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Series 2: Sound recordings
Note: Track lists and other documentation exist for some sound recordings, and can be found in Series I, box 31.
Subseries 1: Sound tape reels
Note: Many of the Sea Island Singers recordings are from summer workshops at Idyllwild Arts Foundation in Idyllwild, California.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR001 Bess Hawes beginning guitar class, circa 1960
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR002 Bessie Jones, Barbara Dane and Georgia Sea Island Singers, November 15, 1962
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR003 Interview between Barbara Dane and Bessie Jones, November 15, 1962
After Folk Song Concert at San Fernando Valley State College.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR004 Bess Hawes's beginning guitar class, 1963
Spring semester.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR005 Idyllwild concert; summer, 1964
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR006 Sea Island tape, 1965
Tape 5-2-B.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR007 Sea Island Game tapes; Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-3.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR008 Georgia Sea Island Children's Games, Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-4 AB; Tuesday, 2nd week.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR009 Sea Island Children's Workshop, Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-5 AB; Thursday 2nd week
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR010 Sea Island Children's Games, Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-6 AB; Wednesday, 2nd week.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR011 Sea Island; Interview at Ed Pearl's house, July 26, 1965
Tape 5-7, with Bessie and Emma.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR012 Sea Island Singers; children's games, 1965
Tape 5-8-A; Fri. 2nd week.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR013 Georgia Sea Islanders, July 29, 1965
Tape 5-9-AB.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR014 Georgia Sea Islands, July 29, 1965
Tape 5-10-AB.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR015 Georgia Sea Islands, August 3, 1965
Tape 5-11-AB; recorded at Fairview Hospital, last day of stay.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR016 Tape #30, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR017 Tape #31, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR018 Tape #37, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR019 Tape #38, circa 1965
Written on leader: Submitted by Joan E. Barber, Esthetics of Non-Literate Peoples, January, 1962; "This is All Our Water".
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR020 Georgia Sea Island Singers at Idyllwild, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR021 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 2.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR022 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 3.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR023 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 4.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR024 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 5.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR025 KPFK Hawes interview with Ed Cray, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR026 Sea Island clapping; John Greenway program, University of Colorado, circa 1965-1967
Summer.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR027 Negro children's games, November 2, 1967
75th St school.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR028 Georgia Sea Island Singers, May 21, 1969
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR029 Georgia Sea Island Singers, May 21, 1969
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR030 John Davis interview, Santa Monica, May, 1972
Note: "Both of us exhausted."
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR031 Molokan tape, circa 1975
May be a sample tape. Bess brought the Molokans to the California Heartland segment of the Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, 1975
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR032 Bessie Jones special dubs, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR033 Dupe of 1965 recordings: Sea Island, circa 1965
Tape 5-5 AB.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR103 "Bess Hoot #2," May 21, 1955
Recorded at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, on Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc002 and afc2014008_dc003.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR104 "Bess Hoot," May 21, 1955
Recorded at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, on Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc001 and afc2014008_dc004.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR105 Various recordings, 1953-1955
Side 1: Tracks 1-5 recorded in 1954 at the home of Frank and Vicky Lang, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 6-18 recorded spring 1953 at the home of Marcia Berman, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 19-20 recorded September 1955 at a concert at Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley. Side 2: Track 1 remnant of a Sam Hinton concert. Tracks 2-6 recorded April 1955 at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 7-15 recorded April 1955 at the home of Everett and Boots (Mary) Jones, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 16-20 recorded September 1955 at a concert at Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc005 and afc2014008_dc006.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR106 "Bess Hoot," August 12, 1955
Recorded at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc009 and afc2014008_dc010.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR107 Berkeley Concert; Assistance League Concert, 1953-1955
Side 1: Recorded in 1953 at a concert in Berkeley, CA. Recorded by H. Cohn. Side 2: Recorded in June 1955 at a concert in Los Angeles, CA sponsored by the Assistance League.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc007 and afc2014008_dc008.
Subseries 2: Sound cassettes
Note: SR072-SR087 are likely recordings for an ethnomusicology course taught by Hawes at SFVSC.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR034 Albanian folk music, from A. L. Lloyd; Chamarita, Cal RA 1975, 1975
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR035 Micronesian Music Project sampler, Truk and Ponape; Kim Bailey, 1978-1979
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR036 Pacific Trip August 1983, Hawaii/Guam, Raymond Kane, 1983
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR037 2nd tape of notes, Pacific trip, Saipan, 1983
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR038 Bessie Jones funeral, sermon, graveside, psychic; Ko Nimo (Ghana), 1984
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR039 Parsley, Sage and Politics: The Lives and Music of Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, circa 1985
Side 1 and Side 2.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR040 Parsley, Sage and Politics: The Lives and Music of Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, circa 1985
Side 3 and Side 4.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR041 Parsley, Sage and Politics: The Lives and Music of Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, circa 1985
Side 5 and Side 6.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR042 The Ballad of John Axon (#1), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR043 Song of a Road (#2), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR044 Singing the Fishing (#3), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR045 The Big Hewer (#4), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR046 The Body Blow (#5), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR047 On the Edge (#6), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR048 The Fight Game (#7), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR049 The Travelling People (#8), circa 1985
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR050 Bess's "Folklore and Power" lecture; Bess's Fife Honor Lecture, Logan, Utah, 1986
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR051 South Carolina; prison interview; aerobics, 1986
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR052 Secretarial #1, February 3, 1986
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR053 Bess Lomax Hawes's talk, East-West Center, Honolulu, March 28, 1986
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR054 Samoa, 1987
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR055 Samoa II, February 28, 1987
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR056 Bess Lomax Hawes and C. J. Johnson on WCDU, September 29, 1987
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR057 Bess's trip to Bermuda, February, 1989
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR058 Cook Islands #1, 1992
Rarotonga Church and Atui.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR059 Cook Islands #2, 1992
Festival Opening.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR060 Cook Islands #3, 1992
Rarotonga religious music, 2nd Sunday.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR061 Cook Islands #4, 1992
Festival stage (small) and hotel.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR062 Cook Islands #5, 1992
Festival, daytime sites.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR063 Cook Islands #6, 1992
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR064 Cook Islands #7, 1992
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR065 Cook Islands #9, 1992
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR066 Tamburitza [Slonina], 1992
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR067 Arthur Galbraith Memorial, circa 1993
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR068 "Taking a Breath" Bess Hawes keynote address, 1994
New York Folklore Society, 50th Annual Fall Conference.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR069 Bess Lomax Hawes, Voices, January 15, 2000
At Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR; Tape 1 of 2, listening copy.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR070 Bess Lomax Hawes, Voices, tape 2 of 2, January 15, 2000
At Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR; Tape 2 of 2, listening copy.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR071 Alan Jabbour 1, circa 2003
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