Barbara Kunkle Kentucky Traditional Music Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: BCA 0092 SAA 092

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Barbara Kunkle Kentucky Traditional Music Collection Audio Recordings

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Scope and Contents

Fifty-six audio field recordings (1970s) of interviews and performances that document the repertoire and styles of several Kentucky fiddlers, banjo players, and ballad singers mainly from the state’s northeastern region. Also included in the collection are a number of home-recording of fiddle playing, conversations and singing and recordings of radio shows and folk festivals.

Dates

created: 1937-1979

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. A sampling of audio files may be heard online.

Extent

7.00 ms_boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement Note

Original recording in open reel and cassette tape format are found in boxes 1 through 5. Reference/listening copies of select recordings are in boxes 5 through 7. See box list for more information.

Other Descriptive Information

BCA 0092 SAA 092

Processing Information

The collection was arranged by Harry Rice, Sound Archivist. The finding aid was created by Harry Rice and Lori Myers-Steele, Collections Archivist, in 2015. The finding aid was updated in 2016 to reflect the addition of reference copies. Links to digital recordings added 2019.