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Ua94/6/18 Stephen Flora Student / Alumni Papers, Wku Archives Jan 2024

Ua94/6/18 Stephen Flora Student / Alumni Papers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Stephen Flora during his years as a student at Western Kentucky University.


Hines, James Arvin, 1926-2017 (Mss 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2022

Hines, James Arvin, 1926-2017 (Mss 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 746. Articles, stories, songs, and two unpublished novels by Ohio County, Kentucky native and prolific freelance writer James Hines.


Edmonds, John Buell, 1945-2020 (Mss 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2022

Edmonds, John Buell, 1945-2020 (Mss 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 742. Manuscript of Called, Justified, Glorified, and Gay: The Fictional Memoirs of Gospel Singer, Josephus Hezekiah Carson, by John Edmonds, a memoir based on the Bowling Green, Kentucky native’s life as a gay, African-American gospel singer. Includes a proposal for marketing the book, and several handwritten notes and lyrics. This material contains graphic sexual content.


Williams, Michael Ann (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Williams, Michael Ann (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and interview transcriptions for Folklife Archives Project 459. Interviews related to Sarah Gertrude Knott and the National Folk Festival conducted by Michael Ann Williams and Hillary Glatt as part of a joint project for the Kentucky Oral History Commission and Western Kentucky University. The audio interviews did not come with this collection. Interview transcriptions may be accessed by clicking on the "Download" button to the right and then clicking on the hyperlinks in the finding aid.


Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Collector (Mss 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2020

Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Collector (Mss 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 685. Research material collected by Ray B. Buckberry, Jr. related to Ernest Hogan, an African American musician from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who is sometimes credited as one of the pioneers of ragtime music. He composed and wrote lyrics for numerous musical pieces for minstrel shows and published sheet music.


Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 (Mss 690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2020

Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 (Mss 690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 690. Research material collected by Nancy Richey and Carlton Jackson about thumbpicking guitarist Mose Rager for their book Mose Rager: Kentucky’s Incomparable Guitar Master. Includes interviews, news clippings, and correspondence by and about Rager as well as other thumbpicking guitarists, such as Merle Travis, Arnold Shultz, and Eddie Pennington.


Hazelrigg, Anita Lynn (Gropp), 1886-1977 (Sc 3498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2020

Hazelrigg, Anita Lynn (Gropp), 1886-1977 (Sc 3498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3498. Letter, 24 April 1938 from Anita L. (Mrs. H. E.) Hazelrigg, Owensboro, Kentucky to James E. “Eddie” Barlow, Georgetown, Kentucky. The piano teacher refers to Barlow’s piano studies and reports on the success of one of her students and on her own daughter Joy’s performance at a recital and on a radio program. She also makes a brief reference to job losses at a local plant. Includes a clipping about Joy’s recital in Evansville, Indiana.


Gemini 13 Memories, Eddie Key Dec 2019

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 Oct 2019

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.


Wilgus, Donald Knight, 1918-1989 (Sc 3401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

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.


Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 - Relating To (Sc 3360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

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.


Ua37/39 Faculty Personal Papers David Livingston, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua37/39 Faculty Personal Papers David Livingston, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Papers of David Livingston related to Gemini jazz bands.


Evolution Of The Cello In Music, Joshua Propst Jun 2017

Evolution Of The Cello In Music, Joshua Propst

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

With this project, I have studied cello music written throughout many of the major musical eras in an attempt to discover the cello, specifically regarding playing style, technique, and tonal ability. The composers included in this project are Bach, Haydn, Dvořák, Pärt, and Amanti. Most of the major musical styles are represented, with a focus on baroque, classical, romantic, minimalism, and jazz. I performed this wide variety of pieces at my Senior Recital for the Western Kentucky University (WKU) Music Dept. The goal of the recital was to showcase the rich musical history of the cello and how cello composition …


Carpenter, Howard R., 1919-2016 (Mss 613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2017

Carpenter, Howard R., 1919-2016 (Mss 613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 613. Manuscript orchestral music for several pieces composed by Howard R. Carpenter, a music professor at Western Kentucky University from 1953 to 1984.


Lane, Thomas Sylvester, 1858-1942 (Sc 3083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2017

Lane, Thomas Sylvester, 1858-1942 (Sc 3083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3083. Memo book containing information about singing schools[?] established in Edmonson and Warren counties in Kentucky.


Bowling Green Community Concert Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2016

Bowling Green Community Concert Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3019. Letter to members listing 1970-1971 events for the Bowling Green Community Concert Association,Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes flyers relating to two of the concerts and press information for one of the performers. The Association disbanded at the conclusion of the season.


Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, Larry Snyder, Jr. Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Andrew Mcmichael, Editor, Assistant Dean, Potter College Of Arts, Western Kentucky University Apr 2016

Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, Larry Snyder, Jr. Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Andrew Mcmichael, Editor, Assistant Dean, Potter College Of Arts, Western Kentucky University

PCAL Publications

No abstract provided.


Gemini 15 Memories, Karen Mahaffey Mar 2016

Gemini 15 Memories, Karen Mahaffey

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Answers given by Karen Mahaffey to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire in spring of 2016. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 75 Memories, Jeff Jones Mar 2016

Gemini 75 Memories, Jeff Jones

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Jeff Jones' answers to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Cron Feb 2016

Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Cron

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Answers given by Nancy (Hill) Cron to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire in spring of 2016. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Pollard Jan 2016

Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Pollard

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Nancy (Baker) Pollard's answers to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 14 Memories, Karen Matchus Jan 2016

Gemini 14 Memories, Karen Matchus

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Karen (Warren) Matchus' answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 15 Memories, Merry Herbert Jan 2016

Gemini 15 Memories, Merry Herbert

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Merry Herbert's answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 15 Memories, Pam Thurman Jan 2016

Gemini 15 Memories, Pam Thurman

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Pam (Livingston) Thurman's answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 75 Memories, Bobbi Clark Dec 2015

Gemini 75 Memories, Bobbi Clark

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Bobbi (Battle) Clark's answers to questionnaire regarding WKU's Gemini jazz bands. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, Larry Snyder, Interim Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor Oct 2015

Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, Larry Snyder, Interim Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor

PCAL Publications

No abstract provided.


Shakers (Sc 2938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2015

Shakers (Sc 2938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2938. Compilation of manuscript and printed Shaker hymns, and instructions for dances to accompany hymns. Some of the hymns were transcribed by Roger Hall.


Capitol Arts Center - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2015

Capitol Arts Center - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scans of some folders (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection MSS 538. Administrative papers, correspondence, financial records, fundraising material, minutes and membership lists for the Capitol Arts Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes information about performing and visual arts programming at the Center.


Music Education (Sc 2901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2015

Music Education (Sc 2901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2901. Advertising contracts and rate sheet for the Bluegrass Music News, a publication of the Kentucky Music Educators Association; choral program and constitution and by-laws of the Third District Music Educators Association.


Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, David Lee, Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Potter College Of Arts Potter College Apr 2015

Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, David Lee, Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Potter College Of Arts Potter College

PCAL Publications

No abstract provided.