Music Recording (Collection)Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States recording expedition
Main title
- Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States recording expedition [sound recording].
Published/Created
- 1939.
Links
Links
- Search for audio titles in the Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000128
- Online presentation, Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000008
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Description
- 419 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm ; 12 in. + documentation.
- manuscripts 3 boxes.
Rights advisory
- Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Local shelving no.
- LWO 4872 reels 176A-210A
- AFS 2735-3153
- AFC 1939/005
Variant title
- Southern recording expedition
Related names
Performer
- Various performers.
Biography/History note
- Herbert Halpert was born in New York City, August 23, 1911. He studied folklore and anthropology for his M.A. from Columbia University. During the New Deal he recorded extensive collections of folk music, songs, and tales in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and across the South for the Federal Theatre Project, the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Projects Administration (WPA), and the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1942. He founded the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA), and taught at the University for many years. Halpert died December 29, 2000.
Summary
- Collection of field recordings comprising four hundred and nineteen 12-inch discs of instrumentals, monologs, prayers, sermons, songs, ballads, children's songs, miners' songs, cowboy songs, street cries, and stories recorded in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, by Herbert Halpert, March 15-June 23, 1939, for the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the WPA and the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song. The collection includes 3 boxes of articles, contact sheets, correspondence, descriptions, interviews, lists, photographs, reports, song texts, and manuscript music transcriptions for most of the songs recorded on this expedition. Included is the bound copy of the "Tentative record check list, Southern Recording Expedition sponsored by Joint Committee on Folk Arts WPA and the Library of Congress" by Herbert Halpert (Oct. 1939) 131 p. Also included is correspondence between Halpert; Charles Seeger; Shannon Allen, Radio Section, U.S. Dept. of the Interior; and Harold Spivacke and Benjamin A. Botkin of the Library of Congress (1939-1940).
LC Subjects
- Halpert, Herbert, 1911-2000--Ethnomusicological collections.
- Halpert, Herbert. 1911-2000--Correspondence.
- Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979--Correspondence.
- Allen, Shannon--Correspondence.
- Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975--Correspondence.
- Spivacke, Harold, 1904-1977--Correspondence.
- Folk music--Southern States.
- Folk songs, English--Southern States--Texts.
- Fiddle tunes--Southern States.
- Ballads, English--Southern States.
- Ballads, English--Southern States--Texts.
- Tales--Southern States.
- Children's songs--Southern States.
- Cowboys--Songs and music.
- Field recordings--Southern States.
- Music--Manuscripts.
Notes
- Mississippi folk music, Microfilm 97/1112 (M), of Halpert's field notes includes a list of the records made on the recording tour by Halpert and a list of folk music manuscripts and material collected by the Music Project. Microfilm is available in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress.
Indexes
- Bibliographic information for titles in this collection is found in the online resource link: Search for audio titles in the Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition.
Acquisition source
- Accessioned, 1939.
Cite as
- Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition (AFC 1939/005), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Additional formats
- Online access to twelve of these recordings, AFS 03135-03146, is available through the Library of Congress American Memory presentation, "Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942," compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress, which also includes additional recordings not made during these field trips.
LCCN
- 2008700314
Geographic area code
- n-usu--
Repository
- DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
Type of material
- Music Recording (Collection)
Item Availability
CALL NUMBER
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- American Folklife Center (Jefferson, LJG53)
