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Total number of records: 70
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) | 2 |
| English Folk Dance and Song Society | 2 |
| Green, Anthony E (1943-) | 2 |
| Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) | 2 |
| Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933) | 1 |
| Bartlett, Sir Frederic C (1887-1969) | 1 |
| Berger, Marshall D | 1 |
| Buck, Charles William (1851-1932) | 1 |
| Daniel, Tom | 1 |
| Davey, Gwenda | 1 |
M: Folk Music, Dance and Drama
1936-1982
This series contains items relating to aspects of traditional performance, including music, dance and drama. The items include studies of folk performance, as well as song texts and tunes, and transcr...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
Vocal Music
1958-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of traditional vocal music, including ballad and folk song. The subject matter includes informants' song collections, institutional collections of fol...
Some Acoustic Differences Among Languages
Hanley, T D; Snidecor, J C; Ringel, R L
1966
This file contains a copy of a joint paper which discusses an experiment to examine tonal differences between spoken Spanish, Japanese and American English, based on field recordings made of students ...
Instrumental Music
[1936-1977]
This subseries contains items on traditional instrumental music. The subject matter includes organ pipes, types of bands, piping in Northern England and Irish music.
Games and Pastimes
1969-1976
This file comprises four photographic prints of historic European playing cards, accompanied by a photocopy of a typed key to the plates; a photocopy of Frank Weatherill's typed and ms. notes on the g...
Oral Tradition
1954-1982
This subseries contains items relating to oral traditions amongst children, and includes items on children's songs and rhymes; Peter Millington's collection of Nottinghamshire rhymes; papers by Gwenda...
Accent, Pattern, and Dialect in North American English
Berger, Marshall D
1968
This file contains a copy of Marshall Berger's paper on the importance of meaning of the term accent in linguistics, with reference to André Martinet's functional approach to linguistic analysis. The...
Parish and Church
[1965-1975]
This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...
Miscellaneous Folklore Papers
1964-1979
Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...
Papers on Fieldwork
[ca. 1969]
Photocopies of Donald A. MacDonald, 'Fieldwork: Collecting Oral Literature' (pp. 408-430); Warren E. Roberts, 'Fieldwork: Recording Material Culture' (pp. 431-444); George List, 'Fieldwork: Recording ...
Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.
[1961-1982]
This file contains various leaflets, printed volumes and other items relating to places of historical/folk interest, and folk-related collections. This includes a general leaflet for Bunratty Folk Par...