The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83764 Message #1542142
Posted By: Dave Ruch
15-Aug-05 - 09:14 AM
Thread Name: Camp Woodland tape
Subject: RE: Camp Woodland tape
Not sure about the 1987 sampler tape, however, the songs on the tape were surely taken from the original recordings made by Cazden, Studer & Haufrecht for Camp Woodland, which seem to be housed in several locations, including:
Indiana University Archive of Traditional Music (which also has some recordings made by Herb Halpert in 1939 & 1941 in some of the same areas of the Catskills, pre-Camp Woodland!). http://www.indiana.edu/~libarchm
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/findaid-topical.html (see New York collections)
M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives University at Albany, SUNY, LE-355 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 518-437-3934 http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/
The tapes at Albany (from the Norman Studer archive) are in such fragile condition that it has been recommended they only play them one more time, in the transfer to digital. Unfortunately, funding for such a project seems to be at least a few years away.