UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA LIBRARY SOUTHWEST FOLKLORE CENTER Records of the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival, 1974-1996 University of Arizona Library Southwest Folklore Center Manuscript Collection SWF 012 DESCRIPTION Correspondence, financial records, publicity, photographs, slides, audio tape reels and tape reel transcripts documenting the Tucson Meet Yourself festival from 1974 to 1996. 32 linear ft. ACQUISITION The collected was acquired by the Southwest Folklore Center as sponsor and organizer of the event. ACCESS No restrictions. COPYRIGHT Requests for permission to publish from the collection should be discussed with the coordinator of the University of Arizona Southwest Folklore Center or the University of Arizona Manuscripts Librarian. It is the researcher's responsibility to obtain the necessary publication rights and copyright clearances for any planned publication. SCOPE AND CONTENT Correspondence, financial records, publicity, photographs, slides, sound reel tapes and transcripts documenting the activities of the Tucson Meet Yourself festival from its inception in 1974 up to the final festival sponsored and organized by the Southwest Folklore Center in 1994, with audio materials for 1996. General files include correspondence, volunteer files, financial records, and publicity relating to food and craft booths, folk artists, musicians, and dancers, workshops and contests. An estimated 400 to 500 photographs and slides exist for each year which cover every aspect of the festival including booths, artists, musicians, dancers, performances, and volunteer workers. 324 reel-to-reel tape recordings cover the main stage performances, interviews and workshops. Performances consist primarily of all kinds of ethnic music, but also include the annual corridos competition, fiddle contests, cowboy poetry and storytelling workshops, railroad oral history interviews, personal interviews and workshops. Transcripts are available for many of the reels. Some Reels have been migrated to CDs available for public use. ARRANGEMENT The collection is arranged in three series: Series I: General Files, 1974-1994 Series II: Photographs and Slides, 1975-1994 Series III: Sound Tape Reels and CDs, 1975-1996. BACKGROUND Tucson Meet Yourself was an annual folklife festival. It was conceived by James S. and Loma Griffith and Mary Sowls, a member of the Cultural Exchange Council, which was then part of Una Noche Plateada. The first festival was held in October, 1974. From the beginning the Cultural Exchange Council (C.E.C.) of Tucson was the major sponsor, although the festival was actually administered by a group separate from the C.E.C. James S. Griffith served as coordinator until the festival ended in October, 1994. In 1994 the Griffiths retired from the festival. At that time, the name was changed to the Tucson Heritage Experience (T.H.E.) festival. (This description taken from comments provided by James S. Griffith.) 2 SERIES DESCRIPTION AND BOX LIST Series I: General Files, 1974-1996. Arrangement: Chronological. Description: This series includes the Tape Transcripts, 1974-1994, for the audio materials in Series III Sound Tape Reels and CDs, the General Administrative records, arranged chronologically, for each year of the festival, and a small collection of files concerning the annual corrido contest. The bulk of the material, the General Administrative records, includes, but is not limited to: newspaper clippings, correspondence, press releases, programs, funding and grant paperwork, and photographs. Some oversize publicity materials are stored in Box 28 of collection SWF 013. Note: These contents are unprocessed; the following only represents an inventory of the materials. Box 1 Tape Transcripts, 1974-1994. 2 General Files, 1974-1981. 3 General Files, 1981-1983. 4 General Files, 1984-1986. 5 General Files, 1987-1989. 6 General Files, 1989-1991. 7 General Files, 1992-1994. 8 General Files, 1974-1996. 9 General Files, 1974-1996 continued and TMY corrido contest files, 1984-1995. Series II: Photographs and Slides, 1975-1994. Arrangement: Chronological. Description: Ca. 400 to 500 photographs, slides and negatives for each year of the festival. Most taken by James S. Griffith, Coordinator of the Southwest Folklore Center and principal organizer of the Festival from 1975-1994. The bulk of the material in this series is housed in binders for each year. Slides and Photographs, 1974-1994 Binder 1 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978 2 1979, 1980, 1981 3 1982 4 1983 5 1984 6 1985 7 1985 8 1986 9 1987 10 1988 11 1989-1990 3 12 1991 13 1992 14 1993 15 1994 16 Duplicate Slides Box 10 Miscellaneuous Slides TMY Press Photographs, 1988 Sonoran Experience Sunny Side HS Slides, 1978 Negatives for TMY Food Booths, 1993 TMY Photographs, 1993 35 mm Film, 1987-1994 Box 11 Binder 1 1987 2 1988 3 1989 4 1990 5 1991 6 1992 7 1993 8 1994 Series III: Sound Tape Reels and CDs, 1975-1994. Arrangement: Chronological. Description: 324 sound tape reels of Tucson Meet Yourself musical performances. See the collection inventory at the end of this document for a description of specific tape reel contents. Tape reels are housed with the audiovisual collections of the Southwest Folklore Center. Some Reels have been migrated to CDs available for public use - these are all located in Box#12. 4 ADDED ENTRIES Folk festivals -- Arizona -- Tucson. Folk music -- Arizona -- Tucson. Corridos. Folk songs, English. Folk songs, Spanish -- Arizona. Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Music. Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Music. Tucson Meet Yourself Collection Sound Reel Inventory Title: Tucson Meet Yourself - 1975 Source: Tucson, Az.,1975; 16 sound tape reels, analog, 10 in. Abstract: NOTES: Tapes are listed chronologically corresponding to the last number of the Local Call Number. The following information is derived from the Acquisitions Inventory and reel containers. The Tucson Meet Yourself main stage presentations from October 2-5, 1975 include: Tape 1: Opening statements (Jim Griffith, Mary Sowls, Reuben Romero): Sally Goodin -- Hiu-O Na Pua O Hawaii (Tucson Hawaii Club): I am Hawaii -- Blue Hawaii -- E Huli ma-ko -- To you sweet heart, aloha -- Huki lau -- Huki lau -- Aloha oe -- Polynesian dances and music (Tucson Hawaii Club) -- Old time country singing (T. Tommy Curtis): Yodeling warmup -- Long black veil -- That was before I met you -- Poor Ellen Smith -- Ora Lee -- White Lighting -- All the good times are past and gone -- Crazy arms -- Cattle call -- Tape 2: Mexican songs from Texas (Lydia Mendoza): Feria de las flores -- Pajarillo barrarqueño -- Celosa -- Mal hombre -- El Pajarito -- Valentin de la Sierra -- Amor bonito -- Flores negras -- Angel miyo -- [untitled] -- Old time fiddling (Leslie Keith, Summerdog Bluegrass Band): Cotton-eyed Joe -- Sally Goodin -- Cumberland gap -- Lee highway blues -- Where the old red river flows -- Tape 3: (Leslie Keith, Summerdog Bluegrass Band), continued: Fire on the mountain -- Johnson's old grey mule -- Orange blossom special -- Cluck old hen -- Pike county breakdown -- Amazing grace -- What a friend we have in Jesus -- Dance music (Apache Crown Dancers): Three untitled songs -- Tape 4: Fiddle and banjo music (Mountain Road String Band): Saint Anne's reel -- Soldier's joy -- Liberty -- Johnson's boys -- Arkansas traveler -- Greek music (Sounds of Greece): Maria metekitrina -- Atsamiko -- A Sailor's dance -- Never on Sunday -- Misiulu -- Akalimachinoa -- [untitled] -- Afro-Cuban music and poetry (Cooperative Arts Repertory Ensemble): Men's dance -- Women's possession dance -- Jazz poem -- 5 Tape 5: Indian music on Tablas (Manju Chandola): Sixteen beat piece -- Vietnamese music (St. Vincent's Vietnamese Singers): Mother's love -- Three untitled songs -- Joe Soukoup Czech music (Czech Social Club): Five untitled songs -- My melody of love -- Two untitled songs -- Tape 6: Old time fiddling (Leslie Keith): Old Joe Clark -- Little rabbit -- Boil them cabbage down -- Old hen she cackled and the rooster crowed -- Fire on the mountain -- Tape 7: Banjo and vocal music (Willie Walker, Mrs. Walker): Shanty in old shanty town -- I get the blues when it rains -- Sheik of Araby -- Baby won't you please come home -- I get the blues when it rains -- Sheik of Araby -- Bye, bye blues -- Filipino and English vocals (Philippine American Society; Pete Cano, vocals): Because of you -- Moro dance -- Cowboy stories, poems, and songs (Van Holyoak): [untitled] -- Deer hunting -- Terry Sloan and the bees -- The Gol-durn wheel -- My buddy -- When the works all done this fall -- Boomer Johnson -- Utah carl -- Bear roping -- Tape 8: Norteño music (Mark Enis and Company): Polka -- Flor morena -- [untitled] -- Quiero que sepas -- That old waltz -- Ay jalisco, no te rajes -- Mexican music (Josefina Mungarray): Dejame beasarte -- Me haces falta tu -- Aquella estrella -- Esos ojos -- Papago songs and music (Papago Desert Indians): Skipping or scraping dance -- Two untitled dances -- Warrior song -- [untitled] -- Round dance -- Tape 9: Latin music (Victor Rivera y Su Conjunto): [untitled] -- Watercolors -- Vamanos Pa'el Monte -- Two untitled songs -- Swedish music (Children from VASA): [untitled] -- Scottish music (Seven Pipers): [untitled] -- John McDonald of Glencoe -- Shathspey -- Highland fling, sword dance -- Scotland the brave -- Serbian music (Serbian Tamburitzan Orchestra): Circle dance -- Circle dance in 4 -- Four untitled pieces -- Tape 10: (Serbian Tamburitzan Orchestra), continued: Song fragment -- Walking circle dance -- Two untitled songs -- Celtic music (David Page, Irish