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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Tinker, Robert Rush (Fa 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tinker, Robert Rush (Fa 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1149. Student folk studies project titled “Playground Language: [Newburg, Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of playground rhymes in Newburg, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include rope skipping rhyme, group game, informant’s name, and text classification.
Archbold, Annie And Barbara Dubczak (Fa 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Archbold, Annie And Barbara Dubczak (Fa 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 379. A reel-to-reel audiotape recording of a program titled “Documents in Sound: A Sample in Folk Arts,” which was sponsored by the Barren River Regional Arts Council with funds from the Kentucky Folklife Foundation. According to the tape summary, the program includes five separate features, which can be played as individual vignettes or as a full 29-minute program. Features include traditional artists and cover topics such as woodworking, broom making, basket making, weaving, and drawn work.
Cederquist, Nancy (Fa 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cederquist, Nancy (Fa 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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FFinding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 378. Multiple interviews with Mrs. James Hall conducted by Nancy Cederquist on 22 February 1985, 1 April 1985, and 22 April 1985. Hall, a resident of Bowling Green, discusses her passion for quilting, her preferred patterns, fabric care, and her experiences with a local quilting group.
Conaster, Victoria (Fa 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Conaster, Victoria (Fa 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 377. Interview with Joe H. Page conducted by Victoria Conaster on 3 April 1993. Page, a resident of Lewisburg, discusses his childhood memories of growing up on a tenant farm. Topics covered include tobacco harvests and sales, pest control, traditional farm lore, home remedies and religious life.
Allen, David (Fa 368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen, David (Fa 368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 368. Interview with Annie Duvall conducted by David Allen on 16 April 1998. Duvall discusses her personal experiences growing up in Muhlenberg County. Topics covered include dating, marriage, gardening, family vacations, religion, women’s rights, and changes in modern technologies.
Pickering, Tammie & Gary Collins (Fa 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pickering, Tammie & Gary Collins (Fa 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 348. Student paper titled “Trees in Folk Crafts” in which Tammie Pickering and Gary Collins explore the connection between trees and traditional folkways. Paper details the medicinal properties of sassafras tea, which is made from tree roots, the production of maple syrup, and the expressive crafts of wood-carving and carpentry. Data collected from three working-class residents of Caldwell County. Paper also includes field journals, recorded interviews, and transcripts.
Collins, Gary & Tammy Pickering (Fa 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Collins, Gary & Tammy Pickering (Fa 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 346. Paper titled "Hog Killing in Western Kentucky" in which Gary Collins and Tammie Pickering discuss the cultural significance of farm-raising hogs and the foodways traditions that result from the slaughtering process. Using slides and interviews, Collins and Pickering document a hog killing that took place in January 1986 on a farm in Trigg County, Kentucky.
Hensley, Jennifer Lynn (Fa 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hensley, Jennifer Lynn (Fa 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 351. Paper titled "The Music Barn" in which Lynn Hensley discusses the founding of The Music Barn, a local music venue in Warren County, Kentucky. Hensley's main informant is Joe Marshall, a country music artist, community organizer, and owner of The Music Barn.
Fox, Randy (Fa 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fox, Randy (Fa 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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FFinding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 350. Paper titled "Fiddle About: Ed Carnes-Contest Fiddler" in which Randy Fox charts the history of fiddle playing and the rise of "contest fiddling" during the traditional music revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fox's main informant is Ed Carnes, an old-time fiddler who won the Kentucky State Fiddle Championship in 1981. Carnes details his beginnings as a fiddler, the recording of his fiddle-tunes album, and his travels across the country to different fiddling contests.
Powell, Joseph, B. 1949 (Fa 1020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Powell, Joseph, B. 1949 (Fa 1020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1020. Folk studies student project titled: “Christmas Customs in My Family,” which includes descriptions and survey sheets of Christmas practices in Grayson County, Kentucky. Survey sheets include brief descriptions of customs, stories, and beliefs, informant’s name, and motif index number.
Lyle, Beth (Fa 1004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lyle, Beth (Fa 1004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1004. Paper written by Beth Lyle titled “Class Night: A Lasting Tradition at Allen County-Scottsville High School.” Class night was an annual event held in May in which members of the senior class were formally presented to the community, similar to a debutante or coming out ball.
Harbison, Kay (Fa 874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harbison, Kay (Fa 874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 874. Paper titled: “Uncle Bozo Carver: World’s Oldest Living Country Musician and Entertainer.” Project details the life of Noble “Uncle Bozo” Carver as an entertainer. Project includes lengthy interview, lists of songs, and some stanzas.
Kentucky Folklife Festivals - Files (Fa 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Festivals - Files (Fa 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 746. This collection contains documentation of various folklife related festivals held within the state of Kentucky that were documented by folklorist Bob Gates. the ones documented in this collection include the Discovery Festival in Mt. Vernon, the International Festival in Bowling Green, the River Folk Arts Festival in Louisville, “A Day in the Country” Festival, the Horse Cave Heritage Festival in Horse Cave, the Ganesha Festival in Louisville, and the Watermelon Festival in Tompkinsville. There are also slides in Folder 6 that document the Michigan Folklife Festival.
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection FA 747. This collection contains materials relating to a wide array of folklife subjects collected by folklorist Bob Gates for the Kentucky Folklife Program. The majority of the subjects include ethnic or cultural groups, but there is also various information relating to specific arts or traditions. The materials within the folders are mostly articles or copies of articles. Most folders contain information that relates directly to Kentucky, but some are about the topic more in general terms. Files are arranged by subject.
Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 752. Clippings of "Ravelings" column from "Harland (Kentucky) Daily Enterprise" and "Corbin (Kentucky) Daily Tribune" with collected mountain superstitions, customs, and folkways.
Pinto, Chelsea (Fa 591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pinto, Chelsea (Fa 591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 591. Paper, titled “Paul McCartney Wanted Dead or Alive”, written by Chelsea Pinto for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Pinto details the urban legend surrounding the alleged death of Paul McCartney of the English rock band The Beatles, and his subsequent replacement by a “look-alike”. Pinto bases her conclusions largely on a small number of interviews conducted with Beatles fans.
Spraggins, Cody (Fa 585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spraggins, Cody (Fa 585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 585. Video by Cody Spraggins titled “The Community of Dungeons and Dragons Players as a Folk Group.” The video is a compilation of interviews with three individuals who participate in the role playing fantasy game. The focus of the video is the sentiment that the “gamers” have created distinct folk groups within their community of play. Typescript of abstract only. The project was submitted for the 2011 Folklife Archives Award competition at Western Kentucky University.
Hopkin, Rachel Claire (Fa 586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hopkin, Rachel Claire (Fa 586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid and full text paper (Click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 586. Independent study project conducted by Rachel Hopkin on George R. Gibson, a banjo player from eastern Kentucky. The project, contained on two DVDs, includes photos, audio interviews and transcripts, a paper, bibliography, and field notes. Participating in the interview are Gibson and musicians John W. Haywood and Kevin C. Howard, who describe Gibson’s influence on them. This project was executed for the folk studies program at Western Kentucky University.
Dalton, Callie Lou, B. 1965 (Fa 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dalton, Callie Lou, B. 1965 (Fa 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 576. "The Handmade Paper Doll: A Study in Tradition," a paper written by Callie Lou Dalton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 157. This collection includes cassette tapes of interviews with eight women used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “A Tie That Binds: Contemporary Funeral Foodways In A Rural, Central Kentucky Community.” Two copies of the paper are also included in the collection.
Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 161. This collection contains a master’s thesis entitled “Hillbilly Music and Early Live Radio Programming In Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon,” written by James Nelson in January 1994 for the department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Western Kentucky University. Also included is a cassette tape of old-time music from south central Kentucky entitled “Railroad Through the Smoky Mountains,” by Jim Bowles, as well as an obituary for Jonell F. Simunick.
Jackson, Michelle Margie (Fa 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Michelle Margie (Fa 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 159. This collection contains a paper entitled “Moonshining,” written by Michelle Jackson as a part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in the spring of 1994. Also included is a cassette tape of an interview with Jerry Rhoton, sheriff of Clay County, Tennessee, as well as his informant data sheet and four photos of him.
Barefoot, Jeffrey Allen (Fa 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barefoot, Jeffrey Allen (Fa 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 78. “The Middle Bridge Ghost” interpretive paper and videotaped interviews executed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Gipson, Kenneth Todd (Fa 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gipson, Kenneth Todd (Fa 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 80. “Occupational Folklore of Monument Makers.” Interviews with Carroll Monument Company employees regarding their occupation and related stories. Includes one summary and one transcript.
Poynter, Shawn (Fa 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Poynter, Shawn (Fa 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 184. Paper titled “The Usage and Importance of the Rule of Thirds in Newspaper Photography” written by Shawn Poynter for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. The collection looks at the usage of the “rule of thirds” as it appears in the Park City Daily News. The “rule of thirds” refers to a photograph guideline that requires subjects to be in either one of the sides, top or bottom third of the frame. The collection contains analysis, graphs, tables and newspaper …
Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 85. [Barbecue in Bowling Green.] Typescript and interview notes from interviews with three barbecue cooks in Bowling Green Kentucky. Collection was written for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Brittain, Lanny Ray (Fa 88), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brittain, Lanny Ray (Fa 88), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 88. [The Folk Art of Quilting.] Collection contains typescripts, photographs and an interview with Ida Lee Crase concerning her quilting. In addition to the photographs, cassette tape and typescripts, the collection also contains an example of Mrs. Crase’s hand stitched quilt piece. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Anthony, Christian Renee (Fa 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Anthony, Christian Renee (Fa 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, full-text scan of paper, and interview (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 87. [Sexton House] Collection contains typescripts, photographs and an interview concerning the folklore surrounding the Sexton House in Russellville Kentucky. Collection was created for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 86. [Ghosts: Fact or Fiction?] Typescripts and cassette tapes that document ghost stories with a specific focus on ghost stories of Western Kentucky University. Collection contains four cassettes of interviews, tape indexes, informant/fieldworker data forms and news clippings. Collection was created for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Helm, Carrie (Fa 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Carrie (Fa 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 66. “Woodburn: A Memory Just Beneath the Surface”, an interpretive paper and interviews executed by Carrie Helm for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in 1989.