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Berea College

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Celebration of Traditional Music

 Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract

Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -

Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection

 Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series Series 4
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky.  She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916

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  • Subject: Folk music -- Appalachian Region. X

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African Americans. 1
Appalachian Region. 1
Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
Ballads, English -- Kentucky. 1
Berea (Ky.) 1