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Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0019 SAA 018
Abstract
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.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911-1975
Cratis D. Williams Audio / Video Reference Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0146 SAA 146
Abstract
Cratis Williams was a scholar and folklorist who was an early leader in establishing the discipline of Appalachian Studies. He was an eastern Kentucky native but spent the major part of his academic career teaching literature, speech, and drama at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
The audio and video recordings in this collection document Williams' class lectures, interviews, and public performances at Berea College during the period 1971-1985. In varying combinations,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1971-1981
James Watt Raine Ballad Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0007 SAA 006
Abstract
Raine was born (1869) in Scotland and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 12 years old. The family lived in West Virginia and, later, in Arkansas. Raine was educated at Oberlin College and Union Seminary in New York. Ordained to the ministry, he held pastorates in Ohio and New York. Married twice, first to Harriett May (who died one year after their marriage) and to Clara Martz. Raine had six children.
In 1906, Raine became an English instructor at Berea...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1949
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...
Dates:
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940
Josiah Combs Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0071 SAA 071
Abstract
Born in Hazard, Kentucky, Josiah H. Combs (1886-1960) grew up in Hindman where he learned many folksongs from family members, especially his mother. In 1902 he entered the newly established Hindman Settlement School, where his songs came to the attention of school director, Katherine Pettit (who sent the words of several of these songs to folk music scholar George Lyman Kittredge who arranged for their publication in the Journal of American Folklore.)
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910-1960
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Mary Wheeler Ballad Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0076 SAA 076
Abstract
Born in 1892 in Paducah, Kentucky, Ms. Wheeler was the daughter of a well-known attorney. It was part of a young society woman's education to be trained in music, but Ms. Wheeler took this training and made it her life’s work. She is best known for two books she authored: Kentucky Mountain Folk Songs (1937) and Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1982
Over Home Radio Programs
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0112 SAA 112
Scope and Contents
Thirteen non-commercial audio cassette recordings, Dec. 1988 - June 1990, of Over Home, a radio program series documenting Western North Carolina traditional musicians and storytellers that aired on WNCW in Spindale, North Carolina.
Listen To Programs / Read Play Lists
Episodes cover...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-1990
Talitha Ethel Powell McClure Ballad Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0034 SAA 032
Abstract
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.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1980