For some, who are always looking for something else:
Folk Music–United States
Source: The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress
New Online, Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932
From the announcement, “The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress has created an online presentation of its 1978 record album ‘Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932,’ edited by Neil V. Rosenberg and Debora G. Kodish. This online presentation commemorates the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Archive of Folk Culture in 1928 and the appointment of its first head, Robert W. Gordon.” Audio from the album is streamed in the mp3 format.
My source for the above is: http://www.resourceshelf.com/
Direct link: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon/gordonhome.html
From the website:
Preface to the Online Presentation
by Michael Taft
As part of its celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Archive of Folk Culture, the American Folklife Center is re-issuing these recordings from the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection. Twenty-five years ago, for the Archive’s 50th anniversary, these recordings were issued on an LP, along with extensive notes by Debora Kodish, Neil V. Rosenberg, and Joseph C. Hickerson. That LP, and the turntables that could play it, are now nearly as obsolete and inaccessible as were wax cylinders in the 1970s, but the value of the recordings and Gordon’s legacy as the first director of the Archive have not lessened.
MarkB
