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Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1387. Audio interviews conducted by WKU oral history students in spring 2022 for the South Central Kentucky Music Project, centering on musicians in Bowling Green and surrounding counties.
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.
Stoner, Joel, B. 1950 (Fa 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stoner, Joel, B. 1950 (Fa 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 492. Interviews, transcriptions, photographs, and miscellaneous data collected by Joel Stoner pertaining to the Bowling Green, Kentucky music scene in the 1970s.
Puglia, David (Fa 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Puglia, David (Fa 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 467. Paper: "Banjo Bill Green: A Writer, a Performer, a Musician" written by David Puglia for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 200. Transcriptions and cassette tapes (14) of interviews that Amber Ridington, Western Kentucky University student, had with Joe Marshall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and other individuals who were knowledgeable about the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a music and recreational venue in Bowling Green, Kentucky.