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Found in 9 Collections and/or records:

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Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection

Identifier: AFC 1960/001
Abstract

An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, photographs, and accompanying documentation of Moroccan folk, popular, and art music. The collection includes recordings Paul Bowles made in 1959 during a four-month field project sponsored by the Library of Congress with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation as well as additional field recordings that he and Christopher Wanklyn made between 1960 and 1962.

Dates 1957-1989; Majority of material found within 1959, 1960-1962
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Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection

Identifier: AFC 1939/003
Abstract

The Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection is the result of the Anglo-American folksong collecting activities of Fletcher Collins Jr. from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, under the auspices of the WPA Joint Committee on Folk Arts and for the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song.

Dates 1935-1944
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Found in: Music Division

Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection

Identifier: ML31.C78
Abstract Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) was a folksong and ethnic music collector and recordist, ethnographer, ethnomusicologist, teacher, writer, and wife of composer Henry Cowell. The collection consists of her personal papers which document all aspects of her life and work. The collection includes correspondence relating to personal and professional matters; fieldwork reports, fieldnotes, song lists and other materials from her field recording projects and trips; articles, essays, reviews,...
Dates 1901-1992; Majority of material found within ( 1936-1990)
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Duncan Emrich Autograph Album Collection

Identifier: AFC 1955/001
Abstract

This collection was initiated through an on-air request for autograph albums on the "NBC Weekend" radio program by Duncan Emrich, then head of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress, between 1955 and 1956. It consists of twenty autograph albums and related ephemera from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and New York, with dates from 1843 to 1923.

Dates 1843-1923
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Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection

Identifier: AFC 1940/004
Abstract

The Woody Guthrie manuscript collection includes unpublished correspondence, most are letters from Guthrie to Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, dated 1940-1942; plus drawings; essays; song lyrics; and a songbook, "Songs of Woody Guthrie."

Dates 1935-1950
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Rae Korson papers

Identifier: AFC 1986/003
Abstract Collection of correspondence, Library of Congress-related personnel documentation, and ephemera related to Rae Korson's tenure at the Archive of Folk Song. Correspondents include: Jan Brunvand, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Archie Green, Alta Fife, Austin Fife, Helen Hartness Flanders, Frank Gillis, Wayland Hand, Herbert Halpert, Joe Hickerson, Charles Hofmann, Charles Iler, Sandy Ives, Bruce Jackson, Maud Karpeles, George List, Judith McCulloh, Peter Nabokov, Bruno Nettl, Willard Rhodes, Ralph...
Dates 1937-1982
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Juan B. Rael Collection

Identifier: AFC 1940/002
Abstract

Sound recordings and manuscripts that document the musical heritage and cultural traditions of the Hispano residents of the portion of the Northern Rio Grande region of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, collected by Juan B. Rael in 1940.

Dates 1939-1999; Majority of material found within 1940
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Vance Randolph collection

Identifier: AFC 1941/001
Abstract

Field recordings, photographs, and manuscripts documenting Ozark Mountains folksong, folklife, and local history from 1941 to 1972, collected by Vance Randolph.

Dates 1941-1972; Majority of material found within 1941-1943
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Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey Collection

Identifier: AFC 1941/018
Abstract

Correspondence, field notes, reports, recording logs, transcripts of song texts, and sound recordings of African American music traditions and folkways, collected by Robert Sonkin, primarily in Gee's Bend, Alabama, in 1941.

Dates 1937-1941; Majority of material found within 1941