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Gladys Jameson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.28
Abstract
This collection is comprised of manuscripts, correspondence, and related publications of Gladys Jameson, a folk ballad collector and member of the Berea College Music Department from 1916 to 1954.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1920-1980
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940
McLain Family Band Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0086 SAA 086
Abstract
The McLain Family Band came to be as the result of an interest in Bluegrass music developed by Raymond K. McLain (1928-2003) while Director of Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky where he had moved in 1954 with his wife, Betty. This interest owed much to both family influence and formal academic training. McLain’s mother had been director of Southern Folk Life Studies at the University of Alabama. He had majored in music theory at Denison University and done graduate work...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2001
Rolf Hovey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.26
Abstract
These are the personal papers and records of Rolf Hovey, founder and director of the Berea College Chapel Choir and longtime Chairman of the Music Department. Materials include writings, correspondence, teaching materials, student projects, and numerous subject files including information regarding Berea College organizations and groups.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1950s-1970s