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United States, Middle Atlantic States, 1938
- Author/Composer,etc
- Halpert, Herbert, 1911-2000
- Title
- [United States, Middle Atlantic States, 1938] [sound recording] / collected by Herbert Halpert.
- Format
- Musical Recording
- Physical description
- 128 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 12 in. + documentation.
- URL
- https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/s55m31306f
- Performer
- Various singers and children performing.
- Recording info
- Recorded July-Aug. 1938 by Halpert at various locations in the Pine Barrens region of New Jersey, northeastern Pennsylvania, and New York.
- Notes
- Folk songs. Aluminum (124) and acetate (4) discs. Accompanied by biographical and program notes, and selected song texts.
- Local note
- Song titles too numerous to list; traced separately. 12-4902--5029; 16-645--654 (copies); EC 10" 1435 (copies of acetates)
- Summary
- A large collection of Anglo-American songs including ballads, Child ballads, children's game songs, play-party songs, bawdy songs, sea shanties, sailor's songs, local songs, historical songs, Civil and Revolutionary war songs, raftman's songs, lumbering and hauling songs, railroad songs, wainwright's songs, and white spirituals.
- Terms of use
- Archival use and reproduction for non-profit educational or research purposes; Archives of Traditional Music.
- Subject
- British Americans--Middle Atlantic States--Music. Spirituals (Songs) Ballads, English--Middle Atlantic States. Historical songs and ballads--Middle Atlantic States. Child ballads--Middle Atlantic States. Folk songs, English--Middle Atlantic States. Singing games--Middle Atlantic States. Sea songs--Middle Atlantic States. Play-party--Middle Atlantic States--Music. Children's songs--Middle Atlantic States. Bawdy songs--Middle Atlantic States. Work songs--Middle Atlantic States. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Songs and music.
- Local subject
- NM01.
- Related name
- Indiana University, Bloomington. Archives of Traditional Music.