Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection (Library of Congress) [sound recording]. 1920-1953, bulk 1929-1939.

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Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection (Library of Congress) [sound recording]. 1920-1953, bulk 1929-1939.

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Composed of a wide range of spoken arts, documentary and some musical recordings including speeches and lectures given at Columbia University by faculty and visitors; interviews; political speeches featuring many world figures of the pre-World War II and New Deal eras; prose and poetry readings, many performed by twentieth-century American and English authors, including Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, and Edgar Lee Masters; an American and English language dialects series from Professor William Cabell Greet's project at Columbia University in which he recorded various regional dialects for the purpose of correcting students' speech; and selections of American Indian and African American folk music.

ca. 500 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm, 33 1/3 rpm ; 10 in., 12 in.

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Greet, William Cabell, 1901-1972

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Author, editor, lexicographer, professor of English at Columbia University since 1929 (Columbia University M.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1926). From the guide to the William Cabell Greet Papers, 1928-1971., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Author, editor, lexicographer, & professor of English at Columbia University since 1929 (Columbia University M.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1926). From the description of William Cabe...