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Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection
This collection consists of both handwritten/typewritten and published texts and music notations dating primarily from the period 1911-1950. It includes ballads, shape-note and other hymns, rhymes, spirituals, shanties, labor, and commercial country music songs. Also included are related magazine articles, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, excerpts from music faculty annual reports, and correspondence between Berea College staff and music researchers.
Cratis D. Williams Audio / Video Reference Collection
James Watt Raine Ballad Collection
Jean Ritchie Folk Music of Ireland and Scotland Recordings
John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection
Josiah Combs Collection
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Mary Wheeler Ballad Collection
Over Home Radio Programs
Talitha Ethel Powell McClure Ballad Collection
Talitha Ethel McClure (nee Powell) compiled ballad texts in 1915 by for a contest initiated by Berea College President, William G. Frost. McClure received the prize for collecting the most lyrics. Her mother, Talitha Powell (nee Davis), provided ballad texts to British collector, Cecil Sharp, during a visit to Berea in 1917.