Robert Winslow Gordon and American folk music.

Format:

Book

Series:

Archives unbound.

Archives unbound

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gordon, Robert Winslow.

Folk music--United States.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (17,246 images)

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2015.

Summary:

Robert Winslow Gordon (1888-1961), a native of Maine, attended Harvard College and taught in the department of English at the University of California at Berkeley. His monthly column in Adventure Magazine, "Old Songs that Men Sing," attracted attention from readers across the United States, and he received thousands of letters containing songs and queries. In 1928 Gordon became the first archivist of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture) in the Library of Congress. He was a pioneer in using mechanical means to document folk musicians, and his cylinders and discs in the Library of Congress form part of his legacy. The collection of Gordon manuscripts contained here, primarily from 1922 to 1932, offers researchers online access to the daily workings of an important twenty-century American folklorist.

Notes:

Date range of documents: 1909-1932.

Reproduction of the originals from the Library of Congress.

Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 30, 2015).

Local Notes:

Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

OCLC:

910653576

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.