We haven't had many new contributions here lately, but here's a good one:

Thread #84168   Message #1552415
Posted By: Dave Ruch
29-Aug-05 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: Wisconsin Folksong Collection online!!
Subject: Wisconsin Folksong Collection online!!


Apologies if this has already been posted or discussed here - I couldn't find any reference to it in prior threads.

There's a great new website with field recordings from two different Wisconsin folksong collectors. The real voices of the "informants", plus notes and even printable sheet music for each song!

The Collection contains Wisconsin field recordings, notes, and photographs made by UW-Madison faculty member Helene Stratman-Thomas as part of the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin and the Library of Congress during the summers of 1940, 1941, and 1946; and recordings collected by song catcher Sidney Robertson Cowell during the summer of 1937 for the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration.

The database is very search-friendly as well, so if you are looking for specific topics, songs, etc, they are very easy to find. What a great job they have done here.

I've spent way too much time at the website already today....

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WiscFolkSong

Thanks, Dave!
-Joe Offer-

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Here's an online resource that shouldn't be missed: A Traditional Music Library.

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-Joe Offer 1 Mar 2006-