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2004695192 abstract "The James Madison Carpenter collection consists of sound recordings, manuscripts, and graphic materials documenting English, Scottish, and American folk music, dance, children's games, and British folk drama and festivals. Content includes approximately 1,000 ballad texts and 850 tunes of the Francis J. Child canon; 500 sea songs; 1,000 other ballads and songs from Great Britain and the United States, particularly from North Carolina and Mississippi; 200 children's singing games, riddles, and nursery rhymes; 300 English and Scottish folk plays; miscellaneous folktales, Cornish carols, and African-American spirituals; with over 500 related photographic images and 40 drawings collected by James Madison Carpenter from 1928 to 1955. Additions to the collection, including an interview with Carpenter in 1972, lecture notes, and papers of Carpenter's Duke University students, date to 1987. Included is Carpenter's correspondence with John A. Lomax and others. Dance content includes documentation of sword dance plays, fiddle tunes for Morris dance, and photographs of Morris dance (with broom dancing), sword dance, Helston furry dance, and dancing at May Day celebrations and at English Folk Dance Society festivals. Drawings by George Baker illustrate mummers' plays and characters. The collection includes a few items from Ireland and Wales.".
2004695192 accessRights "Collection is open for research; access copies are available in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress.".
2004695192 accessRights "Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.".
2004695192 accrualMethod "Purchase;".
2004695192 contributor B10101865.
2004695192 contributor B10101866.
2004695192 coverage "Cornwall (England : County) Antiquities Photographs.".
2004695192 coverage "Cornwall (England : County) Social life and customs.".
2004695192 coverage "England Social life and customs.".
2004695192 coverage "Great Britain Antiquities Photographs.".
2004695192 coverage "Scotland Social life and customs.".
2004695192 date "1928".
2004695192 description "Finding aid is available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.".
2004695192 description "James Madison Carpenter (1889-1984) was an American professor of English and a university lecturer. After obtaining his doctorate from Harvard in 1929, he spent the next six years as a Harvard Fellow, traveling throughout England and Scotland collecting folk songs, folk plays, and other folklore material. In 1938, he began teaching at Duke University and continued folk song research there until 1943. He served as Chair of the English Department at Greensboro College, North Carolina, where he taught for 10 years, and retired to his hometown of Booneville, Mississippi in 1964. Carpenter died on July 4, 1984.".
2004695192 description "James Madison Carpenter Collection (AFC 1972/001), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.".
2004695192 description "James Madison Carpenter; Purchase; 1972.".
2004695192 description "The James Madison Carpenter collection consists of sound recordings, manuscripts, and graphic materials documenting English, Scottish, and American folk music, dance, children's games, and British folk drama and festivals. Content includes approximately 1,000 ballad texts and 850 tunes of the Francis J. Child canon; 500 sea songs; 1,000 other ballads and songs from Great Britain and the United States, particularly from North Carolina and Mississippi; 200 children's singing games, riddles, and nursery rhymes; 300 English and Scottish folk plays; miscellaneous folktales, Cornish carols, and African-American spirituals; with over 500 related photographic images and 40 drawings collected by James Madison Carpenter from 1928 to 1955. Additions to the collection, including an interview with Carpenter in 1972, lecture notes, and papers of Carpenter's Duke University students, date to 1987. Included is Carpenter's correspondence with John A. Lomax and others. Dance content includes documentation of sword dance plays, fiddle tunes for Morris dance, and photographs of Morris dance (with broom dancing), sword dance, Helston furry dance, and dancing at May Day celebrations and at English Folk Dance Society festivals. Drawings by George Baker illustrate mummers' plays and characters. The collection includes a few items from Ireland and Wales.".
2004695192 extent "10 reels.".
2004695192 extent "175 sound cylinders.".
2004695192 extent "19,417 items.".
2004695192 extent "221 sound discs :".
2004695192 extent "28.5 linear ft.".
2004695192 extent "40 drawings :".
2004695192 extent "563 photographs :".
2004695192 identifier eadafc.af010002.
2004695192 issued "1928".
2004695192 language "Sound recordings in English, Scots, Scottish Gaelic and in Cornish dialect.".
2004695192 language "eng eng gla sco".
2004695192 language "eng".
2004695192 rights "Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.".
2004695192 spatial "Cornwall (County)".
2004695192 spatial "Cornwall (England : County) Antiquities Photographs.".
2004695192 spatial "Cornwall (England : County) Social life and customs.".
2004695192 spatial "England Cornwall (County)".
2004695192 spatial "England Social life and customs.".
2004695192 spatial "England".
2004695192 spatial "England.".
2004695192 spatial "Great Britain Antiquities Photographs.".
2004695192 spatial "Great Britain".
2004695192 spatial "Great Britain.".
2004695192 spatial "Mississippi.".
2004695192 spatial "Scotland Social life and customs.".
2004695192 spatial "Scotland".
2004695192 spatial "Scotland.".
2004695192 spatial "United States".
2004695192 spatial "United States.".
2004695192 subject "African Americans Music.".
2004695192 subject "Ballads, English England.".
2004695192 subject "Ballads, English Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Ballads, Scots Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Baths, Roman England Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Carols England Cornwall (County)".
2004695192 subject "Carpenter, James Madison, 1888-1983 Correspondence.".
2004695192 subject "Carpenter, James Madison, 1888-1983 Ethnomusicological collections.".
2004695192 subject "Carpenter, James Madison, 1888-1983 Interviews.".
2004695192 subject "Carpenter, James Madison, 1888-1983 Written works.".
2004695192 subject "Castles Scotland Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Children's songs, English England.".
2004695192 subject "Children's songs, English Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Children's songs, English United States.".
2004695192 subject "Christmas music Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "Christmas plays Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "Country life England Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Country life Scotland Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "English Folk Dance Society.".
2004695192 subject "English language Dialect Cornwall (County)".
2004695192 subject "Festivals Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "Fiddle tunes England.".
2004695192 subject "Fiddle tunes Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Fiddlers Great Britain Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Field recordings Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "Field recordings United States.".
2004695192 subject "Folk dancing Great Britain Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Folk dancing, English Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "Folk drama, English England.".
2004695192 subject "Folk drama, Scottish Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Folk festivals England Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Folk music Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "Folk music United States.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs Great Britain Texts.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, English England History and criticism.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, English England.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, English Scotland History and criticism.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, English Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, English United States Texts.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, English United States.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, Scots Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Folk songs, Scottish Gaelic Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Holidays Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "May Day England Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Megalithic monuments Great Britain Photographs.".
2004695192 subject "Morris dance England.".
2004695192 subject "Mumming England Drawings.".
2004695192 subject "Mumming Scotland.".
2004695192 subject "Mumming plays England Texts.".
2004695192 subject "Mumming plays Scotland Texts.".
2004695192 subject "Nursery rhymes Great Britain.".
2004695192 subject "Nursery rhymes United States.".
2004695192 subject "Sea songs England.".
2004695192 subject "Sea songs Scotland.".