Description
This interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This collection consists of sound recordings, manuscripts, and graphic materials documenting English, Scottish, and American folk music, dance, children's games, and British folk drama and festivals. Content includes approximately 1,000 ballad texts and 850 tunes of the Francis J. Child canon; 500 sea songs; 1,000 other ballads and songs from Great Britain and the United States, particularly from North Carolina and Mississippi; 200 children's singing games, riddles, and nursery rhymes; 300 English and Scottish folk plays; miscellaneous folktales, Cornish carols, and African-American spirituals; with over 500 related photographic images and 40 drawings collected by James Madison Carpenter from 1928 to 1955. Additions to the collection, including an interview with Carpenter in 1972, lecture notes,
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Jabbour, Alan
Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Collection is open for research; access copies are available in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress. Please contact the Folklife Reading Room at folklife@loc.gov; 202-707-5510.;
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Mountain West Digital LibraryKeywords
- African Americans
- Antiquities
- Ballads, English
- Ballads, Scots
- Baths, Roman
- Carols
- Carpenter, James M
- Castles
- Children's Songs, English
- Christmas Music
- Christmas Plays
- Cornwall (County)
- Cornwall (England : County)
- Correspondence
- Country Life
- Dialect
- Drawings
- England
- English Language
- Ethnomusicological Collections
- Festivals
- Fiddle Tunes
- Fiddlers
- Field Recordings
- Folk Dancing
- Folk Dancing, English
- Folk Drama, English
- Folk Drama, Scottish
- Folk Festivals
- Folk Music
- Folk Songs
- Folk Songs, English
- Folk Songs, Scots
- Folk Songs, Scottish Gaelic
- Great Britain
- History And Criticism
- Holidays
- Interviews
- May Day
- Megalithic Monuments
- Mississippi
- Morris Dance
- Mumming
- Mumming Plays
- Music
- Nursery Rhymes
- Photographs
- Scotland
- Sea Songs
- Singing Games
- Social Life And Customs
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Sword Dance
- Texts
- United States
- Written Works