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Densmore Collection [collection]
- Title
- Densmore Collection [collection]
- Date Created
- Span: [18--]-[195-]
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 20 boxes
- Abstract
- Frances Densmore (1867-1957) was one of the first ethnomusicologists to study the music of Native Americans. Trained in traditional Western art music under teachers such as Leopold Godowsky and John Knowles Paine, she turned instead to ethnology, working through the early part of the last century under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. Among items in this collection are lecture notes, some photographs and correspondence, a box of lantern slides, and analyses of field recordings.
- Contents Note
- Lecture programs, articles, nine annotated scrapbooks, drafts for lectures and reviews, biographical chronology of Frances Densmore compiled from diaries, photographs and correspondence, some glass lantern slides, and papers pertaining to Densmore’s analyses of field recordings made by Dayton C. Miller.
- Preferred Citation
- Densmore Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Access Permissions
- Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site.
- Copyright Information
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Subjects
- Folk Music
- Densmore, Frances
- Miller, Dayton C.
- Repository
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 06-04-2009