McCord, May K.,. Vance Randolph collection, 1941-1943, 1972 / collected by Vance Randolph.
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Vance Randolph collection, 1941-1943, 1972 / collected by Vance Randolph.
The Vance Randolph collection documents aspects of Ozark Mountains folklife and culture from 1941-1972. Randolph made field recordings of folksongs, speech, and photographs in the Ozarks from 1941-1943 for the Archive of American Folk Song, Library of Congress. Randolph donated his papers to the Archive in 1972 and the two accessions were combined. Recordings include instrumentals, unaccompanied and accompanied ballads, folk songs, popular songs, hymns, religious songs, fiddle tunes, and old-time music, performed on fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, piano, and harmonica. Randolph accumulated an extensive number of newspaper clippings and topical files on a wide variety of subjects relating to the Ozarks, including local legends, folk beliefs, local history, traditional music, childrens' games, folk medicine, spiritual healing, jokes, riddles, place names, medicine shows, local dialect, folk festivals, sporting activities, local outlaw Belle Starr, and other local characters. Vance Randolph's papers (1972 accession) comprise correspondence, fieldnotes, notes on family history, maps, articles, research notes, additional photographs, and other documents. Correspondents include Alan Lomax, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Henry Cowell, Louise Pound, Franz Boas, George Lyman Kittredge, Dorothy Scarborough, Thomas Hart Benton, Benjamin A. Botkin, Bertrand Bronson, Wayland D. Hand, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Richard Dorson, Herbert Halpert, Kenneth S. Goldstein, Gershon Legman, among others.
ArchivalResource:
manuscripts 261 folders.sound recordings 255 sound discs : analog ; various sizes, 16 in. and smaller.sound recordings 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in.graphic images 164 photographic prints.
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