SOUTHERN FOLKLIFE GENERAL COLLECTION, #30000, var.d
This collection contains numerous artificially created collections of materials organized
by format and/or content. Materials relating to African-American culture are scattered
throughout the extensive holdings and range from commercially released sound recordings (LPs,
45s, 78s) to artist files, subject files, discographical research files, periodicals,
ephemera, books, sheet music, and photographs. Published sound recordings number over 40,000
and contain extensive documentation of black musical expression, religious life, and popular
culture. Genres captured in these recordings span nearly every known form of African-American
music ranging from delta blues to doo wop and from sanctified gospel to work songs. Access is
primarily by individual or group artist name, but staff can help locate material by subject
or genre as well. Includes tapes from a radio program series focusing on African-American
musical expression. The series was produced by the John Edwards Memorial Foundation and
broadcast at UCLA in 1968. The series was part of a larger series entitled "Old Time Record
Review," described as "a radio program of authentic American folk music as it was produced on
commercial records for the folk audience." Most selections were dubbed for the various
programs from 78-rpm disks recorded in the 1920s and 1930s. Individual programs include
"Introduction to Negro Music," "Early Country Blues," "12-String Guitar," "Texas and
Mississippi Country Blues," "Depression Blues," "Lonnie Johnson," "Queens of the Blues,"
"Piano Blues" (2 parts), "Big Bill Broonzy," "Memphis Minnie," and "Negro Religions." [12
reels, FT1598-FT1609]