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Gemini 13 Memories, Eddie Key
Gemini 13 Memories, Eddie Key
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Answers given by Eddie Key to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire in winter of 2019. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 - Relating To (Sc 3476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 - Relating To (Sc 3476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3476. “Builders of Destiny,” a radio script written by V. Jay dramatizing the life of composer Stephen Foster, for broadcast on WLW radio, Cincinnati, Ohio, on 12 January 1952.
Crawford, Margaret (Fa 1332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crawford, Margaret (Fa 1332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 1332. Collection of folk songs amassed by Margaret Crawford for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes both published songs and songs collected from informants from south central Kentucky. Crawford includes song, name of informant, date of birth, city of residence, and date collected. Also includes a brief essay titled “The Spiritual: An American Folksong.”
Feintuch, Burt, 1949-2018 (Fa 1315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Feintuch, Burt, 1949-2018 (Fa 1315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1315. Collection of folklife and folk arts by Burt Feintuch, ethnographer of traditional music and professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University (WKU) from 1975 to 1988. Includes the session materials from the Folklife and the Public Sector: Assessment and Prognosis Conference at WKU, 1985, along with the manuscript and proof pages from his book Kentucky Folkmusic. Recordings of musicians and singers and interviews with the same in Barren, LaRue, Logan, Marshall, Metcalfe, Monroe, Muhlenburg, Todd, and Warren counties in Kentucky and Warren County, Tennessee.
The Impact Of Musical Components On Retrieval Performance, Adkins Franklin Dane
The Impact Of Musical Components On Retrieval Performance, Adkins Franklin Dane
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Many students claim that they can study well while listening to music (Anderson & Fuller, 2010; Patton, Stinard, & Routh, 1983), but how does listening to music affect students’ ability to encode and recall studied information? Previous research on background music and attention has revealed mixed results, with some studies indicating that background music can help reduce inattentional blindness (Beanland, Allen, & Pammer, 2011), while others suggest that music may hinder the attention of the listener (by Shih, Huang, & Chaing, 2012). Additionally, individual differences in working memory capacity impact one’s ability to store and retrieve information, as well as …
Wiseman, Michelle (Fa 1306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wiseman, Michelle (Fa 1306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1306. Student project titled “Folk Songs and Legends,” which includes survey sheets of folk songs and folk legends collected in Indiana and Kentucky. Sheets may include folk songs, lyrics, musical scores, Brown Collection variant number, legends, informant’s name, age, and address.
Robison, Jesse (Fa 1298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robison, Jesse (Fa 1298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1298. Project titled “Military Songs and Cadence Rhymes,” which includes survey sheets of songs and cadences collected in Warren County, Kentucky and Marian, Smyth County, Virginia. Survey sheets may include descriptions, song lyrics, tunes, and informant name and location.
Thomason, Mary Jean (Healan) (Fa 1299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomason, Mary Jean (Healan) (Fa 1299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1299. Project titled “Ten Broeck and Mollie: An Intriguing Puzzle,” which includes variants of the texts for “Ten Broeck and Mollie” and “Skewball” collected primarily from Jesse Blair in Grayson County, Kentucky. Project may include texts, song lyrics, tunes, photos, and informant name and location.
Briscoe, Richard Blake (Fa 1292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Briscoe, Richard Blake (Fa 1292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1292. Student folk studies project titled “’The Music Will Preserve Itself’: The Lost River Strummers Dulcimer Club,” which includes the history of Southern Appalachian traditional music and the Lost River Strummers Dulcimer Club of Warren County, Kentucky. Sheet music for dulcimers is included.
Mccartt-Jackson, Sarah, B. 1982 (Fa 1290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccartt-Jackson, Sarah, B. 1982 (Fa 1290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1290. Student collection titled “’Clogging’s Just Clogging’: The Richard McHargue Cloggers and Approaches to Vernacular Percussive Dance Study” in which Sarah McCartt-Jackson conducts an interview with Richard McHargue, a clogging instructor from Richmond, Kentucky. The interview contains McHargue’s early dancing memories, clogging terms, and opinions about the contemporary state of clogging. The collection also contains a partial transcript, fieldnotes, interview questions, content index, photographs, and the recorded audio interview on CD.
Wilgus, Donald Knight, 1918-1989 (Sc 3401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilgus, Donald Knight, 1918-1989 (Sc 3401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3401. Letter, 25 July 1960, to friends from Donald Knight Wilgus and family, Los Angeles, California, describing their activities and travel since moving to California, including Wilgus’s work at the University of California, Los Angeles. Includes a review of Wilgus’s book, Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898, and the premier issue (1963) of Hootenanny: The National Folk Singing Magazine, with an article about Wilgus and UCLA’s folk music studies program.
Coggan, Forrest Winston, 1926-2018 (Fa 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coggan, Forrest Winston, 1926-2018 (Fa 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1282. Correspondence between Forrest Coggan and Sarah Gertrude Knott as well as other board members, sponsors, teachers, and business partners who conducted work with the National Folk Festival Association. .
Yager, Liz (Fa 1276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Yager, Liz (Fa 1276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1276. Student folk studies project [“Songs and Epitaphs,”] which includes survey sheets with with the lyrics of folk songs and epitaphs in Oldham County, Kentucky. Sheets may include brief description of the folk song, lyrics, epitaph, date collected, and informant’s name and age.
Sound And Emotion: The Use Of Music In The Cinematic Experience, Sarah Schulte
Sound And Emotion: The Use Of Music In The Cinematic Experience, Sarah Schulte
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
To portray the radical importance of music in stimulating emotion within cinema, to appeal to an audience’s selective attention to sounds, and to detail the process of creating an original film score, I have scored WKU student Tori Mills’ short film Come Up for Air. Film music is traditionally defined as any music that accompanies a film, though today it more specifically refers to music intended to advance the film’s narrative. Music has played an increasingly important role in transmitting emotion to film audiences, feeding the psychological connection between spectator and on-screen action. To achieve this emotional connection, a film …
Fire And Skye: The Magic And Misadventure Of Filming Traditional Music Videos In Scotland, Katie Daniels
Fire And Skye: The Magic And Misadventure Of Filming Traditional Music Videos In Scotland, Katie Daniels
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
As part of my study-abroad experience during the fall of 2018, I was awarded a Benjamin H. Gilman Scholarship. One of the components of this nationally competitive scholarship was to complete a follow-on service project to share my experiences abroad with a wider audience and give back to the community. My project was to bring my harp and a DSLR camera and film 4-5 music videos, contextualizing Scottish music in the Scottish landscape and capture, at least a little bit, a sense of what it was to be abroad. The final project consists of four videos, each one highlighting a …
Ua12/2/2 2019 Talisman: Paradise, Wku Student Life
Ua12/2/2 2019 Talisman: Paradise, Wku Student Life
WKU Archives Records
2019 Talisman yearbook.
- Good, Hannah. Paradise
- Morgan, Chelsea. What’s Your Paradise – Caden Dosier, Kenny Ott, Renesha Griffin, Jade Grabeel
- Rzayeva, Manzar. Don’t Wake Me Up Yet
- Fletcher, Griffin. Meet the Parrot Heads – Jimmy Buffett
- McCormick, Dillon. The Birds & the Bees – Sex Education
- Mohr, Olivia. The Gods Aren’t Dead – Samantha Williams, Paganism
- Robb, Hayley. Beyond the Rep – John Huffman, Buddy House, CrossFit
- Frodge, Jordan. Darkness Has Enveloped Me
- Baumgarten, Alex. Make Room – Bedrooms
- Brett, Amelia. A Place to Grow – Baker Arboretum
- Gordon, Zora. Backyard Attractions – Lost River Cave, Flea Land, Historic Railpark …
Stewart, Karen (Fa 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stewart, Karen (Fa 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1273. Student paper titled “Negro Gospel Music at Barnes Chapel Methodist Church” in which Karen Stewart describes a singular all-day “singing” held at the church in Beaver Dam, Kentucky, in February 1971. Stewart offers a brief description of her fieldwork methods including research and recording and provides an abbreviated background on each of her musical informants. Stewart also recounts the songs that were sung and notes recurrent themes throughout the music. The paper also includes the words to each hymn, a black and white photograph of the performers, and two reel-to-reel audiotapes.
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 - Relating To (Sc 3360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 - Relating To (Sc 3360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3360. Material relating to commemorations of Stephen Foster, a Pennsylvania native and composer of the song My Old Kentucky Home: postage stamps, envelopes, and invitations to a bust unveiling at New York University, to Stephen Collins Foster Memorial Programs at the University of Pittsburgh, and to the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum, White Springs, Florida. Includes notices for a 1944 biography, a bibliographic review, and a tribute to Josiah K. Lilly, a collector of Foster manuscripts.
Shuffett, Carolyn (Fa 1271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shuffett, Carolyn (Fa 1271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1271. Student folk studies project titled “Green County Tales,” which includes titles of local folk legends and songs in Green County, Kentucky. Descriptions may include title of the legend or song, lyrics, informant’s name and address.
Welker, Susan (Fa 1264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Welker, Susan (Fa 1264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1264. Student folk studies project titled “Research on the Hazel Daniel Collection of Folksongs,” which includes song titles of traditional folk ballads from the Hazel Daniel Folksong Collection. Descriptions may include title of the ballad, classification, alphabetical list, chronological list, and where published with page number.
Wilson, Debbe Jean (Fa 1263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Debbe Jean (Fa 1263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1263. Student folk studies project titled “Songs of Hazel Daniel,” which includes song titles of traditional folk ballads from the Hazel Daniel Folksong Collection. Descriptions may include title of the ballad, where published, ballad number, and page number. This is a continuation of the student project FA 1262 done by Peggy Louise Bradley.
Bradley, Peggy Louise (Fa 1262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bradley, Peggy Louise (Fa 1262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1262. Student folk studies project titled “Annotated Folksongs,” which includes song titles of traditional folk ballads from the Hazel Daniel Folksong Collection. Descriptions may include title of the ballad, where published, ballad number, and page number.
Purcell, Janice (Fa 1261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Purcell, Janice (Fa 1261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1261. Student folk studies project titled “Three Traditional Singers: Texts and Analysis,” which includes lyrics and descriptions of traditional folk ballads recorded in Green County, Kentucky and West Huntington, West Virginia. Descriptions may include name of the ballad, location learned, history, variants, traditional aspects, and informant’s name, age and location.
Thompson, Elois (Fa 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thompson, Elois (Fa 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1258. Student paper titled “Uncle Henry and the Kentucky Mountaineers” in which Elois Thompson details the life and career of “farmer, soldier, boxer, dairy-farm employee, comedian, aircraft factory employee, and hillbilly musician” Henry Green Warren. Thompson describes Warren’s childhood in Green County, his beginnings as a host on a popular radio program, and his time as a musician in several country music bands. Collection contains a draft of the original paper with the editor’s notes and the final copy of Thompson’s paper.
Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1386. Interviews conducted by WKU students with musicians in southcentral and western Kentucky, a folklore fieldwork class contribution to the Kentucky Folklife Program’s Southcentral Kentucky Musical Legacy Project.
Ua1c4/4 Band Photos, Wku Archives
Ua1c4/4 Band Photos, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Images of WKU marching band, orchestra, symphonies, etc.
Ua1c11/87 Howard Carpenter Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/87 Howard Carpenter Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs collected by Howard Carpenter.
Ua1c11/88 Jamie Daly Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/88 Jamie Daly Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs taken of and by Jamie Carlyle Daly during her time with the Gemini Jazz Band.
Ua99/5 Bowling Green Business University Departments, Wku Archives
Ua99/5 Bowling Green Business University Departments, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about the departments of Bowling Green Business University.
Ua37/39 Faculty Personal Papers David Livingston, Wku Archives
Ua37/39 Faculty Personal Papers David Livingston, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Papers of David Livingston related to Gemini jazz bands.