D.K. Wilgus Papers, 1883-1996

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D.K. Wilgus Papers, 1883-1996

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D.K. (Donald Knight) Wilgus was born on1 December 1918, in Mansfield, Ohio. He attended the Ohio State University, where hereceived a Bachelor of Arts in 1941, a Master of Arts in 1947, and a Doctorate ofPhilosophy in 1954. Wilgus spent most of his career teaching in the Center for the Study ofComparative Folklore and Mythology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).Throughout his career he helped pioneer the chronicling of popular musical forms,including Blues and music. In 1986, hemarried former student and long-time colleague Eleanor R. Long. D.K. Wilgus died on25 December 1989. Hillbilly The collection consists of the professionalcorrespondence of D.K. Wilgus with individuals and organizations; extensive writingsand publications by Wilgus and others on the subject of Anglo-American folk music,including photocopies and offprints of the many journal articles and book reviewsthat he and his colleagues produced for various folklore publications; materialsrelated to Wilgus's involvement in numerous folk music festivals, seminars, andother professional activities throughout the United States and Europe; files anddiscographies for individual folk-music artists and record labels; tapetranscriptions by the Irish Folklore Commission and related notes by Wilgus and TomMunnelly; research notes and published articles and books related to projects aboutthe sinking of the and outlaw Jesse James;sheet music and broadsides and student essays on songsters; Wilgus's personal cardcatalog with notes and discographical information about country and western music,songsters, blues, old-time music, Irish music, Laws, Rocky Mountain ballads; andmiscellaneous personal materials, including obituaries, resumes, military dischargerecords, and some personal correspondence. Materials relating to Wilgus's academiccareer, particularly his tenure at UCLA, including lecture notes and syllabi forcourses, are scattered throughout the collection, but are concentrated in Series2.1, 3.3, and 8. The Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus series includes materials related solelyto her research and teaching on Anglo-American and Irish ballads and folksongs, aswell as joint projects with D.K. Wilgus. The photograph series primarily containsimages of the UCLA Folk Festival and artist headshots. The audio series consists ofopen reel tapes recorded or collected by D. K. Wilgus. The tapes are primarily ofindividual songs and ballads and individual performers. There are also copies ofradio transcription discs of artists such as Lulu Belle and Scotty, Texas Jim Lewis,Bluegrass Roy, and Faron Young; field recordings made by Wilgus in Ireland,1969-1972, of ballad singers and instrumentalists; recordings of Anglo-Americanballad singer Sara Cleveland and early country musician and steel guitar playerJimmie Tarlton; materials relating to Naomi Wise; and interviews with country musicians Ernest Tubb and ErnestStoneman. Titanic

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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