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MacColl/Seeger, 1846-2009 (bulk 1930-1995) (continued) | |||||||||||||
Correspondence, 1959-1994 (continued) | |||||||||||||
General Correspondence, 1959-1994 (continued) | |||||||||||||
1991 January-June (continued) | |||||||||||||
Includes: Keith McKenry, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Talking Kuwait Blues and other poems," and Paddy Tunney, "Where the Songs Do Thunder," chapter 2 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 191/5 | 1991 July-December and undated | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Johanna Halbeisen, John Seeger, Jeremy Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 191/6 | 1992 January-September | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Joe Bossom, Elsa Corbluth, Gershon Legman, Barbara Seeger, Kate Seeger, Mika Seeger, Mike Seeger, Tony Seeger, and Judith Tick | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 191/7 | 1992 October-December and undated | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Joe Bossom, Elsa Corbluth, Pete Seeger, and Toshi Seeger | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 191/8 | 1993 January-June | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Sonya Cohen, Elsa Corbluth, and Mika Seeger | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 192/1 | 1993 July- December and undated | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Elvira Hauschild, Laura Seeger, Pete Seeger, and Alexia Smith | |||||||||||||
Includes: Pete Seeger's additional lyrics to Ewan MacColl's "Joy of Living" | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 192/2 | 1994 January-June | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Sandra Kerr, Barbara Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Alexia Smith, and Hedy West | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 192/3 | 1994 July-December and undated | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth and Christy Moore | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 192/4 | undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 193 | Condolence Letters and Cards, 1989 | ||||||||||||
Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 193/1 | Letters (1 of 3), 1989 | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Billy Bragg, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Elvira Hauschild, Hamish Henderson, Louis Killen, Alan Lomax, Tom Paley, and John Seeger | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 193/2 | Letters (2 of 3), 1989 | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Paddy Tunney | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 193/3 | Letters (3 of 3), 1989 | ||||||||||||
Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Edmund Frow, Naomi Seeger Hvolbek, Sandra Kerr, Jeremy Seeger, and Naomi Seeger | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 193/4-6 | Cards, 1989 | ||||||||||||
BOX 194-202, 260, 263, 270-271 | Organizations, 1931-1993 | ||||||||||||
The Organizations subseries documents three entities in which Ewan MacColl and/or Peggy Seeger played significant roles: the Critics Group, the Singers Club, and the Workers Theatre Movement including the Theatre Workshop. The Critics Group, an offshoot of the Singers Club, provided MacColl and Seeger, as seasoned folk revival performers, with a venue to share their experience in the art of folk performance with Club performers, attendees, and others. The Critics Group came also to serve as a vehicle for MacColl to write and stage The Fesival of Fools--satirical plays performed during the new year season that recapitulated the previous year’s news. New and old folk songs and dancing were a feature of the programs. MacColl also wrote mumming plays and radio plays for the group. The bulk of the Critics Group materials document these programs through scripts and other documentation created to manage the productions. Annotated scripts show how each play developed as it was rehearsed. Peggy Seeger played a significant role in the productions managing the communications, finances, and staging. Her “books” are interesting for the director’s notes found on the verso of rehearsal script pagess. Photographs (virtually all unidentified as to performers or production) show how the performances were staged. The Singers Club was a membership organization operated by a volunteer management committee of members under the auspices of the Education Department of London Co-operative Society Ltd. between 1961 and January 1992. Originally based in the Princess Louise pub, the Club cycled through a number of different physical locations over its 30 year history. MacColl and Seeger played a significant role in the club's structure and organization and performed there nearly weekly, except when they were on extended tours outside London. Performance books and lists of songs sung by MacColl provide a window into the extent of their performing history, the songs they sang at the Club, and others who appeared there. Meeting minutes document the administration of the club and financial records including bar accounts, invoices, and cash books shed light on the money matters. Although theater loomed large in MacColl's early years, there is little documentation about his role in the development of the Theatre Workshop the most significant organization to come out of the Workers Theatre Movement in England. This sub-subseries contains mainly articles, photographs, and programs from various productions. Materials consist of cast and crew lists, music cue sheets, newsletters, photographs, rehearsal schedules, scripts, and stage layouts. |
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Arranged in three sub-subseries: Critics Group, Singers Club, and Workers Theatre Movement. | |||||||||||||
BOX 194-198, 260 MAPCASE-FOLDER 18 | Critics Group, 1965-1973 | ||||||||||||
Materials consist of articles, cast and crew lists, music cue sheets, newsletters, notated music, photographs, posters, programs, rehearsal schedules, scripts, and stage layouts. |
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Arranged alphabetically by file unit. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/1 | "Critics Group and the British Folksong Revival," 1968 | ||||||||||||
By Ewan MacColl | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/2 | Dissolution papers, 1972 | ||||||||||||
Festival of Fools see also Photographs - Festival of Fools |
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1965 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/3 | Charles Parker files | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/4 | Notes on weather lore | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/5-6 | Scripts | ||||||||||||
1967 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/7 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
Includes: Notes, programs, and rehearsal schedules | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 260/3 | Photograph album | ||||||||||||
Includes: Leaflet and program | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/8 | Script | ||||||||||||
Bound volume | |||||||||||||
Includes: List of units and participants, minutes, notes and corrections, and rehearsal schedules | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/9 | Script - D. G. Smith's book | ||||||||||||
Annotated | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 194/10 | Script - Peggy's book | ||||||||||||
Includes: Cue sheets, annotated script, and unit and participant lists | |||||||||||||
1968 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 260/4 | Artwork | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/1 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
Includes: Stage layout, units, and tape cues | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 263/8 | Music | ||||||||||||
Notated music | |||||||||||||
MAPCASE FOLDER 18 | Photographs | ||||||||||||
Mounted on cardboard | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/2 | Programs and songbook | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/3 | Script | ||||||||||||
Bound | |||||||||||||
Note: Annotated | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/4-5 | Scripts | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/6 | 1969 | ||||||||||||
1970 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/7 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
Includes: Cast lists, newsletters, rehearsal schedule, and script replacement pages | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 266/9 | Poster | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/8 | Programs | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/9 | Script | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 195/10 | Script - Peggy's book | ||||||||||||
Note: Annotated | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/1 | Script - Tony Rose's book | ||||||||||||
Bound | |||||||||||||
Includes: Cast and crew list, music cue sheet, newsletter, rehearsal schedules, stage layout, tech crew list, and units list | |||||||||||||
1971 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/2 | Programs | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/3 | Script | ||||||||||||
Bound | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/4 | Script | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/5 | Script - Peggy's book | ||||||||||||
Includes: Newsletters, rehearsal schedules, stage layout, and unit order and casting list | |||||||||||||
Note: Annotated | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/6 | Script - Running order | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/7 | Script - Unused texts | ||||||||||||
1973 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/8 | Advertisement | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 196/9 | MacColl Nonsense Stories, undated | ||||||||||||
Includes: Unidentified notated music and lyrics | |||||||||||||
Titles include:
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BOX-FOLDER 196/10 | MacColl Nonsense Stories - "Ulster Divided," undated | ||||||||||||
Includes: Ewan MacColl handwritten draft | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 263/7 | McMillan, Ian. Now Spread Yourselves Out and Listen to the Music, undated | ||||||||||||
Includes: Hamish MacColl dance choreography | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 197/1-6 | Performance photographs, 1972 and undated | ||||||||||||
Includes: Images of Bob Blair, John Faulkner, Sandra Kerr, Jim O'Connor, Brian Pearson, Mike Rosen, Buff Rosenthal, Peggy Seeger, Jack Warshaw, and Terry Yarnell | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 197/7 | "Landmarks" conference, 1965 March 3 | ||||||||||||
MacColl activities | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 197/8-10 | Folk song course, reels 1-26, 1964 | ||||||||||||
Transcripts | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 197/11 | Lecture notes for classes, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 197/12 | "The Sound of Folk Music" course, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 197/13 | Radio plays - Romeo and Juliet, 1966 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/1 | Radio plays - St. George and the Dragon, [1964-1966] | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/2 | "Ready, Steady, Stop" - actuality, 1965 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/3 | "Running a Class," 1969 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/4 | Miscellaneous files, 1965-1972 and undated | ||||||||||||
Includes: Exercises and lessons, feature evenings, repertoire, and notated music for "To Make a Fisherman" | |||||||||||||
Includes: Photographs of Bob Campbell, John Faulkner, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Denis Turner | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 249/13 | "Money" project - drafts and notes, 1965-1970 | ||||||||||||
Parker, Charles | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/5 | Folk music series - "Recording techniques," 1964 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/6 | Notes taken at business meeting of Critics Group, 1970 July | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/7 | "Some Aspects of Traditional Song: Tradition and the Tape Recorder," 1965 June | ||||||||||||
Photographs see Derbyshire - Critics Group |
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BOX-FOLDER 198/8 | Reading list and bibliography, 1964, 1973 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/9 | Research project on relationship between speech and song, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/10 | Research proposal on language of working class and middle class people, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 198/11 | Seeger, Peggy. "Principles of Folk Accompaniment," undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 252/4 to 253/1 | Song cards - Unassociated, undated | ||||||||||||
MAPCASE FOLDER 15 | St. George and the Dragon: A Modern Mumming Play, undated | ||||||||||||
Black and white photographs | |||||||||||||
BOX 199-201, 270-271 | Singers Club, 1968-1992 | ||||||||||||
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