Folk music -- United States

Scope and Contents Contains excerpts from ‘Folklore in the Army Airborne, The 101st Airborne Division’ by M.B. Abbott and retrieved from the Folklore Archive at Western Kentucky University, March 13 1984. Contains ‘The Paratroopers’ Prayer’, the foreword and the introduction. The subject matter includes discussion of the archetypal paratrooper, paratrooper chants and general sociological analyses. The original date that the work was published is unspecified, however the subject matter suggests a publication...

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Chapter two of R. Serge Denisoff, ‘Great Day Coming: folk music and the American left’, (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1971), titled ‘The Rural Roots of Folk Consciousness’.

Scope and Contents Contains two photocopied editions of ‘“Sound Off!” Soldier Songs’; Edward Arthur Dolph, ‘Sound Off!” Soldier Songs from Yankee Doodle to Parley Voo’, (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929); Edward Arthur Dolph, ‘”Sound Off!” Soldier Songs From the Revolution to World War II’, (New York: Farrah and Reinhart Incorporated, 1942). The former only has its front matter, some selected pages, the bibliography and the index included. The latter is a full copy [only the front page is...

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Contains a copy of Major Joseph F. Tuso, Associate Professor of English, United States Air Force Academy Colorado (ed.), ‘Folksongs of the American Fighter Pilot in Southeast Asia, 1967-68’. Also contains some handwritten notes and a letter from LC to the Sales Department at the Texas A and M University Press, retrieving the piece of work. The letter is dated March 26, 1991.

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Contains material that is either written or edited by Bruce Jackson. Includes ‘What Happened to Jody?’, ‘Journal of American Folklore’, Vol. 80, No. 318, Oct-Dec 1967, and ‘Wake up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons’, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

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Contains multiple photocopies of Harold Rome (music and lyrics), ‘”Lunch time Follies” A Presentation of the American Theatre Wing’, (New York: Kaycee Music Co., Inc., 1943). Also includes an analysis by LC of an article titled “Lunchtime Follies, S.R.O.” by Arlene Wolf, taken from ‘New York Times Magazine’, 11 July, 1943.

Scope and Contents Contains the dissertation of Saul F. Brody, ‘GI Folklore in Vietnam’, June 24 1969, the first draft of Broudy’s ‘AFS paper’ (1986) and some handwritten notes. The central topic of the collection is the ritualistic behaviour of Vietnam war soldiers including folk music, customs, speech, jokes and slang. The dissertation also includes song lyrics and appendices. In the AFS paper, Broudy establishes that his analyses of Vietnam soldier culture can from his one-year tour of duty in Vietnam from...

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Contains a series of unsourced and undated song lyrics, retrieved from the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Centre, Library of Congress. The songs included were given to the unknown collector between January and August, 1944.

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Contains photocopied excerpts from William Walrich, ‘Air Force Airs: Songs and Ballads of the United States Air Force, World War One through Korea’, (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1957). Also includes a review of ‘Air Force Airs’ featured in the Journal of American Folklore by Warren E. Roberts, and the photoduplication application for John Hay Library where LC retrieved ‘Air Force Airs’. The application was filed on April 27, 1977.

Scope and Contents A collection of song lyrics, sheet music, poems and parodies retrieved from the Folklore Institute at Western Kentucky University. The material has been resourced through various informants across the U.S. who participated in WWII, the Korean War or the Vietnam War. Often included with the songs is some background information which demonstrates its folkloric relevance. The songs are often humorous and obscene. The date that LC acquired the material is unspecified, but the date range of the...