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Ua1b Wku University Wide Committees/Events, Wku Archives Dec 2010

Ua1b Wku University Wide Committees/Events, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding university wide events such as lecture and concert series. See individual departments for smaller co-sponsored events.


Buddy Defranco, The Standard Bearer, John M. Cipolla Dec 2010

Buddy Defranco, The Standard Bearer, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

Interview with Buddy DeFranco, master jazz clarinetist.


Human Things: Rethinking Guitars And Ethnography, Matthew L. Hale Dec 2010

Human Things: Rethinking Guitars And Ethnography, Matthew L. Hale

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This work is about objects and their makers, their relationship, and the negotiation between tradition and innovation in the creation of things. I explore the relationship between tradition, innovation, and technology as it pertains to the creation, perception, and interaction with acoustic steel string guitars and ethnographies. First, I focus on the works of two Nashville based guitar makers, Grant and Cory Batson. I investigate the ways in which the Batsons critically evaluate traditional construction techniques and design features as they create their instruments, looking at their theories of tone production, methods of construction, and their perceptions and uses of …


Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.


Lair, John, 1894-1985 (Sc 2380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Lair, John, 1894-1985 (Sc 2380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2380. Letter, 16 January 1954, from John Lair, Renfro Valley, Kentucky, to S. M. Gowder in Powder Springs, Georgia, regarding the inability to fulfill his request for the 13 December 1953 broadcast of the Renfro Valley Sunday Morning Gathering radio program.


Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Vol. 2, No. 1, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters Oct 2010

Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Vol. 2, No. 1, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters regarding faculty and student research, events and programs.


Green, Alice (Dunham), 1882-1977 (Sc 2346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Green, Alice (Dunham), 1882-1977 (Sc 2346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2346. Alice Dunham Green's transcription and arrangement of the Kentucky folk ballad "Weevily Wheat"; letter, 26 February 1953, from Harry L. Jackson, Cleveland, Ohio, to Mary T. Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing the song's connection to his family.


Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1. Project titled "White Gospel Music in Logan County" conducted by Donald Andre Beisswenger for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes interviews with Jeff and Gwen McKinney and Chester Whitescarver about singing schools and white gospel music. Transcript of McKinney interview included as well as a tape summary for the Whitescarver interview.


White, Arthur Carlton, Jr. (Sc 2314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

White, Arthur Carlton, Jr. (Sc 2314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2314. Paper: "Professor Franz Joseph Strahm" written by Arthur Carlton White, Jr. for an "American Music" class at Western Kentucky University.


Ua68/9/1 Western Minstrel, Wku Department Of Music Jul 2010

Ua68/9/1 Western Minstrel, Wku Department Of Music

WKU Administration Documents

The Western Minstrel is the official alumni newsletter of the WKU Department of Music.


Burns, Christie (Fa 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Burns, Christie (Fa 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 524. Collection consists of material accumulated by Christie Burns for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Includes personal narratives, a reading of Thanksgiving editorials from the "Wall Street Journal," and video clips from a performance at the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club's 2004 gathering at Launde Abbey in Leicester, England. Also includes photographs of material culture specimens.


Pace, Tracy (Fa 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Pace, Tracy (Fa 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 522. This collection consists of material collected by Tracy Pace for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The collection includes audio and video recordings of jokes, songs, a ghost story, a baby shower, a birthday party, and a personal narrative. Also included is material from the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival in Evansville, Indiana.


Slaney, Brett (Fa 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Slaney, Brett (Fa 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 523. This collection consists of material collected by Brett Slaney for a Western Kentucky Univeristy folk studies class. The collection includes a recording, tape index, photograph, and field notes from a bluegrass performance at the Rosine Barn Jamboree in Rosine, Kentucky. Also included are field notes and photographs from the 2004 Southern Folklilfe Festival at the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee and photographs of examples of material culture.


Stoner, Joel, B. 1950 (Fa 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Stoner, Joel, B. 1950 (Fa 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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.


Hutcherson, Anna (Fa 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Hutcherson, Anna (Fa 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 502. Paper: "Folklore in Rapping" written by Anna Hutcherson for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes pictures from "Right On" and "Word Up" magazines.


Moody, Thomas Newton, 1938-2024 (Mss 287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Moody, Thomas Newton, 1938-2024 (Mss 287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Chiefly letters from Moody, a Franklin, Kentucky native, written to his parents while attending college at Southwestern at Memphis and the University of Kentucky, and while teaching afterward in Elizabethtown. Also includes letters of the family of Moody’s grandmother, Drucilla Jane (Harris) Short.


Crabtree, Julie Anne, B. 1988 (Fa 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Crabtree, Julie Anne, B. 1988 (Fa 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 483. Folklore material classified by genre. Information collected by Julie Anne Crabtree related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Folk Cultural Photograph Exhibit, 1970-1971 (Fa 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Folk Cultural Photograph Exhibit, 1970-1971 (Fa 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 477. Photographs taken by Paul Schuhmann, Paul Hightower, and William Green for an exhibit titled "Folk Cultural Photography Exhibit" held in the College of Education building at Western Kentucky University and the product of a folk studies class taught by Lynwood Montell.


Ua68/9/2 The Symphony, Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra Jan 2010

Ua68/9/2 The Symphony, Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra

WKU Administration Documents

Program outlining the 2010-11 season of the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra. Includes article by Jonathan Jeffrey entitled "Homecoming" regarding the return to the renovated Van Meter Hall. Also a description of the Pre-College Strings Program.


Ua100/2/2 Training School & College High Departments, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua100/2/2 Training School & College High Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Training School / College High departments which inlude Athletics, Classes, English, Library, Music and Theatre.


Ua94/6/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Hilltoppers Quartet, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua94/6/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Hilltoppers Quartet, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Hilltoppers quartet. The collection includes phonograph records, copies of scrapbooks, promotional materials and sheet music.


Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2095. Promotional material, tour information and cue sheets related to bands playing in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area.


Music (Sc 1969), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Music (Sc 1969), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1969. Two pieces of manuscript music: a benediction featuring the words of Psalms 19:14 and a piece featuring the text of the Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:9-13.


Puglia, David (Fa 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Puglia, David (Fa 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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.


Worley, William Robert, 1853-1946 (Sc 1958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Worley, William Robert, 1853-1946 (Sc 1958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1958. Memoirs of Worley's early life in North Carolina and Arkansas, his family history, and his hand-written collection of song lyrics, some composed by Worley. His drawings accompany some of the reminiscences.


Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla Jul 2009

Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

Tips on the necessary skills for musicians to learn to play convincing phrases.


Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla Jul 2009

Article: Phrasing...Speaking In Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, Official Journal Of The Ky Music Educators Association, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

Tips on the necessary skills for musicians to learn to play convincing phrases.


Ua68/9/1 Western Minstrel, Wku Department Of Music Jul 2009

Ua68/9/1 Western Minstrel, Wku Department Of Music

WKU Administration Documents

The Western Minstrel is the official alumni newsletter of the WKU Department of Music.


Turner, Gregory A. (Fa 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2009

Turner, Gregory A. (Fa 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 448. Paper: "Gene Townsend" written by Gregory A. Turner for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Article: Pedagogy Of Master Clarinet And Saxophone Teacher, Joe Allard: A Panel Discussion, John M. Cipolla Jun 2009

Article: Pedagogy Of Master Clarinet And Saxophone Teacher, Joe Allard: A Panel Discussion, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

This is an edited transcription of a panel discussion held at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri about the pedagogy of clarinet/saxophone master teacher, Joe Allard. I participated in the panel, along with another former student of Joe Allard, as well as with an author of a dissertation written about Allard.