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Series 4: Articles, reviews, and other writings (continued)
Subseries 1: Music genres (continued)
Jazz movement, 1978-1979; undated (continued)
Photocopied and original clippings from different publications.
BOX-FOLDER 11/4 Jug bands, undated
Two photocopied articles from different publications.
BOX-FOLDER 11/5 Music information, 1960; undated
Photocopy of one set of liner notes, an original clipping from a magazine, discographies, and one sheet of album release data. Includes two offprints: "A Discography of American coal miners' songs," by Archie Green; reprinted from Labor History, vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 1961), and "The Death of Mother Jones," reprinted from Labor History, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 1960).
BOX-FOLDER 11/6 Piano blues, 1967; undated
Photocopied articles from magazines.
BOX-FOLDER 11/7 Piano masters, after 1977
Typed essay, with corrections.
BOX-FOLDER 11/8 Policy blues, March 1963
Original clipping from a magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 11/9 Ragtime band, November 1964
Original clipping from a magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 11/10 R & B jazz guitar/"The best of blues and roots: guide to blues, gospel, R & B, and ragtime records," undated
Typed documents, with corrections, and an original magazine clipping.
BOX-FOLDER 11/11 Rock and roll, 1960-1966; undated
Typed draft of a document, with handwritten corrections, clippings from magazines, a promotional flyer, a copy of Rhythm and Blues Jazz Scrapbook, and an accompanying letter from Thurston Moore
BOX-FOLDER 11/12 Soul music, November 1965
An original copy of the advertising supplement to the Chicago Sun-Times. Includes a feature story on the singing group The Supremes.
BOX-FOLDER 11/13 Topical blues, 1965-1966
A typed copy of "Time brings about a change: Topical reference as an index of change in blues and gospel songs," a paper Welding submitted while at college (with handwritten notes and the grade from the teacher), plus two typed drafts, handwritten notes, and an offprint of an article by D. K. Wilgus, published in the Journal of American Folklore, LXXVIII (April-June 1965).
BOX-FOLDER 11/14 White blues, 1965-1970
Original newspaper and magazine clippings.
Subseries 2: Reference and research
BOX-FOLDER 11/15 Ames, Russell. "Implications of Negro Folk Song." Science and Society XV, no. 2 ( Spring 1951 ): 163-173.
Photocopy.
BOX-FOLDER 11/16 Ames, Russell. "Protest and Irony in Negro Folksong." Science and Society, vol. 14, no. 3 ( 1950 ): 193-213.
Photocopy.
BOX-FOLDER 11/17 Blackman, Bob. "Discover the Archive of Folk Song." Sing Out, 15-16. Reprinted from Folk Scene, vol. 1 (January 1975) .
Photocopy.
BOX-FOLDER 11/18 Bloomfield, Mike. "Me and Big Joe." High Times (December 1980) : 46-50, 77.
Photocopy.
BOX-FOLDER 11/19 Borneman, Ernest. "Creole Echoes, Part II." Jazz Review, vol. 2, no. 10 (November 1959) : 26-27.
Original clipping from the magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 11/20 Davis, Henry C. "Negro Folk-Lore in South Carolina." Journal of American Folk-Lore XXVII ( 1914 ): 241-254.
Photocopied essay.
BOX-FOLDER 12/1 Evans, David. "Afro-American One Stringed Instruments." Reprinted from Western Folklore, vol. 29, no. 4 (1971) : 229-246.
Original offprint, signed by the author.
BOX-FOLDER 12/2 Hearn, Lafcadio. "Levee Life: Haunts and Pastimes of the Roustabouts, Their Original Songs and Peculiar Dances." Cincinnati Commercial, March 17, 1876 ; reprinted in Children of the Levee, ed. by O.W. Frost, Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1957 : 61-83.
Photocopied essay.
BOX-FOLDER 12/3 Mooney, H.F. "Popular Music Since the 1920s: the Significance of Shifting Taste." American Quarterly, vol. 20 ( 1968 ): 67-85.
Photocopied essay.
BOX-FOLDER 12/4 Odum, Anna Kranz. "Some Negro Folk-Songs from Tennessee." The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 27 ( 1914 ): 255-265.
Photocopied essay.
BOX-FOLDER 12/5 Odum, Howard W. "Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry as Found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes" Journal of American Folk-Lore XXIV ( July-September 1911) and (October-December 1911) .
Photocopied essay.
BOX-FOLDER 12/6 Peabody, Charles. "Notes on Negro Music." Journal of American Folk-Lore 16 ( 1903 ): 148-152.
Photocopied essay.
BOX-FOLDER 12/7 Perrow, E. C. "Songs and Rhymes from the South." Journal of American Folk-Lore, XXVI ( 1913 ): 137-155.
Photocopied essay.
BOX-FOLDER 12/8 Puckett, Newbell N. "Religious Folk-Beliefs of Whites and Negroes." The Journal of Negro History, vol. 16, no. 1 ( January 1931 ): 9-35.
Original offprint.
BOX-FOLDER 12/9 Roberts, John Storm. "Africa: The Guitar's Role." Guitar Player, vol. 9, no. 11, ( November 1975 ): 22-24, 57.
Original clipping from the magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 12/10 Rozek, Michael. "Harmonic Variations." American Way ( October 1982 ): 72-76.
Photocopied article from the magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 12/11 "Virginia Illustrated." Harper's Monthly, vol. XII, no. LXVIII ( January 1856 ): 174-176.
Photocopied article from the magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 12/12 Welding, Pete. "Jazz: the Moldy Fig Lives On." Typed draft, undated .
Photocopy of a typed draft, with handwritten edits.
BOX-FOLDERS 12/16-17 Articles (1-2 of 2), 1968-1971; undated
Original clippings from newspapers and magazines, plus a brochure for Folkways recordings ( Fall 1968) .
BOX-FOLDER 12/18 Articles by Pete Welding, 1966-1969; undated
Typed original and photocopied drafts (with handwritten edits) and published clippings from magazines and a newspaper.
BOX-FOLDER 12/19 Auctions, April and August 1967; undated .
One issue each of Record Research, issue 83 ( April 1967 ) and issue 85 ( August 1967 ), and a ditto copy of a song/artist index (with handwritten edits).
BOX-FOLDER 12/20 Big Joe Turner, undated
Typed draft of an essay, a photocopied list from an unidentified publication, and a typed one-page list of CD sets.
BOX-FOLDER 12/21 Blues festivals, 1969; undated
Two original clippings from magazines.
BOX-FOLDER 12/22 Blues recordings, 1937-1971
Photocopied clippings from magazines and one original newspaper clipping.
Subseries 3: Various writings
BOX-FOLDER 12/23 Blues records (reviews), 1970-1976
Typed drafts, magazine clippings, a ditto of an item of correspondence from David Evans, and related documentation.
BOX-FOLDER 12/24 Blues Unlimited? [sic], undated
Typed sections of a draft.
BOX-FOLDER 13/1 Book reviews, 1971; undated
Original magazine and newspaper clippings, plus a photocopy of a typed draft of a book review.
BOX-FOLDER 13/2 Brochure and liner notes, undated
Handwritten and typed drafts (with handwritten edits) of brochures for Testament Records, a discography, and other writings.
BOX-FOLDERS 13/3-4 Broken-up files or missing pages, 1962-1977; undated
Typed draft liner notes, held notes, and various writings about Howlin' Wolf, Rex Stewart, Erroll Garner, and others, and related documentation.
BOX-FOLDER 13/5 Capitol Records: 1945 catalog, 1945
Photocopy.
BOX-FOLDER 13/6 "Caught in the Act" - reviews, etc., 1966-1967; undated
Original clipping from a magazine, with reviews of live music performances.
BOX-FOLDER 13/7 Down Beat - reviews, 1961-1967; undated
Original clippings from magazines, plus two typed draft documents (one on gospel music, the other about Aretha Franklin; both with handwritten edits).
BOX-FOLDER 13/8 Harry Oster: Folk-Lyric Records, 1959-1963; undated
Handwritten and typed correspondence to Welding from Oster, plus copies of a promotional brochure for Folk-Lyric Records (one with handwritten notations), typed drafts of writings, and magazine clippings. A photo has been relocated to box-folder 22/8.
BOX-FOLDER 13/9 Maxwell Street, July 27, 1969
A clipping from the Los Angeles Times.
BOX-FOLDER 13/10 McCormick's "Treasury of Field Recordings" and Dobell's folk labels, 1960-1961; undated
Typed and handwritten correspondence to Welding (most are from Mark Dobell), typed drafts of writings, newspaper and magazine clippings, and related documentation.
BOX-FOLDER 13/11 Memphis, Tennessee, January 7, 1977
Photocopied article from The New York Times.
BOX-FOLDER 13/12 Migration patterns, March 1960
An original article published in Fortune, regarding African American population migrations in the U.S.
BOX-FOLDER 13/13 Mississippi [state], February 27, 1966
An original article published in the Chicago Sun-Times.
BOX-FOLDER 13/14 Notes: Ray Charles, Shuggie Otis, John Lee Hooker, 1994; undated
Typed drafts of liner notes, plus an invoice for Sony Legacy Records regarding Welding's work on liner notes, and a brief proposal for a Sonny Terry CD release.
BOX-FOLDER 13/15 Notes for book: Muddy Waters - Charley Patton manuscripts - Rhythm & Blues, undated
Typed drafts of writings and related documentation.
BOX-FOLDER 14/1 Profiles, undated
Original and photocopied clippings from magazines, plus an original typed one-page document about the nature of jazz.
BOX-FOLDER 14/2 Race labels (Bob Koester), 1948; undated
A writing by Koester on race labels, plus a fold-out record dating chart (part 1).
BOX-FOLDER 14/3-4 Reviews: Testament Records; 1959-1969, undated
Original clippings and one faxed article from magazines, plus complete magazines:
Jazz Journal ( August 1964 )
Jazz Journal ( September 1964 )
Code ( March 1965 )
Jazz Monthly ( May 1965 )
BOX-FOLDER 14/5 Smithsonian blues set, undated
Handwritten and typed song lists.
BOX-FOLDER 14/6 Song record information, undated
Photocopied pages from a published, unidentified work.
BOX-FOLDER 14/7 Superstition, 1964-1966
Original newspaper and magazine clippings.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Various writings by Pete Welding, undated
Typed writings, both complete and incomplete, including an essay Welding wrote on the book Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 Xanadu Records, undated
Photocopied announcement of the merger of Xanadu Records and Cream Records, and a photocopied, typed writing about Xanadu Records.
BOX-FOLDER 14/10 61-15000 List, undated
Partial copy of a typed discography. Folder title taken from the original folder received from the donor.
Series 5: Publications
BOXES 15-18 Issues of magazines that include writings by Welding, and information he used as reference material. Many of these issues include reviews and other content directly related to this collection.
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