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Gardner and Chickering - Recordings?

23 Feb 22 - 04:48 PM (#4137616)
Subject: Tune Req: Gardner and Chickering - Recordings?
From: GUEST,Derek Piotr

Dear All,

I was recently made aware of the Gardner and Chickering book on folk songs; I wondered if any of these textual entries had field-recorded audio counterparts.
The book was published in 1939, so I think it seems feasible that there may have been audio of the ballads in the collection taken on dictaphone...
I wonder how I might find out; correspondence with U of Michigan yielded nothing.


23 Feb 22 - 08:45 PM (#4137630)
Subject: RE: Gardner and Chickering - Recordings?
From: Joe Offer

I see that Ballads and Songs Southern Michigan is back in print. The original Gardner and Chickering book was published in 1939, and I have a Folklore Associates reprint published in 1959. The current edition was published by the University of Michigan Press.

I don't see anything in the book about the location of the recordings, but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

-Joe-