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Folksong : racines et branches de la musique folk aux États-Unis / Jacques Vassal.
Book/Text
Paris : A. Michel, c1977.
1977
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJND 81-35 | Item locationOffsite |
Deac Martin's book of musical Americana, by Deac (C. T.) Martin.
Book/Text
Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall [1970]
1970
2 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 784-M (Martin, C. Deac Martin's book of musical Americana) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJNF 71-8 | Item locationOffsite |
The voice of the folk; folklore and American literary theory.
Book/Text
[Amherst] University of Massachusetts Press [1972]
1972
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberHAER 72-2641 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Only a miner; studies in recorded coal-mining songs.
Book/Text
Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1972]
1972
2 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJNF 73-58 | Item locationOffsite |
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*L 74-141 | Item locationOffsite |
Folksong; une histoire de la musique populaire aux États-Unis.
Book/Text
Paris, A. Michel [1971]
1971
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJND 72-75 | Item locationOffsite |
Living documents in American history.
Book/Text
New York, Washington Square Press [1964-68]
1964-1968
2 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberIAG (Scott, J. A. Living documents in American history) v. 1 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberIAG 73-251 v. 2 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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The ballad of America: the history of the United States in song and story.
Book/Text
New York, Grosset & Dunlap [1967]
1967
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberIAG 73-515 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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The American folk scene; dimensions of the folksong revival. Edited and with an introd. by David A. De Turk and A. Poulin, Jr.
Book/Text
[New York, Dell Pub. Co., 1967]
1967
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJNC 74-8 | Item locationOffsite |
Folk songs and ballads of the eastern seaboard; from a collector's notebook [by] Frank M. Warner.
Book/Text
Macon, Ga., Southern Press [c1963]
1963
1 item
Available online
| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJNF 76-117 | Item locationOffsite |
Electric children : roots and branches of modern folkrock / Jacques Vassal ; translated and adapted by Paul Barnett. 1st ed.
Book/Text
New York : Taplinger Pub. Co., 1976.
1976
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJNE 76-33 | Item locationOffsite |
What, woman, and who, myself, I am: an anthology of songs and poetry of women's experience / edited by Rosalie Sorrels; illustrated by Liz Schoeberlein; music copy and decoration by Jean Rudokas.- 1st ed.
Book/Text
Sonoma, Calif.: Wooden Shoe, c1974.
1974
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJND 76-7 | Item locationOffsite |
The Yellow covered songbook. -
Notated music
Voorheesville, N. Y. : ThePick'n' and Sing'n' Gather'n', [1975?]
1975
2 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatNotated music | Call numberJNM 78-3 v. 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
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| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatNotated music | Call numberJNM 78-3 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
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A bibliography of North American folklore and folksong / by Charles Haywood.
Book/Text
New York: Greenberg, 1951.
1951
3 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 016.398-H (Haywood, C. Bibliography of North American folklore) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*R-RMRR ML128.F75 .H3 1951 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S. (Haywood, C. Bibliography of North American folklore and folksong) | Item locationOffsite |
Long steel rail : the railroad in American folksong / Norm Cohen ; music edited by David Cohen.
Book/Text
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1981.
1981
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJNF 81-116 | Item locationOffsite |
50 popular folk songs : piano, vocal, with guitar frames.
Notated music
[New York] : Shattinger-International Music Corp. ; [San Francisco : distributed by Pacific Coast Music, 1978?]
1978
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatNotated music | Call numberJNF 79-132 | Item locationOffsite |
Amerika fōku songu no sekai / Minagawa Sōichi.
Book/Text
Tokyo: Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1973.
1973
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*OSM 81-414 | Item locationOffsite |
What, woman, and who, myself, I am : an anthology of songs and poetry of women's experience / edited by Rosalie Sorrels ; illustrated by Liz Schoeberlein ; music copy and decoration by Jean Rudokas.
Notated music
Sonoma, Calif. : Wooden Shoe, c1974.
1974
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatNotated music | Call numberJND 81-64 | Item locationOffsite |
Les travailleurs de la frontière : étude socio-historique des chansons de bûcherons, de cowboys et de cheminots américains au 19e siècle / Michel Oriano.
Book/Text
Paris : Payot, 1980.
1980
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJND 82-45 | Item locationOffsite |
Check-list of recorded songs in the English language in the Archive of American folk song to July, 1940. Alphabetical list with geographical index.
Book/Text
Washington, D.C., 1942.
1942
4 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 789-U (United States. Library of Congress. Music Division. Archive of American Folk Song. Check-list of recorded songs) v. 3 (Geographical index) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 789-U (United States. Library of Congress. Music Division. Archive of American Folk Song. Check-list of recorded songs) v. 2 (L-Z) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 789-U (United States. Library of Congress. Music Division. Archive of American Folk Song. Check-list of recorded songs) v. 1 (A-K) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Folklore-songs of the United States / words and music collected by Dorothea Dix Lawrence ; words and music arranged by Walter L. Rosemont.
Notated music
Plainfield, N.J. : Dorothea Dix Lawrence Folklore Society ; New York, N.Y. : G.F. Briegel [distributor], c1959.
1959
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatNotated music | Call numberJNG 87-156 | Item locationOffsite |
Multicultural music education [microform] : an analysis of Afro-American and native American folk songs in selected elementary music textbooks of the periods 1928-1955 and 1965-1975 / by Marvelene Clarisa Moore.
Microform
1977.
1977
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatMicroform | Call numberSc Micro R-4586 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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American folk suite : for woodwind quintet / [arranged by] Kazimierz Machala.
Notated music
Delaware Water Gap, PA : Concert Works, c1989.
1989
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatNotated music | Call numberMusic-Am. (Sheet) 91-4 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music.
The telling takes me home [sound recording]
Musical recording
Sharon, Conn : Folk-Legacy Records, 1972.
1972
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatMusical recording | Call number*LZR 3706 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound.
Tone the bell easy. Edited by J. Frank Dobie.
Book/Text
Austin, Tex., Texas Folk-lore Society, 1932.
1932
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 398-D (Dobie, J. Tone the bell easy) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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I hear America singing; an anthology of folk poetry, collected by Ruth A. Barnes; illustrated by Robert Lawson; with an introduction by Carl Van Doren.
Book/Text
Chicago, Philadelphia [etc.] The John C. Winston Company [c1937]
1937
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 811.04-B (Barnes, R. I hear America singing) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Songs of America; a cavalcade of popular songs, edited with commentaries by David Ewen; arrangements by Mischa and Wesley Portnoff.
Book/Text
Chicago, ill., Ziff-Davis Publishing Company [c1947]
1947
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 784.4-E (Ewen, D. Songs of America) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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White and Negro spirituals, their life span and kinship, tracing 200 years of untrammeled song making and singing among our country folk, with 116 songs as sung by both races, by George Pullen Jackson.
Book/Text
New York, J. J. Augustin [1944]
1944
2 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 784.4-J (Jackson, G. White and Negro spirituals) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S.) (Jackson, G. P. White and Negro spirituals) | Item locationOffsite |
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White spirituals in the southern uplands : the story of the fasola folk, their songs, singings, and "buckwheat notes" / by George Pullen Jackson.
Book/Text
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1933.
1933
3 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 784.4-J (Jackson, G. White spirituals in the southern uplands) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S.) (Jackson, G. P. White spirituals in the southern uplands) | Item locationOffsite |
| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S.) (Jackson, G. P. White spirituals in the southern uplands) | Item locationOffsite |
Folk blues; 110 American folk blues. Compiled, edited, and arr. for voice, piano, and guitar by Jerry Silverman. Photographs by Julius Lester.
Book/Text
[New York] Oak Publication[s, 1968]
1968-1958
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 784.7-S (Silverman, J. Folk blues. Oak Publications, ed. 1968) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Encore [sound recording] : Leon Bibb in concert.
Musical recording
Los Angeles, Calif. : Liberty, [196-?]
1960-1969
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatMusical recording | Call numberSc Audio RE-5214 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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Folklore keeps the past alive / Arthur Palmer Hudson.
Book/Text
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1962.
1962
2 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 784.4-H (Hudson, A. Folklore keeps the past alive) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S.) (Hudson, A. P. Folklore keeps the past alive) | Item locationOffsite |
Sing out!
Book/Text
New York City, N.Y. : Peoples Artists
1950-present
4 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc Ser.-M .S496 v. 25-27, inc.(1976-1979) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc Ser.-M .S496 v. 24, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1976) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc Ser.-M .S496 v. 18, no. 3 (Aug./Sept. 1968) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Interview with Oscar Brand, 1978.
Spoken word recording
1978.
1978-508
0 resources
Black workers and their responses to work through the songs they sang / by Herbert N. Richardson.
Book/Text
1987.
1989-1987
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc D 96-319 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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For the friends of Alec Wilder [sound recording].
Music CD
Providence, RI : Newport Classic, p1994.
1994-1993
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatMusic CD | Call number*LDC 11539 (F) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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Songs and ballads of the anthracite miner; a seam of folk-lore which once ran through life in the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania, gathered and edited by George G. Korson.
Book/Text
New York, F. H. Hitchcock [c1927]
1927
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNBH (Korson, G. G. Songs and ballads) | Item locationOffsite |
Historical & legendary ballads & songs / by Walter Thornbury.
Book/Text
Boston : W. F. Gill & Co., 1876.
1876
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNCK (Thornbury, G. W. Historical and legendary ballads and songs. 1876) | Item locationOffsite |
Worried man blues [sound recording] : their complete Victor recordings 1930 / the Carter Family.
Music CD
Cambridge, MA : Rounder, p1995.
1995
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatMusic CD | Call number*LDC 13162 (F) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas. Volume 2, the United States / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Hiroaki Ohta ; co-producer, Stephen McArthur, Multicultural Media ; executive producers, Katsumori Ichikawa and Yuji Ichihashi.
VHS
[Tokyo?] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan ; Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, c1995.
1995
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatMoving image | Call number*MGZIA 4-2481 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance.
Some problems with musical public-domain materials under United States copyright law as illustrated mainly by the recent folk-song revival / by O. Wayne Coon.
Book/Text
Los Angeles : John Edwards Memorial Foundation, 1973.
1971-1973
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*L 75-707 v. 27 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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The American people : stories, legends, tales, traditions, and songs / B.A. Botkin ; with a new introduction by Louis Filler.
Book/Text
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1998.
1998-1946
1 item
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|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFE 99-7307 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Casgliad o ganeuon gwerin, Cymru ac America; a collection of American and Welsh folk-songs for field days, picnics, and banquets, et.
Book/Text
Utica, N.Y., 1928.
1928
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberNBF p.v. 109 7 titles | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The singin' fiddler of Lost Hope hollow, by Jean Thomas.
Book/Text
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., inc., 1938.
1938
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MEC (Setters) (Thomas, J. B. Singin' fiddler of Lost Hope hollow) | Item locationOffsite |
Baxter's complete folk guitar accompaniment manual : [a step-by-step approach to help you sound professional, while accompanying yourself or others, read music and progress with your playing.
Book/Text
New York : Amsco Music, c1968].
1968
2 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MKPGM (Baxter's complete guitar accompaniment manual) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MKPGM (Baxter's complete guitar accompaniment manual) | Item locationOffsite |
Provisional check-list of disks (excluding primitive music) in the Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress / prepared by the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, Resettlement Administration, Special Skills Division, and Works Progress Administration, Historical Records Survey.
Book/Text
Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1937.
1937
1 item
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|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*L 95-11 | Item locationOffsite |
Hear America singing. Illustrated by Carolyn Cather. Introd. by Harry Belafonte.
Book/Text
New York, Lion Press [c1967]
1967
1 item
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|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S.) (Attaway, W. Hear America singing) | Item locationOffsite |
American folk music, compiled by Annabel Morris Buchanan. Native folk music found in America, including Anglo-American (English, Scotch, Irish) Indian, Negro, Creole, Canadian, Mexican and Spanish-American, and a small amount from German, Norwegian, Hungarian and Portuguese sources. Sacred and secular forms presented in songs, tunes, bibliography, collections, choral and instrumental settings, American compositions based on native traditional material with old-world forms for comparison. For National Federation of Music Clubs.
Book/Text
Ithaca, N.Y., National Federation Publications and Business Office (Music Clubs magazine) c1939.
1939
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB+ (U.S.) (Buchanan, A. M. American folk music) | Item locationOffsite |
Folk music USA, by Howard Grafman and B.T. Manning. Robert Amft, art editor. With articles by Pete Seeger and Win Stracke.
Book/Text
New York, Citadel Press [1962]
1962
1 item
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|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S.) (Grafman, H. Folk music USA) | Item locationOffsite |
A bibliography of North American folklore and folksong.
Book/Text
New York, Dover Publications [1961]
1961
4 items
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberZ5984 .U5 H32 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music - Reference |
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| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*MFFB (U.S.) (Haywood, C. Bibliography of North American folklore) | Item locationOffsite |
| Format | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberZ5984 .U5 H32 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music - Reference |
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