Michael Alpert collection
Recordings of interviews, conversations, social events, rehearsals, performances, and presentations by klezmer musicians and Yiddish folk singers collected primarily in New York City, Los Angeles, and Eastern Europe.
American Dialect Society Collection (a.k.a. The Hanley Collection; The Hanley Discs)
The American Dialect Society Collection contains field recordings of samples of regional American speech recorded between 1931-1937 for the Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE) and the Dictonary of American Regional English (DARE), as well as related materials.
American Folk Blues Festival Photograph Collection, 1962-1965
Anne Grimes collection of Ohio folk music
Field recordings of folk music from Ohio and neighboring regions, plus related manuscripts and photographs collected by Anne Laylin Grimes.
Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo collection on Latin American folklore
Collected publications pertaining to Latin American folklore and musical traditions from the library of Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo, Brazilian folklorist and musicologist.
Brenda Beck collection from Tamil Nadu, India
Peggy V. Beck collection
Agnes Bellinger Tlingit Collection
Collection comprises two videocassettes and a pamphlet on traditional music, dance, and other customs of the Tlingit nation of southeast Alaska.
Sol Biderman Collection
Brazilian chapbooks, xilogravuras woodblock illustrations and woodblocks, sound recordings and additional research material on the subject of Brazilian literatura de cordel collected by Sol Biderman. The collection also includes a play, poems, and other writings by Biderman along with his collection of Chicano corridos and poems.
Kenneth M. Bilby Jamaican Maroon Collection
An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, moving images, and accompanying materials that document the music and dance of Jamaican Maroons, particularly the Kromanti Dance ritual complex recorded by Kenneth M. Bilby in 1977-1979, and in 1991.
Connie Regan-Blake collection, 1974-2014
Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection
Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection
An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, photographs, and accompanying documentation of Moroccan folk, popular, and art music. The collection includes recordings Paul Bowles made in 1959 during a four-month field project sponsored by the Library of Congress with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation as well as additional field recordings that he and Christopher Wanklyn made between 1960 and 1962.
David Bromberg collection
Collection of video recordings, photographs, promotional and publicity materials, clippings, posters, and ephemera from the career of David Bromberg, musician, singer-songwriter, and luthier, from around 1962 to 2013, including recordings of his performances at concerts and folk festivals around the United States as well as overseas and various interviews with Bromberg. Includes photographs of other folk music and popular music performers.
Brooklyn Rediscovery Folklife Study Project collection
Mary Sheppard Burton Collection
The collection contains hooked rugs and documentation of the craftsmanship of rug hooking artist, Mary Sheppard Burton, of Germantown, Maryland. Her Tell Me ‘Bout Series consists of 12 rugs created between 1993 and 2005 that interpret the history of her family.
Caffè Lena collection
Roxane Connick Carlisle collection
James Madison Carpenter Collection
Isabel Gordon Carter Collection
Collection of correspondence, notes, and photographs related to Isabel Gordon Carter's research and publications on Appalachian ballads and folktales, and customs from 1921 to 1942.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance collection
Vida Chenoweth collection
Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection
Civil Rights History Project collection
Collection of 145 filmed oral history interviews of 175 participants in the United States civil rights movement and their family members.
Diana Cohen Hopi Religion Collection
A sound recording of songs and discussion about aspects of Hopi religion, including dance. It was made by Diana Cohen in the spring of 1974 in Second Mesa, Arizona, and documents an informal gathering of families at the home of Ferrell Secakuku, leader of his village, songwriter, and dancer.