Accession Number: 18
The Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection
.4 linear ft.
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview
Series Description
Series I - Handwritten/Typed Song Texts
Series II - Published Songbooks
Series III - Pamphlet and Booklet
Series IV - Magazine Articles
Series V - Newspaper Clippings
Series VI - Correspondence
Series VII - Bibliographies
Series VIII - Miscellany

Access and Use:

Preferred Citation: The Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.

College Related Archives:

• SAA 4 Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
• SAA 5 John F. Smith Ballad Collection
• SAA 6 James Watt Raine Ballad Collection
• SAA 13 Bradley Kincaid Papers
• RG 9, Box 1, Gladys V. Jameson

Series Description
1 Manuscript Box

This series comprises two folders of magazine articles dating from 1907 to 1972 on such topics as ballads and ballad collecting, rhymes, Bluegrass, and other types of music.

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14. Magazine articles 1904-1926
15. Magazine articles 1926-1972

This series includes clippings dating from 1911 to 1975, on such topics as ballads, fiddlers’ contests, shaped-note singing, and zithers.

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16. Newspaper clippings 1911-1975

This series includes correspondence between Berea College faculty and music researchers, arranged chronologically, 1911 to 1927.

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17. Correspondence 1911-1927

Several bibliographies of ballad and other folk music publications are included in this series.

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18. Bibliographies

Miscellaneous items included in this series are brief printed items relating to 1942 / 1954 Berea College Ballad performances, Edith Fitzpatrick James - “The Kentucky Songbird,” - James Watt Raine, and notes made by Elisabeth S. Peck.

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19. Concert Program - Evening of Appalachian Music Berea College, May 14-15, 1954
20. Concert Program - An Evening With Ballads Berea College, March 30, 1942
21. Peck Notes - Including negative comments about the place of balladry at Berea by Gladys Jameson and Irma Forman (who later married Bradley Kincaid).
22. Biographical re: Scottish ballad singer, Edith Fitzpatrick James

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