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Title	James Madison Carpenter interview;
Access	Not available online - held remotely at the Library of Congress;
Source URL	Catalog record information: http://lccn.loc.gov/2004695192
What is in this collection?	Black-and-white photographs Color photographs Interviews Oral histories Photographs Sound recordings Transcripts Microfilms Drawings (visual works) Correspondence Field notes Field recordings Gelatin dry plate negatives Lantern slides Lecture notes Lectures Manuscripts Negatives
Description	This interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This collection consists of sound recordings, manuscripts, and graphic materials documenting English, Scottish, and American folk music, dance, children's games, and British folk drama and festivals. Content includes approximately 1,000 ballad texts and 850 tunes of the Francis J. Child canon; 500 sea songs; 1,000 other ballads and songs from Great Britain and the United States, particularly from North Carolina and Mississippi; 200 children's singing games, riddles, and nursery rhymes; 300 English and Scottish folk plays; miscellaneous folktales, Cornish carols, and African-American spirituals; with over 500 related photographic images and 40 drawings collected by James Madison Carpenter from 1928 to 1955. Additions to the collection, including an interview with Carpenter in 1972, lecture notes, and papers of Carpenter's Duke University students, date to 1987. Included is Carpenter's correspondence with John A. Lomax and others. Dance content includes documentation of sword dance plays, fiddle tunes for Morris dance, and photographs of Morris dance (with broom dancing), sword dance, Helston furry dance, and dancing at May Day celebrations and at English Folk Dance Society festivals. Drawings by George Baker illustrate mummers' plays and characters. The collection includes a few items from Ireland and Wales. This collection consists of 28.5 linear ft. (58 boxes) ca. 21,600 items, 19,417 manuscript items, 175 sound cylinders, 221 sound discs (analog, 78 rpm, 12 in.), 563 photographs (composed of negatives, photographic prints, glass negatives, lantern slides, slides, black and white, colored), 40 drawings (pencil, ink, black and white, and colored), and 10 microfilm reels. Note: Sound recordings are in English, Scots, Scottish Gaelic and in Cornish dialect. Biography/History note: James Madison Carpenter (1889-1984) was an American professor of English and a university lecturer. After obtaining his doctorate from Harvard in 1929, he spent the next six years as a Harvard Fellow, traveling throughout England and Scotland collecting folk songs, folk plays, and other folklore material. In 1938, he began teaching at Duke University and continued folk song research there until 1943. He served as Chair of the English Department at Greensboro College, North Carolina, where he taught for 10 years, and retired to his hometown of Booneville, Mississippi in 1964. Carpenter died on July 4, 1984.
Where can I find the original?	This item is available at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, with call numbers: AFC 1972/001. The DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center is located at 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA.;
Original Date	1972
Interviewee	Carpenter, James Madison, 1888-1983;
Interviewer	Jabbour, Alan
Collection Name	James Madison Carpenter collection;
This collection is part of the	American Folklore Society Oral History Project
Subject-LCSH	African Americans--Music Ballads, English--England Ballads, English--Scotland Ballads, Scots--Scotland Baths, Roman--England--Photographs Carols--England--Cornwall (County) Castles--Scotland--Photographs Children's songs, English--England Children's songs, English--Scotland Children's songs, English--United States Christmas music--Great Britain Christmas plays--Great Britain Country life--England--Photographs Country life--Scotland--Photographs English language--Dialect--Cornwall (County) Festivals--Great Britain Fiddle tunes--England Fiddle tunes--Scotland Fiddlers--Great Britain--Photographs Field recordings--Great Britain Field recordings--United States Folk dancing, English--Great Britain Folk dancing--Great Britain--Photographs Folk drama, English--England Folk drama, Scottish--Scotland Folk festivals--England--Photographs Folk music--Great Britain Folk music--United States Folk songs, English--England--History and criticism Folk songs, English--England Folk songs, English--Scotland--History and criticism Folk songs, English--Scotland Folk songs, English--United States--Texts Folk songs, English--United States Folk songs, Scots--Scotland Folk songs, Scottish Gaelic--Scotland Folk songs--Great Britain--Texts Holidays--Great Britain May Day--England--Photographs Megalithic monuments--Great Britain--Photographs Morris dance--England Mumming plays--England--Texts Mumming plays--Scotland--Texts Mumming--England--Drawings Mumming--Scotland Nursery rhymes--Great Britain Nursery rhymes--United States Sea songs--England Sea songs--Scotland Sea songs--United States Singing games--England Singing games--Scotland Singing games--United States Spirituals (Songs)--Mississippi Sword-dance--England Cornwall (England : County)--Antiquities--Photographs Cornwall (England : County)--Social life and customs England--Social life and customs Great Britain--Antiquities--Photographs Scotland--Social life and customs Carpenter, James M.--Correspondence Carpenter, James M.--Ethnomusicological collections Carpenter, James M.--Interviews Carpenter, James M.--Written works
Geographic Locations discussed	Cornwall (England : County) Great Britain England Scotland
Time periods covered	20th century
Publisher	Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.;
Rights	Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Collection is open for research; access copies are available in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress. Please contact the Folklife Reading Room at folklife@loc.gov; 202-707-5510.;
Digital Collection	Collecting Memories - Oral Histories of American Folklorists
Type	Sound Text Image StillImage
Search Date	1972
Identifier	CM-LC0010

James Madison Carpenter interview;

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