Found in 7 Collections and/or records:
Collection
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Music Division
Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers
Identifier: ML31.U5
Abstract
The Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music was established in 1942 to attend to the morale of military personnel through the provision of music materials and the support of bands at various levels – camp, fort, field unit, and individual performer. Library of Congress Music Division chief Harold Spivacke served as the Sub-Committee chairman. These files document his role and that of his staff in this war effort through correspondence, photographs,...
Dates
1920-1950; Majority of material found within 1941-1945
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American Folklife Center
Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo collection
Identifier: AFC 1943/001
Abstract
An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, moving images, photographs, and accompanying materials that document religious and secular music, dance, and ritual in the northeastern Brazilian states of Maranhão, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and also the state of São Paulo. Fieldwork was conducted in northeastern Brazil in 1937-1938, some audio recordings were accessioned in 1950. The collection includes correspondence between Harold Spivacke, then chief of the Music Division of the...
Dates
1937-1943
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress and Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection
Identifier: AFC 1941/002
Abstract
The collection consists of a portion of the materials generated by a joint field project -- the Coahoma County, Mississippi, field project, 1941-1942 -- undertaken by Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, and Fisk University faculty members including Charles S. Johnson, John Wesley Work, and Lewis Wade Jones. Field recordings were made of secular and religious music, sermons, children's games, jokes, folktales, interviews, and dances...
Dates
1941-1943
Collection
Found in:
Music Division
Serge Koussevitzky Archive
Identifier: ML31.K66
Abstract
Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian-born conductor, composer, and double bassist. The archive includes correspondence, personal and business papers, photographs, writings, clippings, scrapbooks, programs, and other materials which serve as a record of Koussevitzky's life and career, and document some of the most significant aspects of twentieth-century music. Through his work as a conductor and publisher, and his efforts to commission new musical works, Koussevitzky maintained deep ties with...
Dates
1880-1978; Majority of material found within ( 1924-1951)
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax papers
Identifier: AFC 1933/001
Abstract
Collection of correspondence, research notes, transcripts, sheet music, manuscript music transcriptions, song texts, song books, maps, and administrative documents dating primarily from the tenure of John A. Lomax and his son Alan Lomax at the Archive of American Folk Song, Library of Congress, from 1932-1942, but with a few items dating to the 1960s. Correspondents include various staff at the Library of Congress, in particular, Harold Spivacke; and folklorists, musicians, writers,...
Dates
1907-1969; Majority of material found within 1932-1942
Collection
Found in:
Music Division
Harold Spivacke Collection
Identifier: ML31.S69
Abstract
Harold Spivacke was a music librarian, administrator, musicologist, and musician. He was chief of the Library of Congress Music Division for thirty-five years, from 1937 until 1972. The collection contains materials relating to his life and career, including correspondence, student notebooks, speeches, his dissertation, photographs, clippings, programs, manuscript and printed music, artwork, awards and honorary degrees, and business papers.
Dates
1923-1984; Majority of material found within ( 1930-1978)
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection
Identifier: AFC 1940/001
Abstract
The California Folk Music Project of the California Work Projects Administration (WPA) was conceived and directed by Sidney Robertson Cowell and co-sponsored by the Music Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Music Division, Library of Congress from 1938 to 1940. Additional support was provided by the New Music Society of California and the Society of California Pioneers. The resulting collection of sound recordings, photographs, correspondence, field notes, and...
Dates
1936-1991; Majority of material found within 1938-1940