Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection, 1901-1992
Span: 1901-1992
Bulk: 1936-1990
English
collection
13 ft.
29 boxes
Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) was a folksong and ethnic music collector and recordist, ethnographer, ethnomusicologist, teacher, writer, and wife of composer Henry Cowell. The collection consists of her personal papers, which document all aspects of her life and work. The collection includes correspondence relating to personal and professional matters; fieldwork reports, fieldnotes, songs lists and other materials from her field recording projects and trips; articles, essays, reviews, and papers written by Sidney Robertson Cowell; articles and narratives by and about Henry Cowell; autobiographical narratives and essays, clippings, family histories and other materials relating to her professional career and personal life; photographs; teaching materials; and song sheets and song books. In addition, the collection contains photocopies of a selection of Henry Cowell holographs, several annotated by Sidney Robertson Cowell, and a selection of folk songs with piano settings by Henry Cowell in his own hand.
Clippings, correspondence, diaries, drafts, ethnography, field notes, memorandums, photographs, proposals, songbooks, music.
In 1998, Music Division transferred to the Archive of Folk Culture in the American Folklife Center from the collection relating to Cowell's work with the California Folk Music Project. This material joined other Cowell papers in the Folklife Center.
Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Papers of the noted ethnographer and wife of composer Henry Cowell.
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Folk Music
Ethnomusicologists
Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Cowell, Henry
W. P. A. California Folk Music Project
ML31.C78
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
California Folk Music Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010010
IHAS
110202
loc.natlib.scdb.200033709