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Title	Ruth Stone interview;
Access	Not available online - held remotely at Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory;
Source URL	Original interview: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=ohrc070&chunk.id=d1e5196&startDoc=1 . This item is only available in a cassette audio format or a paper transcript. It is currently not available in digital format.
What is in this collection?	Interviews Oral histories Sound recordings Transcripts
Description	This interview is included in the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. In this interview, Ruth Stone discusses her involvement with the Indiana University Folklore Institute. She discusses her educational background: first living in a village in Liberia and later returning to the United States to attend Juilliard and Hunter College. She discusses her reasons for choosing the IU Folklore Institute to earn her PhD and spends time comparing IU's program to other programs active during that period. She discusses the atmosphere of the Institute while she was a student and names her mentors. She speaks of the competitive atmosphere that was also informal, leading to many parties. She also speaks of her involvement as a professor in developing the ethnomusicology program at IU. She compares the interdisciplinary and international nature of IU's program with others in America. She spends some time discussing the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music, the Mathers Museum, and the Hoagy Carmichael memorabilia. She outlines the influences of Richard Dorson and Stith Thompson on the development of IU's Folklore Institute and on the discipline of folklore as a whole. This collection is part of the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 collection which is available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. It consists of: 59 pages, 3 cassettes (1 7/8 ips, 129 minutes), and index . This collection is closed until 2015 except to authorized project personnel. The IU Folklore Institute, 1987 collection deals with the beginning, the building, and the growth of the Indiana University (IU) Folklore Institute into an internationally recognized program. The interviewees are mostly students and/or faculty of the folklore program from the 1940s to the 1980s. They discuss those who most influenced and impacted the institute, namely Stith Thompson and Richard M. Dorson. They share their memories and experiences of the time they spent, or continue to spend, in the IU Folklore Institute.
Where can I find the original?	This collection is available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory under the call number 87-040. Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. ;
Original Date	December 17, 1987
Interviewee	Stone, Ruth
Interviewer	Harrah-Conforth, Jeanne, 1954-
Other Contributors	Harrah-Johnson, Jeanne, 1954-
Place	Indiana University
This collection is part of the	Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection, available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory
Subject-LCSH	Hunter College Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music Juilliard School Mathers Museum of World Cultures Society of Ethnomusicology University of Northern Iowa Boilès, Charles Lafayette Brandel, Rose Cashion, Jerry Dégh, Linda Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-1981 Glassie, Henry, 1941- Jansen, Judith List, George, 1911-2008 Merriam, Alan P., 1923-1980 Smith, Ronald Richard, 1938- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976 Kpelle language Ethnomusicology Carmichael, Hoagy, 1899-1981--Collectibles
Subject-Keyword	African studies Ethnomusicology curriculum Fieldwork Folklore department pig roast Hoagy Carmichael memorabilia
Geographic Locations discussed	Liberia Hunter College Indiana University Bloomington (Ind.) Iowa New York (N.Y.)
Time periods covered	20th century 1980-1989 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979
Language	eng
Publisher	Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory
Folklorist's Area of Focus	Ethnomusicology
Rights	Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift signed by the interviewee. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of an interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not yet exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Tapes may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it. Because our interviewees edit their transcripts, the transcript (if one exists) is the only version of the interview that may be quoted for publication. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as scholars fully cite any Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's names, and page(s). Please see http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/copycost.html for more details.
Digital Collection	Collecting Memories - Oral Histories of American Folklorists
Type	Sound Text
Search Date	1987-12-17
Identifier	CM-IU043

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