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Eastern Kentucky Folk Dancing Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0116 SAA 116

Scope and Contents

Thirty-one audio cassette recordings and transcripts of interviews that document the development of traditional square and related dance activity in southeastern Kentucky. The interviews were with mostly elderly residents of Harlan, Letcher, and Leslie Counties and were recorded by Peter Rogers in 1975. (See Peter Rogers' report of his work in Box 4.)

Listen To interview recordings and / or read transcripts

Dates

  • created: 1975

Conditions Governing Access

Listen to interviews and read transcripts by following the links for each recording as listed in Collection Box 1. There are no restrictions on use of this material other than federal copyright regulations. Interviews can also be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Extent

5.00 ms_boxes

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement Note

The collection is arranged by:

(1)    Original Audio Cassette Interview Recordings – Box 1

(2)    Original Audio Cassette Interview Recordings – Box  2

(3)    CD Interview Listening Copies – Box 3

(4)     Interview Transcripts - Box 4

(5)     Audio Cassette Listening Copies - Box 5

Other Descriptive Information

BCA 0116 SAA 116

Processing Information

The finding aid was created in July 2015; updated February 2016. Links to digital recordings added 2018.

Title
Archon Finding Aid Title
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the Berea College Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Hutchins Library
100 Campus Drive
Berea Kentucky 40404 US
859.985.3262