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Simmons, Mary Jean (Fa 1412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1412. “Shaker Music as a Genre of Folk Music,” a paper written by Jean Simmons for a WKU folk studies class.

Photograph Of Disassembled Mountain Dulcimer

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Black and white photograph of the pieces of a disassembled mountain dulcimer lain out on backdrop with the book, "Four & Twenty: Songs for the Mountain Dulcimer" propped in the background.

Photograph Of Dulcimer

Images

This is a black and white photograph of a dulcimer belonging to Lynn McSpadden.

Williams, Michael Ann - Collector (Mss 691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 691. Research material, including news clippings, promotional material, interviews, reports and miscellaneous printed items related to John Lair and the operations and performers at Renfro Valley, Kentucky. Collected by Michael Ann Williams for a book she wrote about Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott.

A Different Master Of War: The Influence Of The Folk Music Revival On The Antiwar Movement During The Vietnam Era, Isabelle Gillibrand

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

Although the folk revival diminished as the United States entered the height of the Vietnam War, it lived on through antiwar activists. Music historians note how folk music was one of the early sparks of antiwar sentiment during the Vietnam era. This research builds on the ideas of previous scholars by analyzing the evolution of folk music from the 1930s to 1960s, how the folk revival's young audience connected to the music, and the influence the folk revival later had during the rise of the Vietnam antiwar movement. The antiwar sentiment expressed in the folk revival carried into antiwar activism, …

Enduring Music: Migrant Appalachian Communities And The Shenandoah National Park, Madeline Marsh

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This paper is an archival study of the displaced children of families formerly living in the Shenandoah National Park which spans from Strasburg to Waynesboro, Virginia. The study looks at interviews, from the JMU Special Collections archives, of these children in the 1970-80s, nearly fifty years after their forced migration from the 197,438 acres that comprised the park. Change and pressure during the 1930s-40s combined with national policy began the nostalgic preservation and veneration of the culture of these people of the Blue Ridge Mountains; through the archives, a clear and diverse picture of the perspectives and lifestyles of people …

From Woody Guthrie To The Big Muddy: The Evolution Of Political Music In America From World War I To The Late 1960s, Alexander B. Kouwenhoven

Honors Theses

Throughout the course of American history, music has served as a vital cultural mode for the expression and articulation of the collective American experience. Perhaps the most iconic connection between music and politics in American history occurred during the 1960s in the era of the counterculture and the Vietnam War. During this period, rock ‘n’ roll musicians became the figureheads for the Anti-War campaign and represented the political objectives of the New Left. However, the iconic status of these political musicians did not arise in a vacuum. These musicians, and their political importance in America can trace its origins to …

Arkansas Folk Music Lesson Plan

Lesson plans

This lesson plan will introduce students to Arkansas folk music and three of its pioneers, Almeda Riddle, Jimmy Driftwood, and Patsy Montana. Through primary source analysis of recordings and sheet music students will identify characteristics of folk music, compare folk music to other styles of music, discuss the significance of the song, and consider the social and historical context of the lyrics.

This lesson plan was produced for 6^th grade, 7^th grade, 8^th grade, 9^th grade, 10^th grade, 11^th grade, and 12^th grade students, but may be altered by teachers to fit other …

Rosenbaum, Michael Owen, B. 1972 (Sc 853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 853. Narrative essay written by Michael Owen Rosenbaum, based on his father Mark Rosenbaum’s account of attendance at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York, 16 August 1969, written for a Western Kentucky University United States history class, November 1990.

Authors Correspondence (Mss 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 337. Correspondence between authors and researchers and staff of the Kentucky Library & Museum, primarily regarding historical and genealogical resources. Correspondents also write about their work and publications.

Chamberlain, William W. (Sc 1492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1492. "Folk Music in the Kentucky Barrens," a thesis (268 p.) prepared by Chamberlain at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Discusses folk music traditions and ballads common to south central Kentucky.

Mellie Dunham: A Remembrance Norway Maine Summer Festival, July 2003, David Sanderson

Maine History Documents

The story of Mellie Dunham continues to fascinate, even some seventy-five years after the events. The tale of the 72-year-old country fiddler invited to play for Henry Ford, made famous by the media, then hugely successful as a vaudeville performer, seems almost too perfect to be true. But it all happened, and it was Mellie’s own grace and lack of pretense, a genuineness that inspired the public’s affection for him, that was as much as anything else responsible for the events of 1925 and 1926.

This booklet was created to mark Mellie’s 150th birthday, July 29, 2003. We call it …

West Virginia Folk Music: A Descriptive Guide To Field Recordings In The West Virginia And Regional History Collection, John A. Cuthbert

Bibliographies and Research Guides

West Virginia University's contribution to the foundation of modern folk music scholarship is widely recognized. Due to the pioneering achievements of its faculty, the University became an important center of folksong scholarship in the 1920s and 30s. John Harrington Cox's Folk-Songs of the South' served as both precedent and pattern for the myriad of subsequent publications upon which folksong study is based.Various works by Josiah Combs, who taught at the University for but a few years, and Louis Watson Chappell, who remained throughout his career, are equally notable if less obviously influential. The University's subsequent contributions to the field, however, …

Lyrics To "Down In The Arkansas," Jimmy Driftwood, Leo Rainey

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Lyrics to Jimmy Driftwood's song, "Down in the Arkansas"

Folk Song, "The English Soldier And The Irish Lady", Leo Rainey

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Lyrics to the fok song, "The English Soldier and the Irish Lady."

Excerpt Of Lyrics From "Almeda Riddle's Book Of Ballads", Almeda Riddle

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Excerpt of lyrics from "Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads" to a song about the 1926 tornado that destroyed part of Heber Springs.

The Ursinus Weekly, March 9, 1964, Sharon E. Robbins, David J. Phillips, Carl F. Peek, John Bradley, Susan Bell, Carlton Dingman, Cheryl Siegal

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Junior Prom and Agency concert highlight coming weekend • Curtain Club chooses cast; Meridy Murphy will direct "Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker" • Kaffee Klatsch topic "politics" • Sig Nu and ZX win Songfest • Photo contest • Wedgwood, controversial historian, author, here Wednesday evening • Campus Chest plans underway • Red Cross seeking qualified swimmers • 1,100 applications filed at UC for Fall admissions • Jean Hunter, Howard Smith elected Ruby co-editors • March placement schedule posted • Ursinus to raise tuition rate $200 effective Sept. 1 • Review: Mr. Lincoln on civil rights • Navy OCS team will visit campus …

The Ursinus Weekly, March 2, 1964, Sharon E. Robbins, Carl F. Peek, Craig Garner

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Old Cape Cod Junior Prom theme • Agency concert set for Jr. Prom weekend: Lonnie Johnson, Gordon Bok • Genevieve Blatt will speak Wednesday: Secretary of Internal Affairs possible US Senate nominee; Miss Blatt is central figure in Pennsylvania Democratic controversy • Pi Nu sponsors Greek Song Fest • Junior class will elect men for top Ruby positions • UC represented at State Band; Campbell and Stayer travel to Wilkes • Frats pledge 45 men today • Yale professor arrested as spy speaks at Lincoln; Lincoln IRC invites Ursinus to lecture • Debate Team falls to Naval Academy • UC …

The Ursinus Weekly, March 13, 1961, Catherine A. Nicolai, William Mast, Richard F. Levine, John B. Piston, John Swinton, Gerald Morita

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

U.N. official speaks on Africa • Aviation team to visit; Group on campus Mar. 22 • Two frosh girls complete Spring Festival court • Committee set up to plan first Parents Day • State Department seeks people for jobs • "Mr. Barrie's etchings" chosen as Spring play • Listings for March job interviews are posted • Ursinus to host SPSEA convention on Sat., March 18 • WAA investigates insurance plan • Music fraternity invites three people to join • CAC to present second music night on March 18 • "Archaeology & the Bible" topic of Wed. Y program • Two …

Lyrics To "Me And My Cowboy Sweetheart," Patsy Montana, Patsy Montana

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Lyrics to Patsy Montana's song, "Me and My Cowboy Sweetheart."

Biography, "The Story Of Patsy Montana"

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Biography about Patsy Montana from a songbook

Sheet Music, "I'Ve Found My Cowboy Sweetheart" By Patsy Montana, Patsy Montana

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Sheet music with lyrics to Patsy Montana's song, "I've Found My Cowboy Sweetheart."

Folk Song, "When The Work's All Done This Fall", John Lomax, Alan Lomax

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Lyrics to "When All the Work's Done this Fall," a folk song collected by John and Alan Lomax.

Folk Song, "Jesse James", John Lomax, Alan Lomax

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Lyrics to "Jesse James," a folk song collected by John and Alan Lomax.

Folk Song, "The Cowboy's Dream", John Lomax, Alan Lomax

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Cowboy folk song collected by John and Alan Lomax.

"Heber Springs Is A Sad Scene Of Desolation," Arkansas Gazette, November 26, 1926

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Newspaper article from the Arkansas Gazette about a storm that struck Heber Springs in 1926.

The Arkansaw Bear: A Tale Of Fanciful Adventure Told In Song And Story Book Cover

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Horatio the bear does not know all the words to the folk-song "The Arkansas Traveler," so his friend Bo helps him finish it. What they don't know, they make up as they go.

Folk Song Lyrics, "Rome County" And "Brother Green", Almeda Riddle

Arkansas folk music supplemental materials

Lyrics to the folk songs "Rome County" and "Brother Green" as sung by Almeda Riddle from "Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads."