The American Folklife Center has released a new finding aid, "Oregon Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture."
Compiled by scholar Megan M. Dreger, the finding aid describes the Archive of Folk Culture's unpublished ethnographic collections documenting traditional music and other aspects of folk culture in Oregon.
Items described by the finding aid include:
- A set of 159 12-inch disks of instrumentals and songs recorded throughout the American South and Midwest for the Resettlement Administration, including four pieces recorded by the "Balkan Troubadors," a Minnesota traditional singing group, in 1937.
- Twenty 16-inch disks of Native American music recorded throughout the American West in 1947, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- Eight tapes of interviews (with 137 pages of transcriptions) concerning Jewish festivals and religious customs, family histories, personal narratives and songs in Ladino and Yiddish, recorded in Oregon in 1981 for the Jewish Festivals Project.
The guide, as well as a catalog of the Library's published recordings of folk music and folklore, is available from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-4610, telephone (202) 707-5510, fax (202) 707-2076.
This finding aid and others in the LC Folk Archive Finding Aid series are also available on the Internet at //www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/.
