Accession Number: 5
John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection, 1915-1940
1.6 linear ft, 4 mss boxes
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview & Series Description
History
Series I - Ballad and Song Texts
Series II - Tune Transcription Notebooks
Series III - Fiddle and Banjo Tunes, Musical Events, Instruments, and Games

Related College Archives:

• Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection, SAA 18
• G.R. Combs Ballad Collection, SAA 105
• Talitha Ethel Powell McClure Ballad Collection, SAA 32
• James Watt Raine Ballad Collection, SAA 6
• John F. Smith Collection, RG 9

Related References

Stephen B. Green. “The Berea Tune Lists : An Archival Resource for the Study of Social Music in Eastern Kentucky and East Tennessee in 1915.”Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 57(1995):39-67.

Series Description and Box Lists
4 Manuscript Boxes

This series consists of lists of banjo and fiddle tunes, and instruments used in home communities. There are also lists of games played and descriptions of musical events such as house dances and singing schools.

Box 3, Cont.

7. Lists of banjo and fiddle tunes
8. Music events and lists of instruments
9. Games

Aaron, Elizabeth
Abston, Rev. M. V.
Allen, Ward

Back, Richard
Batiste, E.
Bennett, Maynard
Boling, H. F.
Bowman, Brack
Browning, Ortie
Burgett, Ruth

Carnes, Victor
Chase, Stella
Coyle, McKinley
Craft, Caudace

Dalton, Malvin
Daniel, Bessie
Davis, Alga
Davis, Zula
Dixon, Bradley
Draughon, Fitzhugh
Dunca[n?], Ms. John

Eadles, Elizabeth
Elliott, Lou V.
Eplee, Biddie
Evans, John F.

Farmer, Charles
Franklin, Violet

Gabbard, Chester A.
Gibbs, Ceci
Graham, Charles C.
Griffin, Bertha

Harges, Margie
Hawley, Anna
Henderson, [?]
Hibbard, Bessie
Hibbard, Victoria
Hill, Ernest B.
Horton, Anne Lee
Howard, Harvey
Howard, Virdie Rae

Issacs, Lena

Jaggers, M. M
Johnsons, The

Kindred, Retha

Lawson, Robert
Lockhart, [?]

Martin, Manda
May, Calla
McCall, Henry
McMahan, Ray M.
Mills, Ber
Moore, Flossie
Moore, Pearl
Mustard, Vera

Ogg, Lillian R.

Payne, Peter
Phelps, Monte
Powell, Talitha

Rains, James M.
Reams, Robert
Richardson, Nancy Margaret
Robbins, William S.

Scrivner, A.
Sewell, Virgie
Shackelford, Quillie
Smith, John F.
Smith, Harvey
Smithers, Frank
Snyth, Mr.
Spurlock, Vada
Swack, Minnie

Taylor, Myrtle
Teafer, Myrtle
Thompson, Edgar
Thompson, George S.
Thompson, Ruth
Tuttle, Ether

Wagers, Anna Mae
Wallace, Anna
Whitt, Lauda
Williams, Addie
Williams, Elsie F.
Wilson, Doxie

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