Music -- Appalachian Region.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection
Collection — 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
Celebration of Traditional Music
Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract
Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -
John Courter Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.11
Abstract
John Courter was an organist, carillonneur, and professor of music at Berea College. Courter joined the Berea College faculty in 1971 as a teacher and organist. After retiring from teaching in 2007, he continued to serve as College Organist and was also the College Carillonneur. In addition, to work at the Courter was the organist at Union Church and a long-time contributor to the music of St. Clare Catholic Church, both in Berea.
A native of Lansing, Michigan, Courter earned a bachelor’s...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1980-2010