Abstract Aisha Ivey’s research involves documenting the migration of American old time fiddling from the Appalachian region throughout the southeastern United States. Ivey’s research also focuses on documenting stylistic variables, bowing patterns, repertoire, influences, and learning styles in an effort to understand the dynamics of the tradition's migration. Ivey played her first fiddle tune at age 10. She continued formal music studies into college and graduate school and has focused on Irish...

Abstract These are fiddle tune transcriptions produced by three traditional music scholars whose Berea based research projects were supported by the Berea College Sound Archives Fellowship Program during 2006 and 2008 Erynn Marshall focused mainly on eastern Kentucky fiddle styles and song traditions in a similar way to her 1998 research conducted in West Virginia. In his transcriptions of tunes by several Kentucky fiddlers, Alan Jabbour paid particular attention to unison notes, a culturally...