Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection 1911-1975.

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Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection 1911-1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50879552

This collection consists of handwritten and typewritten texts, published texts, and music notations dating mainly from the period 1900-1950. It includes ballads, shape-note and other hymns, rhymes, spirituals, shanties, labor, and commercial country music songs. Also included are related magazine articles, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, and correspondence between Berea College staff and music researchers.

0.4 linear ft. (1 mss box)

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7633396

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Berea College. Hutchins Library. Special Collections,

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Mabel Martin Wyrick is a writer and community historian from Corbin, Kentucky, writing on Whitley, Knox, and Laurel Counties. Her newspaper columns, which were variously titled, "Factual Folklore" and "Mabel's Fables", appeared in the London (Ky) Sentinel-Echo and Corbin (Ky) Times-Tribune. She also published a book entitled "If Quilts Could Talk, I'd Listen" (1988). From the description of Mabel Martin Wyrick Local History Collection 1854-1893. (Berea College). WorldCat record id: 5...