New folk archive on Web

Subject: New folk archive on Web
From: GUEST,Fretless
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 09:43 AM

Max Hunter Folk Song Collection [RealPlayer, AIFF] http://www.smsu.edu/folksong/maxhunter/

Edited by Michael F. Murray, Assistant Professor of Music at Southwest Missouri State University, this site offers numerous selections from the Max Hunter Collection, an archive of almost 1,600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. Hunter was a travelling salesman from Springfield, Missouri who took his reel-to-reel tape recorder with him into the rural Ozarks, recording the songs and stories of people he met. The collection may be keyword searched or browsed by song title, singer, or catalog number. Featured songs list the singer, location, and date and include a transcription of the verses, in some cases a musical score, and links to an audio recording in RealPlayer, high-quality AIFF, and for some selections, MIDI formats.

Subject: RE: New folk archive on Web
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 10:13 AM

Wonderful! I'm consoling myself from my work by dipping in....

Kris

Subject: RE: New folk archive on Web
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 10:43 AM

Outstanding. Thank you.

Subject: RE: New folk archive on Web
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 11:25 AM

Well, not all that new, though it is certainly very interesting.  For more information, see also these previous discussions:

Max Hunter~ Bittersweet~ and much more!
Arkansas Field Recordings on web
Database, Ozark Songs

There is a link at the  Mudcat Links Page

Malcolm