Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932
Span: 1922-1932
English
web presentation
The recordings on this site represent one man's ambitious attempt to document the extent and variety of American folksong. During the 1920s and the early 1930s, folklorist Robert Winslow Gordon took his cylinder recorder (and later, his disc machine) to the San Francisco waterfront, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Georgia coast in order to record the diverse singing traditions of the United States. He recorded nearly a thousand cylinders, collected nearly ten thousand more song texts from the readers of his popular articles, and gathered many thousand additional song versions from old camp-meeting and revival songbooks, broadsides, folios, and hillbilly recordings. This site documents almost 30 of these songs.
30 sound recordings
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Recordings of American folk songs collected by Robert Winslow Gordon in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Folk Music
African American Music
Gordon, Robert Winslow
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon/index.html
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Gordon.html
IHAS
110201
loc.natlib.scdb.200033605