Browse Collections (55 total)

Perry County, Kentucky native Jean Ritchie was the youngest of fourteen children in a family rich in oral tradition. She emerged from this background…

In 1946 Alan Lomax invited the prolific ballad singer Texas Gladden, of Saltville, Virginia, and her brother, multi-instrumentalist Hobart Smith, to…

This Collection consists of musical performances, preaching, storytelling, and oral history interviews that were collected by the Berea College…

This collection consists of photographs, print articles, clippings, discography, and reel-to-reel audio recordings documenting the career of old-time…

Fifty-six audio field recordings (1970s) of interviews and performances that document the repertoire and styles of several Kentucky fiddlers, banjo…

These are correspondence, writings, song texts, journals, diaries, transcripts, photographs, sound / video recordings, and other material relating to…

This Collection consists of recorded interviews and transcripts of interviews with former Berea College students and faculty who participated in the…

This collection is comprised of photographs and digital copies of nine reel-to-reel audio tape recordings of singers, fiddlers, banjo players, and…

This collection consists of fiddle and banjo tunes and songs sung by Bobby and Glenda Prather, recorded by Layne Hendrickson in Marshall County,…

One hundred seventy-four (174) audio field recordings (1970s-1990s) of interviews and performances that document the repertoire and playing styles of…

These are correspondence, publications, interviews, photographs, and sound recordings that document the career, repertoire, musical talents, religious…