS 17,404-17,439; 17,487-17,494: Forty-four
7-inch tapes of announcements, instrumentals, songs, and stories
performed at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival. Recorded in Petersburg,
New York, by John R. Dildine and others, August 1969. The collection
includes one-eighth linear inch of song lists and notes. (Twenty-two
hours; LWO 8189)
AFS 17,443: One 16-inch disc of songs and speeches
involving Louis C. Jones and former pupils and teachers recorded
at the one-room schoolhouse at the Farmers Museum, Cooperstown,
New York, September 19, 1948. The collection includes two pages
of notes. (Thirty minutes; tape copy on LWO 8206 reel 6A)
AFS 17,471: One 10-inch tape of one blues song
sung with piano by Wilbert "Big Chief" Ellis. Originally
recorded on a disc in New York City, 1948. The collection includes
seven pages of articles, correspondence, and an essay. (Four minutes;
LWO 8239)
AFS 17,484: One 7-inch tape of thirteen religious
songs sung by the Ole Smoke Seneca Singers. Recorded at the Native
American Bible Church, Tonawanda Reservation, Basom, New York,
by Merritt F. Malvern, September 22, 1974. The collection includes
three pages of correspondence and song lists. (Forty-three minutes;
LWO 8359)
AFS 17,541-17,567: Twenty-seven 10-inch tapes
of blues, country, fiddle, gospel, and other music recorded in
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire,
New York, North Carolina, and Scotland primarily by Art Rosenbaum,
June 4, 1958-September 19, 1971. The collection includes three-fourths
linear inch of correspondence and recording logs.
AFS 17,545-17,546: Two tapes containing fifty-one
songs sung by Mary McBride Heekin, recorded in New York City
by Art Rosenbaum, April 14, 1962, and May 26, 1963. (Three hours;
LWO 8487 reels 5-6)
AFS 17,600: One 10-inch tape of fourteen songs
sung by Daniel N. Adams, Michael Foley, Gerald E. Parsons, and
David Petzal, for the Goya Guitar Company College Folksinging Contest.
Recorded at WRCU, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, May 25
and 27, 1961. The collection includes four pages of song lists.
(One hour; LWO 7889)
AFS 17,647-17,768; 18,762-18,799: One 3-inch
tape, one hundred and thirty-eight 7-inch tapes, and twenty-one
10-inch tapes of "World of Folk Music" radio programs
hosted and donated by Lionel Kilberg. Recorded primarily at WNCN-FM,
New York City, November 16, 1957-January 2, 1965. The collection
includes twenty pages of logs. (Ninety hours and fifteen minutes;
LWO 8634; 9113)
AFS 17,770-17,968: One hundred and ninety 10-inch
and 12-inch discs, one 5-inch tape, and eight 7-inch tapes of radio
programs and home recordings from the 1930s and 1950s recorded
in New York City by members of the American Square Dance Group;
songs and instrumentals played on banjo and fiddle, recorded in
Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee by Margot Mayo and others,
1946-47. The collection includes three-quarters linear inch of
a concordance, logs, notes, a magazine article, and photographs.
AFS 17,770-17,869: One hundred discs containing
primarily radio programs recorded in New York City by members
of the American Square Dance Group. (Twelve hours and thirty
minutes; tape copy on LWO 8921-8927A)
AFS 17,996-17,998: Three 10-inch tapes of fiddle
music by Ralph Aldous, Arley Leonard, and Avery St. Louis. Recorded
in the Canton, New York, area by Bill Thatcher, 1975. The collection
includes three-eighths linear inch of correspondence, an essay,
and transcriptions. (Five hours; LWO 8831)
AFS 18,004-18,050: One 10-inch, forty-four 7-inch,
and two 5-inch tapes of announcements, instrumentals, songs, and
stories performed at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival. Recorded in
Petersburg, New York, by John R. Dildine and others, August 1968.
The collection includes eighteen pages of recording logs. (Twenty-four
hours and thirty minutes; LWO 8658, 8860)
AFS 18,053-18,058: Six 10-inch tapes of Yiddish
and international songs recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Cincinnati,
Ohio; Denver, Colorado; New York, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
and West Orange, New Jersey, by Jack Manischewitz, 1957-61. The
collection includes twelve pages of recording logs and notes.
AFS 18,056A1-2: One tape containing "Emik
Yeesroel" and "Hamavdil" sung by Sara Manischewitz,
recorded in New York City, 1960. (Five minutes; LWO 8692 reel
4A)
AFS 19,235: 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. (One hour; LWO 9970)
AFS 19,250-19,252; 19,392-19,396; 20,521-20,523: Eleven
10-inch tapes of announcements, instrumentals, songs, and stories
recorded at the Catskill Folk Festival, Andes, New York, by Norman
Cazden, August 13-14, 1977; August 12-13, 1978; and August 11-12,
1979. The collection includes one-quarter linear inch of a concordance,
correspondence, recording logs, and notes. (Twenty hours and thirty
minutes; LWO 12,001; 12,902; 16,815)
AFS 19,253-19,256: Four 7-inch tapes of ninety-six
Hebrew and Israeli songs from the United States, Europe, Israel,
and Palestine sung by Ruth Rubin and others. Recorded primarily
by Ruth Rubin in New York City, 1947-67. The collection includes
thirteen pages of correspondence, content lists, and notes. (Five
hours; LWO 12,459)
AFS 19,268-19,280; 21,988-22,050; 22,051-22,062: Eighty-eight
10-inch tapes of instrumentals, recitations, and songs originally
recorded on wax cylinders, discs, and tapes primarily in New England
(especially Vermont) by Helen Hartness Flanders and others, 1931-58.
Obtained on exchange from the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
of Middlebury College. The collection includes seven and three-fourths
linear inches of catalogs, concordances, correspondence, indexes,
and notes.
AFS 22,006A2-18, 21-22; 22,007B9-10: Two tapes
containing sixteen songs sung by Lily Delorme of Cadysville,
New York. Recorded December 4, 1941. (One hour and ten minutes;
LWO 12,301 reels 19A, 20B)
AFS 22,013B17-22,014A; 22,015A10-20: Three
tapes containing twenty-one songs sung by Thomas Armstrong of
Mooers Forks, New York; two songs sung by Thomas Armstrong and
Miss Davidson of Mooers Forks, New York; twenty-two songs sung
by Lily Delorme of Cadysville, New York; two songs sung by J.J.
Downs of Westboro, New York; and one recitation spoken by Charles
Harkness of Harkness, New York. Recorded June 17-24, 1942. (Two
hours; LWO 12,301 reels 26B, 27A, 28A)
AFS 22,025B1-19: One tape containing sixteen
songs and three fragments of songs sung by Lily Delorme of Cadysville,
New York. Recorded August 16, 1943. (Fifty minutes; LWO 12,301
reel 38B)
AFS 22,027B5-22,028A5, B1-11, 19-20; 22,030B14: Three
tapes containing nine songs sung by Thomas Armstrong; two songs
sung by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Armstrong of Mooers Forks, New York;
eighteen songs and five fragments of songs sung by Lily Delorme
of Cadysville, New York; and one song sung by J. J. Downs of
West Peru, New York. Recorded August 28-29 and December 1944.
(One hour and forty minutes; LWO 12,301 reels 40B, 41, 43B)
AFS 22,056B14-29: One tape containing sixteen
songs sung by Thomas Armstrong of Mooers Forks. Recorded in Northport,
New York, February 16, 1935. (Thirty-four minutes; LWO 12,254
reel 6B)
AFS: 22,058A4: One tape containing one song
sung by Miss Rayner of New York City. Recorded in Springfield,
Vermont, 1939. (Two minutes; LWO 12,254 reel 8A)
AFS 19,359: One 10-inch tape of an interview
with Herbert Halpert regarding his experiences collecting folklore
for the WPA in New York City and elsewhere. Conducted by Peggy
Farber, Debora Kodish, and Gerald E. Parsons, and recorded in Washington,
D.C., at the Library of Congress, November 17, 1978. The collection
includes six pages of content lists and notes. (One hour; LWO 12,530).
See also AFC 1938/002.
AFS 19,361: One 10-inch tape of five songs and
a story sung and spoken by Edmund Seymour. Originally recorded
on discs in New York City by Tony Kraber, March 1941, and loaned
by Mr. Seymour's grandson, John S. Patterson. The collection includes
four pages of a song list and articles. (Seventeen minutes; LWO
7886)
AFS 19,364: One audiocassette of fourteen songs
sung with guitar by Lawrence Older of Middle Grove, New York. Recorded
on an unknown date. The collection includes a one-page song list.
(Forty-five minutes; LWO 12,898)
AFS 19,517-19,525: 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.
AFS 19,521A2: One tape containing seven fiddle
tunes played by Grant Rogers of Walton, New York, July 23, 1977.
(Thirty minutes; LWO 12,892 reel 5A)
AFS 19,524A2: One tape containing five songs
sung by Sara Cleveland of Brant Lake, New York, July 23, 1977.
(Thirty minutes; LWO 12,982 reel 8A)
AFS 19,799-19,815: Sixteen 5-inch and one 7-inch
tapes of an oral history interview regarding the urban folksong
revival with Israel G. Young, founder of the Folklore Center in
New York City. Recorded by Richard A. Reuss, July 8, 1965-March
26, 1969. The collection includes five pages of content lists and
notes. (Eighteen hours; LWO 15,594)
AFS 20,111: 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. (Thirty-seven minutes; RYA
4)
AFS 22,104-22,136: Thirty-three 10-inch tapes
of conversations, instrumentals, songs, and stories recorded in
the Adirondack region of New York by Marjorie Lansing Porter, 1943-67.
Obtained through loan from the State University of New York at
Plattsburgh. The collection includes one and one-half linear inches
of recording logs, correspondence, concordances, and notes. (Sixty-six
hours; RWA 2671-2703)
AFS 22,472: 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. (One hour; RXA 4032)
AFS 22,492: 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. (Five
minutes)
AFS 23,019-23,155: Two 5-inch tapes, eighteen
7-inch tapes, and one hundred and seventeen audiocassettes of ethnic
radio broadcasts recorded for the Ethnic Broadcasting in America
Project of the American Folklife Center. Recorded mostly off the
air by Elena Bradunas, Theodore Grame, Alan Jabbour, and others
at various locations in the United States, 1977-78. Documentation
includes Theodore Grame's Ethnic Broadcasting in the United
States (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, 1980),
nine and a half linear inches of correspondence, manuscript materials,
and tape logs.
AFS 23,053: One audiocassette containing a
Dominican program broadcast on WADO, New York City, May 24, 1978.
(One hour; RYA 2918)
AFS 23,066-23,068: Three audiocassettes containing
Italian, Jewish, and Portuguese programs broadcast on WEVD, New
York City, March 20 and May 26, 1978. (Three hours; RYA 2925-2927)
AFS 23,070: One audiocassette containing a
Hindu program broadcast on WFUV, New York City, May 28, 1978.
(Thirty minutes; RYA 2929)
AFS 23,071-23,080: Ten audiocassettes containing
Albanian, Armenian, East Indian, Ecuadoran, Greek, Hungarian,
Iranian, Jewish, Korean, Norwegian, Rumanian, Serbian, Swedish,
Turkish, and Yugoslav programs broadcast on WHBI, New York City,
March 7-19, 1978. (Nine hours and thirty minutes; RYA 2930-2939)
AFS 23,091-23,092: Two audiocassettes containing
Chinese and Haitian programs broadcast on WKCR, New York City,
May 27-28, 1978. (Two hours; RYA 2949-2950)
AFS 23,093: One audiocassette containing a
West Indian program broadcast on WLIB, New York City, May 29,
1978. (One hour; RYA 2951)
AFS 23,116-23,117: Two audiocassettes containing
Polish and Ukrainian programs broadcast on WPOW, New York City,
May 26, 1978. (Two hours; RYA 2973-2974)
AFS 23,183-23,184: 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.
AFS 23,183A1-3, 12-16, 20-23, 26-28; 23,183B1-3, 5,
10-21, 24; 23,184A1-2: Two tapes containing thirty-four
songs sung by Richard Maitland and others. Recorded at Sailor's
Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York City. (One hour and twenty-six
minutes; RWA 8407-8408A)
AFS 23,183A17-19: One tape containing three
songs sung by William Laurie. Recorded at Sailor's Snug Harbor,
Staten Island, New York City. (Six minutes; RWA 8407A)
AFS 23,183A24; 23,183B4, 6, 22-23: Two tapes
containing five songs sung by John O'Brien and others. Recorded
at Sailor's Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York City. (Fourteen
minutes; RWA 8407)
AFS 23,183A25: One tape containing a song sung
by Harry Steele and others. Recorded at Sailor's Snug Harbor,
Staten Island, New York City. (Two minutes; RWA 8407A).
AFC 1938/002: Thirty-eight 12-inch discs of two
hundred thirty-five various folk songs including spirituals, farming
and labor songs, war songs, drinking songs, children’s songs,
taunts, lullabies, and love songs, recorded for the Federal Theatre
Project in New York City, Ramapo, and Sloatsburg, New York, by
Herbert Halpert, January 19, 1938-November 1939. The collection
includes three-eighths of a linear inch of correspondence, 13 pages
of recording logs and notes, and 25 pages of textual transcriptions.
(Four hours and fifty minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 234B-238A).
See also: AFS 19,359.
AFC 1941/004: Five 16-inch and twelve 12-inch
discs of interviews from Washington, D.C., Bloomington, Indiana;
Nashville, Tennessee; Burlington, North Carolina; New York, New
York; and Austin and Dallas, Texas, documenting the reactions of
the "man-on-the-street" to the bombing of Pearl Harbor
and declaration of war. Recorded by Robert E. Barton Allen, Philip
Cohen, Fletcher Collins, John Henry Faulk, Charles T. Harrell,
Charles Johnson, Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Robert Sonkin, and
Charles Todd, December 8-10, 1941. Recorded as part of the Library
of Congress Radio Research Project. The collection includes one
linear inch of logs and transcripts. This collection is available
online as part of the Library of Congress American Memory Presentation: After
the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following
the Attack on Pearl Harbor .
AFS 6362-6364: Three discs containing twenty-two
interviews and statements concerning the war, recorded in New
York City by Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd, December 8, 1941.
(Forty-five minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 407A)
AFS 6454: One disc containing four interviews,
recorded at WBEN, Buffalo, New York, by Charles Harrell, December
10, 1941. (Thirty minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reel 45B)
AFC 1942/003: Four 16-inch, forty-eight 12-inch,
and three 8-inch discs of recorded reactions to war-time conditions
in the United States. Recorded in various locations throughout
the United States, 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, 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. This
collection is available online as part of the Library of Congress
American Memory Presentation: After
the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following
the Attack on Pearl Harbor .
AFS 6407: One disc containing the songs "President
Roosevelt" and "We’re Gonna Take Hitler Down" performed
by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter. Recorded in New
York City by Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd, January 20, 1942.
(Ten minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reel 42B)
AFS 6408A; B3: One disc containing the songs "Dear
Mr. President" and "The Martins and the Coys" sung
by Pete Seeger under the pseudonym Pete Bowers. Recorded in New
York City by Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd, January 1942. (Six
minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reel 42B-43A)
AFS 6408B1-2; 6409-6414: Seven discs containing
twenty statements by various people concerning the war. Recorded
in New York City by Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd, January 1942.
(Fifty-one minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reel 43A)
AFC 1950/001: One 16-inch disc of an "intermission
program" 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.
(Fifteen minutes; tape copy on LWO 5395 reel 4B)
AFC 1950/002: Thirty-three 6 ½ -inch discs,
twenty-one 8-inch discs, fifty-one 10-inch discs, two 5-inch tapes,
and seven 7-inch tapes of American songs, ballads, instrumentals,
interviews, and stories. Recorded in Illinois, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia by Anne
and Frank M. Warner, 1938-1969. The collection includes twenty-five
black-and-white photographs, nineteen black-and-white negatives,
and three-sixteenths linear inch of concordances, correspondence,
fieldnotes, and recording logs.
AFS 15,273A1-15,274A2: Two discs containing
four songs performed by Mae Hicks of Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
Recorded in New York City, February 1944. (Twelve minutes; tape
copy on LWO 7096 reel 1B)
AFS 15,304A1-15,305A2, 15,306A1 and B1: Three
discs containing twelve songs sung by Edith Perrin, originally
of the Bahamas. Recorded in New York City, 1941. (Thirty-three
minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096 reel 3A)
AFS 15,305B1: One disc containing "Mister
Rabbit" performed by Burl Ives. Recorded in New York City,
July 7, 1941. (Four minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096 reel 3A)
AFS 15,307: One disc containing six songs and
an interview sung and spoken by Elda Blackwood, originally of
the Bahamas. Recorded in New York City, 1947. (Fifteen minutes;
tape copy on LWO 7096 reel 3A)
AFS 15,308-15,316, 15,318-15,320, 15,375: Thirteen
discs and one tape containing forty-nine songs sung by Yankee
John Galusha and an interview conducted by Frank M. Warner. Recorded
in Minerva and Olmsteadville, New York, July 12, 1940-July 1950.
(Two hours and twenty-six minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096 reel
3)
AFS 15,317: One disc containing two songs performed
by Yankee John Galusha and John C. Heenan. Recorded in Minerva,
New York, August 26, 1946. (Eight minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096
reel 3B)
AFS 15,335-15,343: Nine discs containing one
interview and twenty-three songs sung by Louis Solomon (Mohawk).
Recorded at the St. Regis Indian Reservation, Hogansburg, New
York, 1940 and 1941. (One hour and eighteen minutes; tape copy
on LWO 7096 reel 4B)
AFS 15,359-15,360: Two discs containing seven
songs sung by Pvt. Richard O. Hamilton. Recorded in New York
City, 1941. (Twelve minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096 reel 5B)
AFS 15,363-15,364: Two discs containing eight
songs sung by Roy Walworth, Ralph Martin, and Pop Adams. Recorded
in New York City, 1941. (Twenty-four minutes; tape copy on LWO
7096 reel 5B)
AFS 15,365: One disc containing three songs
and conversations sung and spoken by J.E. Paul; three songs sung
with guitar by Frank M. Warner; and one song sung by an unknown
person. Recorded in Selkirk, New York, January, 1941. (Nine minutes;
tape copy on LWO 7096 reel 6A)
AFS 15,373-15,374: Two tapes containing conversations
and songs by Douglas Kennedy, Frank Proffitt, Frank Warner, and
Anne Warner. Recorded at Pinewoods Camp, New York, August 1961.
(One hour and thirty minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096 reels 11A-12A)
AFS 15,376: One tape containing stories and
songs from West Virginia by Tom Smith. Recorded in New York City,1952.
(Twenty minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096 reel 12B)
AFS 15,377-15,378: Two tapes containing four
songs sung by Mary Chapman, Nelson Chapman, and Ed Young; a story
about a whaling barque told by Nelson Chapman; and a conversation
with Captain Adams, Mrs. Adams, Nelson Chapman, and Lemuel Rackett
about Confederate sympathizers on eastern Long Island, Montauk
fishermen, and weather lore. Recorded in Orient, Long Island,
New York, August 1952. (Two hours and ten minutes; tape copy
on LWO 7096 reel 13)
AFS 15,379: One tape containing one song sung
by Mrs. Hubert Kernan recorded in Lyons Falls, New York, 1951.
(Ten minutes; tape copy on LWO 7096 reel 13B)
AFS 15,380: One tape containing a conversation
between Jared Van Wagenen, author of Golden Age of Homespun,
of Lawyersville, New York, Deac Martin of Ohio, and Frank Warner.
Recorded in New York City, 1950. (Ten minutes; tape copy on LWO
7096 reel 13B)
AFS 15,381: One tape containing thirty-nine
songs sung by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Axe Campbell, Carl Drepperd,
Sigurd Erickson, Thelma Griswold, Dorothy Howard, Delia Merriam,
and Sally Trube, and two conversations with Dorothy Howard, Delia
Merriam, and Sally Trube. Recorded at the Cooperstown Seminar,
Cooperstown, New York, July 12, 1949. (Two hours; LWO 7096 reel
14A-B)
AFS 15,564-15,565: Two tapes containing interviews,
reminiscences, and songs spoken and sung by Steve Wadsworth.
Recorded in Northville, New York, May 1969. The collection includes
two pages of notes. (Three hours; tape copy on LWO 7273)
AFC 1970/006: Sixteen wires of Tuscarora kinship
terms, personal narratives, texts, translations, and vocabularies
recorded by Anthony F.C. Wallace, 1948-49. Donated by the American
Philosophical Society. (Fourteen hours and thirty minutes; tape
copy on LWO 6256 reels 5B-12A)
AFC 1970/007: Thirteen wires of Onondaga ceremonies,
dances, songs, stories, texts, and Oneida hymns and other songs
recorded by Fred Lukoff, July-August 1948. Donated by the American
Philosophical Society. The collection includes six pages of lists.
(Eight hours and thirty minutes; tape copy on LWO 6256 reels 12-16A)
AFC 1980/001: Thirty-five 5-inch tapes, eighty
7-inch tapes, and forty-three 10-inch tapes of events, instrumentals,
interviews, and songs. Recorded primarily by and for Barbara Dane
and Irwin Silber at various locations in Canada and the United
States, especially for the "Sing Out!" radio programs
on WBAI-FM, New York City, 1960s-70s. The collection includes one
and one-half linear inches of content lists, correspondence, notes,
and transcripts. (Eighty-eight hours; RXB 0001-0115; RWC 6401-6441)
AFC 1984/011: Approximately nine hundred 12-inch
discs of dialect samples recorded principally in New England, South
Carolina, and Virginia by E. Marguerite Chapallaz, Miles Hanley,
Guy S. Lowman, Lorenzo Turner, and others, 1931-37. Recorded in
part for the Linguistic Atlas of New England. Received on exchange
from the American Dialect Society. The collection includes thirteen
and three-quarters linear feet of correspondence, database printouts,
disc jackets, notes, phonetic transcriptions, and seventy pages
of performer lists and subject cards.
AFS 24,658; 24,660; 24,662; 24,664; 24,666: Five
discs containing interviews with Lyttleton Fox Jr., of New York
City. Recorded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 10, 1933.
(One hour; tape copy on RWC 5751)
AFS 25,595; 25,628; 25,631; 25,634A; 25,635; 25,638;
25,640: Seven discs of personal history and speech
examples spoken by Bernard Bloch of New York City. Recorded
in Providence, Rhode Island, by Bernard Bloch, June 26-July
31, 1934. (One hour; tape copy on RWE 2988; 2990)
AFS 26,004-26,005; 26,011: Three discs containing
three readings of "The Rat Story" by unknown informants
from New York City. (Eight minutes; tape copy on RWE 3458)
AFC 1986/010: Two audiocassettes of an interview
with Joseph Sears, a program and social director from the Catskill
resort area in the 1940s. Recorded by Michael O'Malley in Brooklyn,
New York, May 19, 1986. The collection includes one-quarter linear
inch of correspondence and a transcript. (One hour and thirty minutes)
AFC 1986/012: A 279-page manuscript entitled "Our
Neighborhood," composed of recipes and stories collected by
students of Seward Park High School on New York City's Lower East
Side, 1985-86. The collection includes a one-page newspaper article.
AFC 1986/022: Fifty-nine 10-inch tapes of public
speeches and other utterances containing dialect samples, recorded
at various locations in North America by various collectors, and
compiled by the Center for Applied Linguistics for a project entitled "A
Survey and Collection of American English Dialect Recordings." The
collection includes fourteen linear inches of documentation, including
an introduction and preface, a list of contents, content summaries,
correspondence, and transcripts.
AFS 24,299A1: One tape containing former Mayor
Fiorella LaGuardia discussing politics in New York City. Submitted
by Arnold Jacobsen of Arnold's Archives, East Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(Ten minutes; RWB 3848A)
AFS 24,299B2: One tape containing samples from
chapter 7 of Beautiful Swimmers, Watermen, Crabs, and Chesapeake
Bay by William W. Warner, read by two young women from Barnard
College and Hunter College, New York City. Submitted by Jack
Phelan, Alcoa, Tennessee. (Twelve minutes; RWB 3848B)
AFS 24,305: One tape containing conversations
concerning local games, social relations, and television programs,
with two African American and six Puerto Rican males age fourteen
to eighteen. Recorded in New York City by Walt Wolfram, 1970-71.
(Two hours; RWB 3854)
AFS 24,312: One tape containing a speech made
by Eleanor Roosevelt three weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
and a speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he asks
Congress to declare war between Japan and the United States,
December 1941. Submitted by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library,
Hyde Park, New York. (One hour; RWB 3861)
AFS 24,331A1: One tape containing a public
speech by Isaac Asimov of New York City. Submitted by Maurice
Crane of the Voice Library at Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Michigan. (Fifteen minutes; RWB 3880A)
AFC 1987/023: One audiocassette entitled The
Woodland Sampler: Songs, Music, and Poetry From Camp Woodland,
Phoenicia, New York 1947-1963, compiled by Norman Studer,
Eric Levine, and Joan Studer Levine in 1987. The collection includes
nine pages of liner notes including historical information about
the songs, lyrics, and the story of Camp Woodland. (Thirty-eight
minutes)
AFC 1987/031: Twenty-six 10-inch tapes of Old
Believers' services and religious singing, and copies of a published
recording of Russian church bells and religious chant. Recorded
in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, New Jersey, New York, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., by Nicolas G. Schidlovsky,
1972-85. The collection includes seven photographs, a six-page
brochure entitled "Old Believers," and one linear inch
of concordances, notes, photocopies of chant notations, recording
logs, and early Slavic neumes.
AFS 25,970A1: One tape containing excerpts
of a concert performed by Pro Musica Slavica of New York, directed
by Nicolas G. Schidlovsky, 1981. (Thirty minutes; RWB 6115A)
AFS 25,970A2; 25,978A2-B1: Two tapes containing
discussion and performances by Fr. Pimen Simon and members of
the congregation in Erie, Pennsylvania. Recorded in Jordansville,
New York, 1980. (One hour and thirty minutes; RWB 6115A, 6123)
AFC 1988/026: Sixteen 7-inch tapes of over one
hundred and sixty versions of the Passover song "Chad Gadya" (One
Kid), recorded in various parts of the United States and the world.
Compiled by musicologist Abraham Schwadron, between 1973-1985,
during his time at University of California Los Angeles. The collection
includes one linear foot of background research, correspondence,
indexes, informant information, logs, publicity, one box of index
cards, four black-and-white photographs, and writings by Schwadron.
A collection guide is available online at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/schwad.html .
AFC 1988/026: SR001, item 8: One tape containing
one version of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic by Ruth
Rubin. Recorded in New York by Ruth Rubin, 1975-1976. (Six minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR002, items 5-9: One tape containing
five versions of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic and
Yiddish by R. Bermak, L. Blatt, D. Ellin, Ruth Rubin, and R.
Spivak. Recorded in New York by Ruth Rubin, 1948 and 1961. (Eleven
minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR003, items 2-6: One tape containing
five versions of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic and
Ladino by Morris Cassorla, Isaac Cassuto, Sophia Emira, O. Estrow
(Strong), and Gregory Yaroslow. Recorded in New York by Abraham
Schwadron, March 1976. (Fourteen minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR003, item 7: One tape containing
one version of "Chad Gadya" sung in Ladino-Aramaic
by Haim HaCohen. Recorded in Israel via the University of New
York by Albert Pinto, June 1971. (Nine minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR003, items 8-9: One tape containing
two versions of "Chad Gadya" sung in Arabic and Aramaic
by Moshe Habib. Recorded in Syracuse, New York, by Moshe Habib
on an unknown date. (Seven minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR006, item 14: One tape containing
one version of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic by Rabbi
Meir Fund. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York, by I. Schwadron, 1979.
(Two minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR009, item 5: One tape containing
one version of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic by Raphael
Y. Elnadav. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York, by Raphael Y. Elnadav,
December 1981. (Six minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR009, item 6: One tape containing
one version of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic by Samuel
Yaroslow. Recorded in Rochester, New York, by Samuel Yaroslow,
April 1976. (Three minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR010, item 1: One tape containing
one version of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic by Abraham
Mizrahi and choir. Recorded in New York by Abraham Mizrahi, 1982.
(Three minutes)
AFC 1988/026: SR010, items 9-11: One tape containing
three versions of "Chad Gadya" sung in Aramaic, German,
and German-Yiddish by members of the Lowenstein family. Recorded
in New York by Steven Lowenstein, July 1973. (Two minutes)
AFC 1988/028: One audiocassette of instrumentals
performed by various artists from Ireland, Scotland, and the United
States, particularly the New York City area. Recorded at the Irish
Arts Center's 4th annual Irish Music Festival at Snug Harbor, Staten
Island, New York City, June 11, 1985, and produced by Rebecca Miller
and Michael Schlesinger. The collection includes two copies each
of five program books from the Center's annual Irish Music Festivals,
1982-88. (Two hours)
AFC 1990/005: Four 10-inch tapes, twenty-two
black-and-white prints and negatives, and four videocassettes of "In
Country: A Concert and Symposium on the Folksong Traditions of
the Vietnam-Era Soldier," presented by the American Folklife
Center. Concert performers include Bill Dower and six Marines,
Dolf Droge, James "Bull" Durham, Bill Ellis, Tom Price,
Chuck Rosenberg (of New York City), and Robin Thomas, with commentary
by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, Congressman Lane
Edwards, and Alan Jabbour. Symposium participants include Cecil
Currey, Dower, Droge, Durham, Ellis, Lydia M. Fish (of Buffalo,
New York), Toby Hughes, Jabbour, Harold Langley, and Rosenberg.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress, July 13,
1989. The collection includes five linear inches of articles, correspondence,
promotional material, and notes. (Six hours; RWB 8766-8769) See
also: AFC 1991/002.
AFC 1990/011: Forty-eight 7-inch tapes and three
audio cassettes of old-time fiddle music and interviews performed
and spoken by Jehile Kirkhuff of Rush, Pennsylvania, and other
fiddlers of New York and Pennsylvania. Recorded by Ed and Geraldine
Berbaum at various locations in New York and Pennsylvania, 1980-85.
The collection includes one-half linear inch of articles, correspondence,
logs, and notes.
AFC 1990/011:SR8-10: Three tapes containing
fourteen instrumentals performed on fiddle by Jehile Kirkhuff
of Rush, Pennsylvania, and on guitar by Kathy Shimberg of Oneonta,
New York. Recorded May 9-10, 1980. (One hour and thirty minutes)
AFC 1990/011:SR19-20: Two tapes containing
comments and twenty-eight instrumentals performed on fiddle by
Henry Castor of Redfield, New York, and Alice Clemons of Osceola,
New York. Recorded in Osceola, New York, December 13, 1982. (One
hour)
AFC 1990/011:SR31-35: Five tapes containing
seventy-six instrumentals performed by Earl and Zelma Burrell
of Limestone, New York. Recorded December 28-29, 1982. (Two hours
and thirty minutes)
AFC 1990/012: Twelve 10-inch and three 7-inch
tapes, one hundred eighty-two black-and-white prints and negatives,
one color print, ninety-two color slides, and two videocassettes
of performances from the 1990 Neptune Plaza Concert Series, sponsored
by the American Folklife Center and featuring the presentation
of folk traditions from many cultures. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., at the Library of Congress, April-September 1990. A collection
guide is available online at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune90.html .
The following lists the materials from the May 17 concert of Henry
Sapoznik and Klezmer Plus from New York City.
AFC 1990/012:SR 3-4: Two tapes containing the
concert. (One hour and thirty minutes)
AFC 1990/012:SR 5-7: Three tapes containing
an interview of Henry Sapoznik conducted by Alan Jabbour. (One
hour and thirty-four minutes)
AFC 1990/012:Folder 7: One folder containing
thirty-nine pages of an autographed concert flier, unsigned fliers,
press releases, newspaper clippings, promotional material, and
a concert log.
AFC 1990/012:Folder 8-9: Two folders containing
four black-and-white prints photographed by Reid Baker, and one
black-and-white promotional photo by an unknown photographer.
AFC 1991/002: Two audiocassettes of a program
entitled "In Country II: Soldiers' Songs from Vietnam." Performers
include Saul Broudy, Chip Dockery, James "Bull" Durham,
Bill Ellis, Lisa Ellis, Larry Heinemann, Sherry Hughes, Toby Hughes,
Dick Jonas, Kathy Jonas, Tom Price, Chuck Rosenberg (of New York
City), and Robin Thomas. Recorded at the Old Town School of Folk
Music, Chicago, Illinois, by Lydia M. Fish of Buffalo State College,
Buffalo, New York, August 4, 1990. The collection includes three
pages of datasheets and logs. (Three hours) See also: AFC 1990/005.
AFC 1991/018: One 16-inch disc of an "audition" by
Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, narrated by Woody Guthrie,
for NBC Radio, in New York. Recorded June 19, 1940. The collection
includes one datasheet. (Fifteen minutes)
AFC 1991/019: 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.
AFC 1993/001: Twenty-four 5-inch tapes, sixty
7-inch tapes, and two hundred eighty-eight audiocassettes from
the Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project, a
survey of twenty-three ethnic schools from twenty-two ethnic groups.
Recorded at various locations throughout the United States by Elena
Bradunas and twenty-three fieldworkers, April-July, 1982, sponsored
by the American Folklife Center. The collection includes fourteen
and two-thirds linear feet of correspondence, fieldnotes, final
reports, key contributor forms, news clippings, publications, references
to curriculum materials, references to donated photographs, slide
and photo logs, sound recording logs, and transcripts of audio
recordings. A collection guide is available online at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/ethnicschools.html .
AFS 23,464-23,483: Twenty audiocassettes of
class meetings, and Easter celebrations recorded at the Greek
School at the Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Buffalo,
New York, by Lydia Fish. (Twenty hours; RYA 4469-4488)
ES82-LF-1-4: Sixty-eight color slides of class
meetings, the annual Hellenic Festival, and Easter celebrations
at the Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Buffalo,
New York. Photographed by Lydia Fish.
ES82-197823-1-5, ES82-198932-1-4, ES82-4-526391-397: One
hundred sixty-seven black-and-white negatives of dance class,
Hellenic Festival, class meetings, and associated church members
at the Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Buffalo,
New York, photographed by Lydia Fish.
AFS 23,701-23,705: Five audiocassettes of class
meetings and graduation ceremonies recorded at the Atatürk
School, a Turkish school in New York City, by Maurie Sacks. (Five
hours; RYA 4639-4643)
ES82-MS-196411-2-8: Two hundred sixty black-and-white
negatives of a Mother’s Day celebration at the Atatürk
School in New York City. Photographed by Lance Tarhan.
ES82-197561-1-5: One hundred eighty-four black-and-white
negatives of a graduation ceremony at the Atatürk School
in New York City. Photographed by Lance Tarhan.
ES82-MM1-MM4: Sixty-seven color slides of the
Johnny Colón School, class meetings, salsa and charanga
workshop band rehearsals, and salsa band concert held at the
Johnny Colón School in New York City. Photographed by
Jefferson Miller.
ES82-002936-2937, ES82-60150: One hundred eight
black-and-white negatives of concerts by a salsa band, and rehearsal
of salsa and charanga workshop bands held at the Johnny Colon
School in New York City. Photographed by Jefferson Miller.
AFC 1993/002: Six 10-inch tapes, eight audiocassettes,
nineteen black-and-white contact sheets, twenty-eight black-and-white
photo prints, one hundred and thirty-two color slides, and six
videocassettes of performances from the 1993 Neptune Plaza Concert
Series, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and featuring
the presentation of folk traditions from many cultures. Recorded
in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress, April-September
1993. A collection guide is available online at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune93.html .
The following lists materials from the May 20 concert of Tom and
Maureen Doherty, Mick Moloney, and Regan Wick, a traditional Irish
music and dance group from New York City and Pennsylvania.
AFC 1993/002:SR2: One tape containing the concert.
(One hour)
AFC 1993/002:V2: One videocassette containing
the concert. (One hour)
AFC 1993/002:Folder 6: One folder containing
fourteen pages of concert fliers, press releases, concert log,
and news clippings.
AFC 1993/002:Folder 7-9: Three folders containing
two black-and-white contact sheets (fifty-seven images) and six
prints photographed by Jim Higgins.
AFC 1994/001: Four 10-inch tapes, fourteen audiocassettes,
three DAT cassettes, one diskette, two hundred and two black-and-white
prints and negatives, ten contact sheets, one hundred and twenty-four
color slides, five color photo prints, and fourteen videocassettes
of performances from the 1994 Neptune Plaza Concert Series, sponsored
by the American Folklife Center. Recorded in Washington, D.C.,
at the Library of Congress, April-September 1994. A collection
guide is available online at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune94.html .
The following lists materials from the June 2 concert of Iroquois
music performed by the Six Nations Longhouse Women Singers from
Canada and New York.
AFC 1994/001:SR 3: One 10-inch tape containing
the concert. (One hour)
AFC 1994/001:V3-4: Two videocassettes containing
the concert. (Two hours)
AFC 1994/001:Folder 7: One folder containing
twenty-one pages of promotional materials on the band, a concert
flier autographed by the performers, unsigned fliers, a concert
log, and newspaper clippings.
AFC 1994/001:Folder 8: One folder containing
two black-and-white contact sheets (fifty-one images) photographed
by John Gibbs.
AFC 1994/001:Envelope 5: One envelope containing
fifty-one black-and-white negatives photographed by John Gibbs.
AFC 1994/001:Envelope 6-8: Three envelopes
containing fifty-two color slides photographed by John Gibbs.
The following lists materials from the September 15 concert
of Cuban mambo music performed by Cachao and the Latin All-Stars
from New York City, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
AFC 1994/001:SR7: One cassette containing
the concert. (One hour)
AFC 1994/001:V8: One videocassette containing
the concert. (One hour)
AFC 1994/001:Folders 15-16: Two folders containing
three-fourths linear inch of concert fliers, a concert log,
newspaper clippings, and promotional materials about the band
in English and Spanish.
AFC 1994/001:Folder 17: One folder containing
one black-and-white contact sheet (thirty-seven images) photographed
by James Hardin, and one color contact sheet containing twenty-two
images by an unknown photographer.
AFC 1994/001:Envelope 10: One envelope containing
thirty-seven black-and-white negatives photographed by James
Hardin.
AFC 1994/001:Envelopes 11-12: Two envelopes
containing thirty-six color slides photographed by John Gibbs.
AFC 1995/001: Five DAT cassettes, two-hundred
and twenty-two black-and-white prints and negatives, one-hundred
and five color prints and negatives, six contact sheets, and six
videocassettes of performances from the 1995 Neptune Plaza Concert
Series, sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Recorded at
the Library of Congress, April-September 1995. [finding aid]
The following lists materials from the May 18 performance of
lindy-hop dancing by Frankie Manning from Harlem, New York City,
accompanied by jazz music performed by Brooks Tegler.
AFC 1995/001:SR2: One audiocassette containing
the concert. (One hour and thirty minutes)
AFC 1995/001:V2: One videocassette containing
the concert, recorded by Peter Bartis. (One hour and thirty
minutes)
AFC 1995/001:V3: One videocassette of a 1989 20/20 segment
on Frankie Manning. (Ten minutes)
AFC 1995/001:Folders 4-6: Two folders containing
three-fourths of a linear inch of concert fliers, newspaper
clippings, promotional materials about the performers, a transcription
of a National Public Radio interview with Frankie Manning,
one copy of Jet magazine with an article on Frankie
Manning, and information on swing-dancing.
AFC 1995/001:Folders 7-11: Two folders containing
one black-and-white print photographed by James Hardin, and
forty-one color prints photographed by Stephen Spinder.
AFC 1995/001:Envelope 2: One envelope containing
three contact sheets (fifty-three color negatives), photographed
by Stephen Spinder.
The following lists materials from the September 21 performance
containing Argentine tango dance, instrumentals, and songs performed
by Buenos Aires Connection of Argentina and New York City.
AFC 1995/001:SR5: One audiocassette containing
the concert. (One hour)
AFC 1995/001:V8: One videocassette containing
the concert, recorded by Peter Bartis. (One hour)
AFC 1995/001:Folder 19: One folder containing
twelve pages of concert fliers and a recording log.
AFC 1995/001:Folder 20: One folder containing
one black-and-white contact sheet (thirty-seven images) and
four black-and-white prints photographed by Peter Harrington,
one black-and-white contact sheet (thirty-five images) and
one black-and-white print photographed by James Glover.
AFC 1995/001:Envelope 6: One envelope containing
thirty-seven black-and-white negatives, photographed by Peter
Harrington, and thirty-five black-and-white negatives photographed
by James Glover.
AFC 1995/004: Two hundred and seventy-five 10-inch
tapes of bluegrass, country, and folk music, recorded in California,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and
West Virginia, primarily by Mike Seeger, 1953-67. The collection
includes three linear inches of computer disks, correspondence,
notes, and photos. The tape numbers indicated in the following
annotations correspond with Mike Seeger's "dub numbers."
AFC 1995/004:14A5-9: One tape containing five
instrumentals and songs performed by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger,
and possibly others. Originally recorded on discs in New York
City, 1940. (Twenty minutes)
AFC 1995/004:14B: One tape containing songs
sung by Mike and Peggy Seeger of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Pete
Seeger of Beacon, New York. Recorded by Mike Seeger, 1953. (One
hour)
AFC 1995/004:140A-141B: Two tapes containing
an interview with A.E. "Tony" Alderman talking about
his time recording and performing with the Hillbillies in New
York City and Washington, D.C. Recorded in Washington, D.C.,
by Mike Seeger, April 16, 1961. (Three hours)
AFC 1995/004:141B-143B: Two tapes containing
an interview with Ernest V. Stoneman talking about his time collecting
and reconstructing songs, performing, and recording. He also
talks of his performances and experiences in New York City. Recorded
in Carmody Hills, Maryland, by Mike Seeger and John Cohen, April
16, 1961. (Four hours)
AFC 1995/004:157A-158A: Two tapes containing
an interview with Frank Walker, artist and repertory person for
Columbia Records in the 1920s, for Hank Williams, and others.
Recorded in New York City by Mike Seeger, June 19, 1962. (Three
hours)
AFC 1995/004:167B-168B: Two tapes containing
an interview with Eck Robertson talking about how he got himself
recorded and his time in New York City. Recorded in Amarillo,
Texas, by Mike Seeger, September 29, 1963. (Three hours)
AFC 1995/004:170A: One tape containing twelve
songs played by the Kentucky Colonels (formerly the Country Boys).
Recorded at Gerde’s Folk City in New York City by Mike
Seeger, November 7, 1963. (One hour)
AFC 1995/004:170B-172A; 207A-212A; 232A; 256B: Eleven
tapes containing sixty-five instrumentals and vocal songs, and
interviews with Lesley Riddle. Recorded Rochester, New York,
by Mike Seeger, October 27, 1963; March 5, 7, and 8, 1965; and
July 11, 1965; February 11, 1966. (Fourteen hours)
AFC 1995/004:174-176A: Three tapes containing
thirty-two songs performed by Dock Boggs, Mississippi John Hurt,
and Mike Seeger. Recorded in New York City by unknown persons
on December 13, 1963. (Four hours)
AFC 1995/004:198: One tape containing seventeen
songs and an interview with Sherman Lawson. Talks about his time
with Frank Hutchinson, their performances and recording in New
York City. Recorded in Switzer, West Virginia, by Mike Seeger,
June 8, 1964. (Two hours)
AFC 1995/004:232-233: Two tapes containing
an interview with Elizabeth Cotten giving her oral history, and
describing where she lived throughout her life including Siler
City, North Carolina; New York City; and Washington, D.C. Recorded
in Roosevelt, New Jersey, by Mike Seeger, January 8, 1966. (Three
hours)
AFC 1995/007: Thirteen audiocassettes of radio
programs derived from live performances and on-stage interviews
from the "Folk Masters" series held at The Barns of Wolf
Trap, Vienna, Virginia. Originally recorded April 1-May 8, 1992.
The collection includes a thirty-two page "Listener's Guide
to Programs."
AFC 1995/007:SR10B: One audiocassette containing
Irish instrumentals, interviews, and songs performed and spoken
by Seamus Egan and Friends, a group which includes Eileen Ivers
and Susan McKeown of New York City. (Twenty minutes)
AFC 1995/007:SR12A: One audiocassette containing
klezmer music and interviews performed and spoken by Klezmer
Plus of New York City. (Twenty-five minutes)
AFC 1995/009: Seventy-nine broadcast videocassettes
of interviews and performances related to Irish music in New York
City for the documentary entitled From Shore to Shore (Truckee,
California: Cherry Lane Productions, 1993). Recorded by Patrick
Mullen and others. The collection includes one-half linear inch
of correspondence, ephemera, notes, photos, and a VHS videocassette
of the finished documentary. (Seventy-six hours)
AFC 1995/033: One 4-inch, four 5-inch, and two
7-inch tapes of sounds of New York City, recorded by Tony Schwartz;
Pete Seeger singing Bob Dylan's "Who Killed Davey Moore?";
songs sung by Suzanna Shahn; songs sung by John Jacob Niles; and
the Schubert Octet II. The tapes were originally owned by Ben Shahn
and donated by Stephan Lee Taller in 1993. The collection includes
published biographies of Tony Schwartz and Ben Shahn, correspondence,
notes, and recording logs.
AFC 1995/033:SR1: One 4-inch tape containing
Bob Dylan's "Who Killed Davy Moore?" sung by Pete Seeger
of Beacon, New York, with crowd noise and comments, recorded
by Tony Schwartz. (Five minutes)
AFC 1995/033:SR2: One 5-inch tape containing "New
York, A City of Sound" recorded in New York City by Tony
Schwartz. (Ten minutes)
AFC 1995/033:SR3-4: Two 5-inch tapes containing "Adventures
in Sound" recorded in New York City by Tony Schwartz. (One
hour)
AFC 1996/001: One audiocassette of commentary
on the Works Progress Administration (WPA) spoken by Steve Zeitlin
of City Lore, New York City. Recorded from the National Public
Radio program "Crossroads," March 17, 1995. The collection
includes 2 articles, correspondence, and a data sheet. (Four minutes)
AFC 1996/011: Two audiocassettes of portions
of the second annual American Roots Fourth of July concert hosted
by Georges Collinet and Nick Spitzer. Performers include the Akwesasne
Mohawk Singers from the North American Traveling College near Hogansburg,
New York. Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the Sylvan Theater (near
the Washington Monument), July 4, 1994. Sponsored by Folk Masters,
the National Council for the Traditional Arts, National Park Service,
National Public Radio, and Radio Smithsonian. The collection includes
twenty-nine pages of correspondence and notes. (Two hours)
AFC 1996/035: 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. (Thirty-two minutes). See also: AFC 2000/015.
AFC 1996/081: One videocassette entitled KlezKamp:
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program, an annual klezmer music festival
organized by Living Traditions. This program features Peter Sokolow,
a well-known klezmer musician and others. Recorded at the Paramount
Hotel, Parksville, New York, by Leonard Kerpelman, Dec. 25-30,
1995. The collection includes seventeen pages of a program, logs
and notes by Leonard Kerpelman and Jack Manischewitz. (Four hours)
AFC 1997/028: Two CDs (entitled My Long Island
Home and I Love
Long Island) and one audiocassette (entitled Ice Storm
of 1998)
of the traditional music of Long Island, New York. Produced by
Stanley A. Ransom ("The Connecticut Peddler"), 1997.
The collection includes a 54-page songbook entitled Songs of
Long Island. (Two hours)
AFC 1998/013: Thirty-five monographs, one hundred
and twenty-one serials (including the newsletter Seanachai:
Storyteller and the newspaper Irish Edition), three
photos, eighteen posters, and one hundred and eighty-seven pieces
of ephemera related to the Philadelphia Ceili Club, Philadelphia
chapter of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, and events held in Philadelphia
and New York Irish American communities. Collected by Robin Hiteshew,
1952-93.
AFC 1998/014: Nine 5-inch and nine 7-inch tapes
of Henrietta Yurchenco’s radio show "Adventures in Folk
Music," consisting of a variety of musical genres ranging
from religious blues to Yemenite wedding songs, featuring music
and interviews with artists such as Robin Conant, Carolyn Hester,
Mabel Hillary, Nasser Rastegad Nejad, New York Ramblers, Ralph
Rinzler, Ruth Rubin, Victoria Spivey, Artie and Happy Traum, Pearl
Primus, and Doc Watson. Broadcasted and recorded on radio station
WBAI in New York City by Yurchenco, 1961-1968. (Four hours and
thirty minutes)
AFC 2000/001: Four hundred and five linear feet
(approximately 90,000 manuscript pages, 475 sound recordings, 13,000
graphic materials, 330 electronic media, and 75 artifacts) of documentation
of local festivals, fairs, parades, and other community-based events
from each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories
and trusts. The Local Legacies Collection was donated through the
efforts of individuals, organizations, and institutions asked to
participate by members of Congress. This project was part of the
Library of Congress Bicentennial celebration in the year 2000.
There is an online presentation of this collection entitled Community
Roots. The following is a list of Local Legacies projects from
New York, arranged by congressional sponsorship:
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Summer at
Jones Beach; Immigrant Life in New York; Little Falls Canal Celebration;
Winter Olympics at Lake Placid; Allentown Art Festival.
Senator Charles E. Schumer: Harriet Tubman Home;
The Oswego River Canal; The Oswego County Fair; Lake Ontario
Bird Festival; Rochester, New York’s Lilac Festival.
Representative Michael P. Forbes (1st District): Montauk
Point Lighthouse Museum.
Representative Peter King (3rd District): Oystering
on the Bay: Then and Now.
Representative Carolyn McCarthy (4th District): Charles
Lindbergh and the Cradle of Aviation.
Representative Gary L. Ackerman (5th District): Particles
of the Past: Sandmining on Long Island, 1870s-1980s.
Representative Edolphus "Ed" Towns (10th
District): Society for the Preservation of Weeksville
and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Representative Vito Fossella (13th District): Concord:
From Melting Pot to New Millenium.
Representative Eliot L. Engel (17th District): Edgar
Allan Poe Cottage.
Representative Nita M. Lowey (18th District): Thomas
Paine Memorial Museum; St. Paul’s Church National Historic
Site; The Jay Heritage Center; C. Paul Jennewein, Sculptor; Philip
H. Reisman, Jr.: Prizewinning Writer for Film and Television
and Expert in Indian Lore; Larchmont Luminaries; Alton S. Tobey,
Artist and Historian.
Representative Benjamin A. Gilman (20th District): Onion
Harvest Festival.
Representative Michael R. McNulty (21st District): The
City of Troy: Home of Uncle Sam; The Irish American Heritage
Museum; The New York State Writers Institute.
Representative John E. Sweeney (22nd District): Feast
of Saint Michael Festival; Solomon Northup Day: A Celebration
of Freedom.
Representative Sherwood L. Boehlert (23rd District): Iroquois
Festival.
Representative James T. Walsh (25th District): New
York State Fair.
Representative Maurice D. Hinchey (26th District): Spiedie
Fest.
Representative Thomas M. Reynolds (27th District): Town
of Wales; Waterloo: Birthplace of Memorial Day; One-Room Schools:
Gone but not Forgotten; Italian-American Traditions in Western
New York.
Representative Louise McIntosh Slaughter (28th District): Built
on Living Waters; Celebrator of the Arts; Seedbed of Ideas; The
Flower City; Imaging Center of the World and More.
Representative Jack Quinn (30th District): The
Buffalo St. Patrick’s Day Parade; Western New York Celebrates
the Legacy of General Casimir Pulaski: A Revolutionary War Hero.
Representative Amo Houghton (31st District): Mark
Twain and Elmira College; Corning, NY: The Crystal City; Chautauqua
Literacy and Scientific Circle: The Oldest Book Club in America.
AFC 2000/015: One videocassette entitled Cheres:
A Carpathian Folk Ensemble, featuring the group Cheres performing
folk music of the Carpathian region, specifically Ukraine, Romania,
Hungary, and Moldova, as well as Gypsy and Jewish tunes. Cheres
was founded by Andriy Milavsky in 1990 and performs primarily
in the New York City area. Produced in New York City with some
clips from the Ukraine. The collection includes two publicity
photos and five pages of correspondence, a biography of the group,
a log, and a concert flier. (Twenty-five minutes). See also: AFC
1996/035.
AFC 2000/016: 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. (Two hours and twenty-two minutes)
Thesis and Dissertation Collections
Howard, Dorothy Mills. "Folk Jingles of American Children
Today." New York: New York University, 1938. Ph.D. dissertation
in Education. Two hundred forty-six pages. Contains analysis, musical
transcriptions, rhymes, and song texts primarily from New Jersey
and New York. (MICROFILM: request in Music Division: MUSIC
1969)
Kimball, Marilyn. "George Edwards, Catskill Folksinger." Oneonta,
New York: Cooperstown Graduate Programs, State University of New
York College at Oneonta, 1966. M.A. thesis. Three hundred and eleven
pages. Contains a biography, interviews, maps, photographs, and
song texts.
Lane, Frederick W. "A Selected Annotated Bibliography of
Periodical Articles Dealing with Ballads and Folk Songs, Published
in Four United States Folklore Journals Between 1937-1954." Washington,
D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1955. M.A. thesis in Library
Science. Sixty-nine pages. Contains bibliographic entries for articles
published in folklore journals published in four states, including
the New York Folklore Quarterly.
Stoner, George Michael. "If I'd Been Polish, I Guess I'd
Be Playing Polkas: An Examination of the Social Contexts of Traditional
Irish Music in Rochester, New York." Bowling Green, Kentucky:
Western Kentucky University, 1976. M.A. thesis. Ninety-nine pages.
Contains analyses and biographies.
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