Densmore Collection
Span: [18--]-[195-]
English
collection
20 boxes
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.
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.
Densmore Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Densmore, Frances
Papers of an American ethnomusicologist.
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Folk Music
Densmore, Frances
Miller, Dayton C.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
IHAS
090604
loc.natlib.scdb.200033795