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Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0031 SAA 029
Abstract
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was particularly noted for his memory collection of 300 ballads, tunes and tales and the establishment in 1927, of the Ashville, North Carolina based Mountain Dance and Folk Festival which has continued to the present time. During his long career, Lunsford practiced law, published a song collection, and made several documentary recordings, while continuing to perform (vocal, banjo, and fiddle) collect songs, and write a few of his own (including “That Good Old Mountain...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874-1973
Jean Ritchie Folk Music of Ireland and Scotland Recordings
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0145 SAA 145
Abstract
Jean Ritchie (1922-2015), was a Kentucky singer and song writer. She recieved a Fulbright scholarship in 1952 and 1953, to study the links between her family's music traditions and those from England, Ireland, and Scotland. She tape recorded many hours of performances and interviews. Irish performers include Con O'Shea, Lilly Moore, Sarah Makem, Maggie Hughes, F. Keating, John Hoare, Michael Cronin, Micheal Reagh, Sean O'Tuama, Elizabeth Cronin, and Seamis Ennis. Instrumentation includes...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952 - 1953
John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0006 SAA 005
Abstract
John F. Smith taught in the Berea College Normal School. As part of his Composition and Rhetoric course, Smith asked students to write down the names of banjo and fiddle songs and tunes known to them in their home districts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. The results are a large, varied body of material that includes ballads, songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, and games. Several students also included lists of musical instruments present in their home communities and descriptions of music...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box: 1
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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
William H. Tallmadge Baptist Hymnody Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0035 SAA 033
Abstract
Tallmadge earned degrees in Music at Oberlin College (Ohio), in 1940 (B.M.) and 1946 (M.M.). From 1949-1976 he was on the faculty of State University College in Buffalo, New York where his research and teaching concentrated on both Anglo and African American popular musical genres. He continued this non-classical focus at Berea (1976-1984) with course work on the history of Jazz and its relation to newer musical trends such as Rock, Soul, and Disco. Articles published as a result of his...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1980
Wilson Reeves Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0141 SAA 141
Abstract
Wilson Reeves (1925-2008) was born in Fleming County, KY and attended Berea College. He was an avid amateur radio operator and collected unique and original recordings, with an extensive library of old-time and mountain music.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1983