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James Madison Carpenter (interview)

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This interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This collection consists of sound recordings, manuscripts, and graphic materials documenting English, Scottish, and American folk music, dance, children's games, and British folk drama and festivals. Content includes approximately 1,000 ballad texts and 850 tunes of the Francis J. Child canon; 500 sea songs; 1,000 other ballads and songs from Great Britain and the United States, particularly from North Carolina and Mississippi; 200 children's singing games, riddles, and nursery rhymes; 300 English and Scottish folk plays; miscellaneous folktales, Cornish carols, and African-American spirituals; with over 500 related photographic images and 40 drawings collected by James Madison Carpenter from 1928 to 1955. Additions to the collection, including an interview with Carpenter in 1972, lecture notes,
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Jabbour, Alan
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Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Collection is open for research; access copies are available in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress. Please contact the Folklife Reading Room at folklife@loc.gov; 202-707-5510.;
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Utah State University - Merrill-Cazier Library

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Mountain West Digital Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Antiquities
  3. Ballads, English
  4. Ballads, Scots
  5. Baths, Roman
  6. Carols
  7. Carpenter, James M
  8. Castles
  9. Children's Songs, English
  10. Christmas Music
  11. Christmas Plays
  12. Cornwall (County)
  13. Cornwall (England : County)
  14. Correspondence
  15. Country Life
  16. Dialect
  17. Drawings
  18. England
  19. English Language
  20. Ethnomusicological Collections
  21. Festivals
  22. Fiddle Tunes
  23. Fiddlers
  24. Field Recordings
  25. Folk Dancing
  26. Folk Dancing, English
  27. Folk Drama, English
  28. Folk Drama, Scottish
  29. Folk Festivals
  30. Folk Music
  31. Folk Songs
  32. Folk Songs, English
  33. Folk Songs, Scots
  34. Folk Songs, Scottish Gaelic
  35. Great Britain
  36. History And Criticism
  37. Holidays
  38. Interviews
  39. May Day
  40. Megalithic Monuments
  41. Mississippi
  42. Morris Dance
  43. Mumming
  44. Mumming Plays
  45. Music
  46. Nursery Rhymes
  47. Photographs
  48. Scotland
  49. Sea Songs
  50. Singing Games
  51. Social Life And Customs
  52. Spirituals (Songs)
  53. Sword Dance
  54. Texts
  55. United States
  56. Written Works

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