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| Series I: Manuscripts (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Notebooks (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Songs: Notebook (3 of 3) (continued) | |||||||||||||
| A poem or song titled "Wishing You A Very Good 1941" written by [Martha from Connie] (7" by 10", typed, 6 pp.; stapled binding) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 203 | Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (1 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of Flamenco songs recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5" by 8", handwritten, 35 songs; hardback, tan canvas cover). Song genres include: Bulerias (4 variations); Farruca (3 variations); Granadinas (6 variations); Sevillanas (12 variations); Soleares (15 variations); Zambra (1 variation) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 204 | Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (2 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5 1⁄4" by 6 1⁄2", handwritten, 23 songs; hardback, brown canvas cover, water damage from top to bottom of 1/3 of the book) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 23 FOLDER 205 | Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (3 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| BOX 24 FOLDER 206 | Songs: Transcriptions in Binder-style Notebook | ||||||||||||
| Index | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 207 | Songs: Transcriptions in Accordion-style Folder | ||||||||||||
| Index | |||||||||||||
| Limericks and Quotations | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 208 | Limericks (1 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| "A base drummer..." to "But the Bishop was..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (60 limericks) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 209 | Limericks (2 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| "From Brooklyn..." to "There was a young maid..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (40 limericks) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 210 | Limericks (3 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| "There was a young maiden..." to "With..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (76 limericks) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 211 | Bound Notebook: "Stories, Etc." | ||||||||||||
| Quotations recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5" by 7", handwritten, 25 pp. filled; hardback, red cover) | |||||||||||||
| Notes and Lectures | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 212 | Notes: Names of Performers, Informants | ||||||||||||
| Names of 30 performers and informants gathered by Eskin; additional information can be found on the back of some slips (handwritten, 30 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 213 | Notes: Addresses and Phone Numbers | ||||||||||||
| Contact information for performers and informants gathered by Eskin; (handwritten, 19 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 214 | Notes: Song Fragments | ||||||||||||
| Song fragments, poems, and quotations gathered by Eskin (handwritten, 26 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 215 | Notes: Limerick/Rhyme Fragments | ||||||||||||
| Limerick and rhyming fragments gathered by Eskin (handwritten, 5 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 216 | Notes: Information about Folksong Recordings | ||||||||||||
| Includes oeuvre of folklorist Alberto Hemsi (typed, 1 p.) and notes (handwritten, 2 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 217 | Notes: Vocabulary Terms and Definitions | ||||||||||||
| Includes correspondence defining "Creole" (typed, 2 pp.) and Andalusian music (typed, 2 pp.). Also includes definitions for the following terms: shanties, Calypso, Calypso instruments, Chinese instruments, and ethnomusicology (handwritten, 5 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 218 | Notes: Folksong | ||||||||||||
| Includes notes on folksong and folk music (handwritten, 4 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 219 | Notes: Folksong Publications | ||||||||||||
| Includes a bibliography of folksong resources (typed and handwritten, 1 p.); also includes published clippings and personal references to folksong resources (typed and handwritten, 20 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 220 | Notes: Information for a Folksong Radio Program | ||||||||||||
| Eskin's notes for a radio program interview, "F.S.L." (handwritten, 8 pp.); also includes related notes (handwritten, 3 leaves), and a transcript of a program interview given for KYIM (typed, 1 p., [December 1948 February 1949, Yuma, AZ]) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 221 | Notes: Chords and Hand Positions | ||||||||||||
| Includes a drawing of a cotton picker's hand position (hand drawn, 1 p.); fingerings and guitar hand positions (handwritten, 4 pp.); diagram depicting how to make a wooden whistle from a twig (master photocopy, 1 p.); guitar fret diagrams (handwritten, 3 pp.); and a clipping of an English concertina keyboard (published, 1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 222 | Notes: History of Various Places | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Australia" (published, 2 pp.); "Revolutionary Movements in Canada" (typed, 2 pp.); and "A Short History of New York State" (typed, 1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 223 | Notes: Easter Traditions | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: a photograph clipping of an Easter egg cracking tradition; notes on Easter tradition (typed, 1 leaf); notes and questions concerning the tradition (handwritten, 2 leaves); and excerpts from The Easter Book by Francis Weiser (handwritten, 2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 224 | Music, Discussion of | ||||||||||||
| Excerpts from The Literature of Folkmusic ; includes an introductory essay (typed, 2 pp.), bibliography and further resources (typed, 6 pp.), and an essay titled, "Sound, Scales, and Modes" (typed, 10 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 225 | Publicity Data for Sam Eskin | ||||||||||||
| Drafted by Eskin and intended to be used as a publicity release; provides background history, experiences, philosophy, and growing involvement with folk music (handwritten, 3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 226 | Lectures: "Shifting Definitions of Folksong or What is a Folksong?" (1962) | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: 2nd Annual University of Chicago Folk Festival program; a draft of Eskin's lecture on American folk music, "Shifting Definitions of Folksong, or What is Folksong?" (typed, 6 pp.); and a final draft of "Shifting Definitions of Folksong" (typed, 13 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 227 | Lectures: "Lore of the Folk, From the Folk, To All the Folk" (1962) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of Eskin's lecture on American folk music, "Lore of the Folk, From the Folk, To All the Folk" written for the Ulster County Folklore Society (1 original copy, 3 onion skin copies, typed, 2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 228 | Lectures, Untitled (1 of 2) | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: introduction notes for a lecture (typed, 1 leaf); lecture "#1," which introduces American folksongs, leaves space for them to be played, and ends with an interpretive tie-in (typed, 9 pp.); lyrics to "Salt Horse" (typed, 1 leaf); and an untitled lecture that follows the same format as "#1," using different material (typed, 6 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 229 | Lectures, Untitled (2 of 2) | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: an untitled lecture that introduces American folksongs, leaves space for them to be played, and ends with an interpretive tie-in (typed, 5 pp.); an untitled lecture that follows the same format using reel-to-reel tapes (typed, 8 pp.); an untitled radio show talk with a play list of American folksongs (typed, 4 pp.); draft of an untitled lecture on American folksongs (handwritten, 3 pp.); another draft of an untitled lecture with notes on potential folksongs (handwritten, 4 pp.); and a draft written for a talk given on the KFDM radio station [Beaumont, TX] (typed, 3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 230 | Assignments | ||||||||||||
| Includes: a syllabus for an English Literature class, Folksongs and Narrative Poems (typed, 2 pp.); song lists marked UCLA (handwritten, 2 cards, November 3, 1948); and a song list for a memorial program (handwritten, 1 leaf, Woodstock, N.Y. May 28, 1949) | |||||||||||||
| Articles | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 231 | Articles/Clippings: Animals | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: hoop-snakes (1 p.); and animal kingdom (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 232 | Articles/Clippings: Ceilidh/Hootenanny | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: ceilidh folk celebration (1 p.) and related term hootenanny (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 233 | Clippings on: ceilidh folk celebration (1 p.) and related term hootenanny (1 p.) | ||||||||||||
| "Games Little People Play" (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 234 | Articles/Clippings: Dulcimer | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: constructing a dulcimer (3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 235 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Festivals | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Sun Valley Ketchum Folk Festival" (1 p.); "Festival of Music" (International Folkmusic Council, 2 pp.); "1st Annual Newport Folk Festival" (1 p.); and "5th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival" (3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 236 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Performers | ||||||||||||
| Articles and clippings on the following performers: Joan Baez, Napoleon Coste, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Woody Guthrie, Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, John Jacob Niles, Harry Partch, Jeannie Robertson, and Jean Thomas | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 237 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Popularity | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Songs for Our Time" (20 pp.); "Listen to the Folksingers" (February 1963, 6 pp.); and "Folk Frenzy" (July 1960, 1 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 238 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Recordings | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: the album Bolters Bushrangers and Duffers (1 p.); the Archive of Folksong at the Library of Congress (1 p.); and the recording studio Folkways Recordings (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 239 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music in Various Locations | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: Bahamas, Colonial Williamsburg, (French) Canada, Israel, Mallorca, New Orleans, Rome, South Africa, and Trinidad | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 240 | Articles/Clippings: Folklife | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following article: "I Drove Mules on the C. and O. Canal" (1 p.); and an untitled essay published in Times Farm (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 241 | Articles/Clippings: Folklore and Stories | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Problems of Collecting Oral Literature" (6 pp.); "Comeback of Goldilocks et al." (4 pp.); and "Ghost on the High Tor" (1 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 242 | Articles/Clippings: Folksong Collectors | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on the following collectors: Richard Dorson, Alan Dundes, Sam Eskin, Douglas Kennedy, and Alan Lomax | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 243 | Articles/Clippings: Houston Folklore Group | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on the Houston Folklore Group and Houston folk musicians: "Down Beat" (1 p.); and "Sound of Houston" (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 244 | Articles/Clippings: Musical Genres | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: bagpipes (highland), bluegrass, blues, carols, convivial songs, Creole slave songs, freedom songs, Indian (India) traditional songs, Israeli traditional folk music, Jewish music, and rock and roll | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 245 | Articles/Clippings: Ships | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "The She in Ships" (1 p.); and "Life on the Alabama " (34 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 246 | Articles/Clippings: Songs | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on American folksongs including song lyrics and/or scores (13 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 247 | Articles/Clippings: Spanish Articles | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Nuestra Musica" (written in Spanish, five-day article series, 5 pp.); and "Margen" (3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 248 | Articles/Clippings: Terms and Definitions | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "A Glossary of Fight Terms for TV Fans" (1 p.); "Gullah Dialect and Humanities" (1 p.); and a clipping on corrido narration (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 249 | Articles/Clippings: Ulster County Folklore Society | ||||||||||||
| Includes articles with references to the following: Sam Eskin, performers (Nigerian Trinidad Artists and Pete Seeger), organization of the Society, organizing a hootenanny festival, and individuals belonging to the Woodstock folk music coterie | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 250 | Articles/Clippings: Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Graffiti" (1 p.); "60 Ft. Serpent, Sighted Off Nantucket, Is Cross-eyed" (1 p.); and "Red Net Grows, Rightists Hear" (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 251 | Articles/Clippings: Posthumous | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Marcus Daly Enters Heaven" (6 pp.); and "Leadbelly in New York" (master photocopy, 4 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Ephemera | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 252 | Report: The Ethnic Culture Survey Report | ||||||||||||
| The Ethnic Culture Survey Report of the Middle States' Conference on Folk Culture provides an overview of the conference, abstracts discussion by morning session presenters, and summarizes other events in the conference (typed, 11 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 253 | Press Releases/Business Cards | ||||||||||||
| Includes releases and cards for the following individuals: H. Crab and Son, Daniel and the Deacon [Gerald E. Parsons, Jr.], Bill Hoffman, Paul C. Johnson, and Art Sutton | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 254 | Advertisements: Books | ||||||||||||
| For books related to folk music, history, and music instruments (5 ads) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 255 | Advertisements: Camps/Study Tours | ||||||||||||
| For travel related to world touring and folk music (4 ads) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 256 | Advertisements: Concerts/Festivals | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: Artists Equity Association press release (1 p.); Edinburgh University Society Folk Song Concert flyer (January 1964, 2 pp.); and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission press release (typed, 7 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 257 | Advertisements: Instruments and Toys | ||||||||||||
| Includes advertisements for the following: Mari guitar strings, Limberjack (folk toy), the Autoharp, La Casa de Las Guitarras (written in Spanish), and nylon strings for guitar | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 258 | Advertisements: Recordings | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following album advertisements: Heather and Glen and Texas Barrelhouse Piano . Also includes catalogs and miscellaneous advertising mailers for Folkways Recordings, Shenandoah Sales, Folk-Legacy Records, Inc., Colorado Folksong, Traditional Stringed Instruments, and World Tapes for Education | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 259 | Recording Notes | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: 1) Recording notes for the Old Harp Singers; includes notes on Jim Trentham, Dewey Cook, and Edna Cook (8" by 10", Knoxville Writing Tablet, handwritten, 20 pp. 2) Recording notes for Ayala Kaufman and George Woddail (5 leaves); typed lyrics from songs sung by Pete Seeger (2 songs), Robin Roberts (3 songs), Ruth Welcome (3 songs), and Lori Campbell (2 songs) 3) Eskin's notes on the UNESCO World Collection of Recorded Folk Music and Collection Universelle (7 pp.) 4) Evening set lists and notes on songs performed at the 5th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival (typed, 10 pp.) 5) Notes on sound recordings made in Malaga (handwritten, 3 pp., March 14th, 1960) 6) Track list for two recorded tapes of Spanish and Cuban music recorded by Eskin (typed, 3 pp.) 7) Notes on recordings made in Mexico (handwritten, 6 pp., January 1957) 8) Transcribed song lyrics (3 songs) 9) Track list of songs recorded (typed, 1 p., February 7, 1957) 10) Notes (3 songs) and track lists (5 tapes) for Spanish songs (master photocopy, 7 pp.) |
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| BOX 18 FOLDER 260 | Songs, Published | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following material: Folk-lore Musical Mallorquin v.II , a music book of songs and notations (in Spanish, 15 pp.); Popular Songs of the Ranch and Range (master photocopy of folksong lyrics, 54 songs); Song Sheet of the Arden Town Fair lyrics (11 songs); Festival Songs lyrics (14 songs); The Inniskilling Dragoon lyrics (3 songs); A Sampler of Japanese Songs pamphlet (32 pp.); The Old Settler placemat from the Acres of Clams Restaurant (1 p.); and photo copystand copies (3" by 4", 31 images) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 261 | The Gospel According to St. John: A Book for Your Daily Need | ||||||||||||
| Booklet: Bible chapter (3" by 4 1⁄2", 79 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Indexes | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 262 | Tape-by-Tape Song List | ||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 263 | Additional Tape Lists (NYSHA) | ||||||||||||
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