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Federal Music Project - Eastern Kentucky Folk Song Project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0121 SAA 121

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 131 song lyrics and tune transcriptions of songs, ballads, hymns, and fiddle tunes collected in about 1936 by Federal Music Project workers in Boyd, Floyd, and Rowan Counties in eastern Kentucky. In a few instances there are either lyrics without musical transcriptions or transcriptions without lyrics.

Dates

  • created: 1936-1936

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on use of this material other than federal copyright regulations. Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Extent

2.00 ms_boxes

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement Note

Arrangement is alphabetical by song.

Method of Acquisition

The material is in photocopied form and was compiled by Berea College Library staff from a lyric collection at the Louisville, Kentucky Free Public Library and a related set of transcriptions found in the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Other Descriptive Information

BCA 0121 SAA 121

Processing Information

The finding aid was created in July 2015.

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