Folk music -- West Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas S. Brown Folk Music Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4612
Scope and Contents
Attending folk festivals in the early 1970s, when there was a revival of interest in folk culture, Thomas S. Brown became acquainted with "serious students of folk art as well as the folk artists themselves". His interest piqued and, encouraged by the Dean of Libraries at West Virginia University, Brown set out to make field recordings of traditional music in West Virginia to add to the folk music archives of the West Virginia and Regional History Center. In all, the Brown...
Dates:
1970-1982 and undated
Wayne Howard, Collector, Folk Music Recordings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4692
Scope and Contents
20 seven-inch reels of vocal and instrumental music, with some oral history. Performed by Burl, Lee, and Sherman Hammons, Maggie Hammons Parker, Dwight Diller, and others. Recordings were made in Stillwell and Marlinton, West Virginia. These recordings have been digitized, and a contents list is available upon request.Addendum of 2001: 3 inch, 7.5 ips reel-to-reel tape of Edwin Hammons performing "Waynesboro" and "Washington's March," originally recorded in the 1940s. This tape...
Dates:
1971-1980
West Virginia Folklife Program Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4224
Scope and Contents
Digital photographs, video recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, folk music recordings and more collected as part of the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council. These recordings and files were generated by folklore fieldwork and programs conducted by the West Virginia Folklife Program state folklorist and other West Virginia Humanities Council staff, interns, and contracted professional folklorists and photographers.This field...
Dates:
1965-2021 and undated; Publication: 2016-2021 and undated
Wilson Douglas and Other Folk Musicians, Assorted Tape Recordings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4727
Scope and Contents
40 audiocassette recordings of West Virginia folk music. Most include music by Wilson Douglas, but the following artists are also mentioned: John Morris, Franklin George, Carl Baron, Arnie Naman, Mike Burns, Harry Riley, Jim Costa, John Johnson, Scott Nelson, Liz Nelson, Jackie Horvath, JP Fraley, Grader Morris, Glen Smith, and Judy Hyman.
Dates:
1974-1990 and undated