Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle collection [sound recording], 1935-[ca. 1955], 1989.

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Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle collection [sound recording], 1935-[ca. 1955], 1989.

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Consists of acetate discs containing field recordings, supporting material including record jackets and copies, song lyrics and miscellaneous notes found with the discs, black and white photoprints and photonegatives, reel-to-reel audio tapes, and tape dubbing logs. The field recordings fall into two categories: African-American folk culture and Anglo-American folk culture. Included in the first category are spirituals, blues, ring shouts and game songs recorded in Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. The second category contains spirituals, traditional folk songs, sermons, bawdy songs, shanties, and political songs recorded in New York City, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and other unknown locales. Most of the field recordings were made by Barnicle and Cadle although some were made by folklorist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston and folklorist Alan Lomax. Also included in the collection are an audio tape of a 1989 interview with Tillman Cadle and photographs taken at Cadle's home near Townsend, Tenn.

4 sound tape reels.39 photoprints : b&w.

East Tennessee State University, TET

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SNAC Resource ID: 7382297

East Tennessee State University, TET

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Barnicle, Mary Elizabeth, 1891-1978

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Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, born April 17, 1891, was a folklorist who taught at New York University during the 1930s and 1940s. Tillman Cadle, born June 27, 1902, had been a coal miner and labor union organizer in Kentucky before meeting Barnicle in 1935. Both were interested in folk music and collecting ballads and made numerous field recordings throughout the South during the years from 1935 through the early 1950s. They married in 1936 and eventually moved to Rich Mountain Gap near Townsend, Ten...

Cadle, Tillman, 1902-1994

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