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Folklife Center News, Volume 11 Numbers 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2011 Folklife Center News AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER BEEF, BELLES, BABIES, NEW PUBLICATIONS PICKOW-RITCHIE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND BLUES COLLECTION Congressional Appointees: C. Kurt Dewhurst, Chair, Michigan Patricia A. Atkinson, Nevada Jean Dorton, Kentucky Joanna Hess, New Mexico William L. Kinney, Jr., South Carolina Margaret Robson, New Mexico Charlie Seemann, Nevada Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Massachusetts Presidential Appointees: Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Department of Veterans Aff airs Jodi Gillette, U.S. Department of the Interior Susan Hildreth, Institute of Museum and Library Famous tunes from the Books, CDs, and LPs from The lifework of Jean Ritchie Services 3 AFC Archive 15 AFC collections 20 and George Pickow comes Robert G. Stanton, U.S. Department of the Interior to AFC Librarian Appointees: Maribel Alvarez, Arizona Tom Rankin, North Carolina Donald Scott, Nevada AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER Ex Offi cio Members Gage Averill, President, Society for Th e American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to “preserve Ethnomusicology and present American folklife” through programs of research, documentation, archival James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training. Th e Peggy A. Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center Center incorporates an archive, which was established in the Music Division of the Library of G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Congress in 1928 and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the Rocco Landesman, Chairman, National United States and around the world. Endowment for the Arts Elaine Lawless, President, American Folklore Folklife Center News publishes articles on the programs and activities of the American Folklife Society Center, as well as other articles on traditional expressive culture. It is available free of charge Jim A. Leach, Chairman, National Endowment from the Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Avenue, S.E., for the Humanities Washington, D.C. 20540–4610. Judith McCulloh (Emerita), Illinois Folklife Center News does not publish announcements from other institutions or reviews of Folklife Center News books from publishers other than the Library of Congress . Readers who would like to comment Volume 33, Nos. 1-2, Winter/Spring 2011 on Center activities or newsletter articles may address their remarks to the editor. Stephen D. Winick, Editor ONLINE INFORMATION RESOURCES: Th e American Folklife Center’s website provides David A. Taylor, Editorial Advisor full texts of many AFC publications, information about AFC projects, multimedia presentations Morgan E. Greene & Stanley Bandong, of selected collections, links to Web resources on ethnography, and announcements of Designers upcoming events. Th e address for the home page is http://www.loc.gov/folklife/. An index of Cover: Members of the young Cajun band Feufollet (Clockwise from top left: Serge Philippe Billeaudeaux, the site’s contents is available at http://www.loc.gov/folklife/az-index.html. Mike Staff ord, Chris Segura, Anna Edminston, Chris Staff ord) have visited AFC and worked with AFC Th e website for the Veterans History Project provides an overview of the project, an online “kit” collections. Th e catalog card shows that relatives for participants recording oral histories of veterans, and a brief presentation of some examples of the band members were recorded for the AFC of video- and audio-recordings of veterans’ stories. Th e address is Archive by John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s. In the story on page 3, read about Feufollet and other groups http://www.loc.gov/vets. who have used AFC’s unparalleled collections of folk music. Photo by Allison Bohl. A M E R I C A N F OLK LIFE C E N T E R STA F F Administration: Maggie Kruesi, Cataloger Veterans History Project: Tamika Brown, Processing Technician Peggy A. Bulger, Director Valda Morris, Processing Technician Robert Patrick, Director Jennifer Eidson, Processing Technician Mary Bucknum, Special Assistant to Marcia Segal, Processing Archivist Rachel Mears, Supervisor – Program Megan Harris, Librarian (Collection the Director Nora Yeh, Archivist, Coordinator Specialist Specialist) Michael Taft, Head, Archive Bert Lyons, Digital Assets Manager Monica Mohindra, Supervisor – Liaison Candace Milburn, Processing Technician David A. Taylor, Head, Research and Reference: Specialist David Novack, Processing Technician Programs Jennifer A. Cutting, Folklife Specialist Tracey Dodson, Executive Assistant Amie Pleasant, Processing Technician Brock Th ompson, Administrative Specialist Judith A. Gray, Folklife Specialist, Donna Borden, Program Assistant David Quick, Processing Technician Christy Chason, Liaison Specialist JoAnna Russo, Processing Technician Research and Programs: Coordinator Pinesha Harrison, Program Assistant Gabrielle Sanchez, Archivist Th eadocia Austen, Public Events Coordinator Stephanie A. Hall, Automation Specialist Jeff rey Lofton, Liaison Specialist Peter Bartis, Folklife Specialist Todd Harvey, Folklife Specialist American Folklife Center: Jason Steinhauer, Liaison Specialist Nancy Groce, Folklife Specialist Ann Hoog, Folklife Specialist Tel: 202 707–5510 Jamie Stevenson, Liaison Specialist Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist Fax: 202 707–2076 Audio Engineering: Aron Swan, Program Specialist Stephen D. Winick, Writer-Editor E-mail: [email protected] Jonathan Gold, Audio Technician Lisa Taylor, Liaison Specialist www.loc.gov/folklife Processing and Cataloging: Digital Conversion: Rachel Telford, Program Specialist Catherine Hiebert Kerst, Archivist John Barton, Specialist Lynette Brown, Processing Technician Beef, Belles, Babies and Blues: Musical Arrangements Inspired by AFC Archival Materials. By Stephen Winick ver the years since its founding in musicians, of items 1928 as the Archive of American from the AFC’s un­ OFolk Song, the American Folklife paralleled collec­ Center Archive has been explored by a tions of folk music. wide range of artists, including classical Here we discuss, composers, folk fiddlers, jazz bandlead­ in chronological ers, and singer-songwriters, as well as order, some of the actors, novelists and playwrights. In most influential some cases, artists encountered Ameri­ arrangements of can Folklife Center (AFC) materials as archival treasures transcriptions in published books. In from AFC that have Aaron Copland, photographed by Margery other cases, they heard material on the become part of the Smith in the 1960s. LC Library of Congress’s LP releases, or on American sound­ William H. Stepp in the 1930s. Source: P&P Division, Repro # LC­ third-party productions that included scape. Shanachie Records DIG-ppmsca-13454 AFC field recordings. In a few cases, they visited the Folklife Reading Room at 1. “Hoedown” by Aaron Copland (1942) Aaron Copland’s 1942 score for Agnes the Library, and listened to the record­ The best-known classical composition de Mille’s ballet Rodeo. The beloved ings there. Through these creative based on one of AFC’s field recordings is melody has been performed as part of works, AFC undoubtedly the the ballet, and even more famously as archival materials stirring “Hoe­ part of the symphonic suite Four Dance have found their down” section of Episodes from Rodeo, which Copland way into popular extracted from the ballet shortly after its culture. This has premiere. In the latter form, it was first been especially performed in 1943 by Arthur Fiedler true in the case and the Boston Pops, and it remains a of original ar­ staple of “pops” orchestras to this day. rangements, Rock fans might know the 1972 ver­ by well-known sion of “Hoedown” played on electronic composers and keyboards, bass, and drums by Emer­ Lead Belly is one son, Lake and Palmer; this was based of several perform­ on Copland’s arrangement, and brought ers in the AFC the piece even greater fame, reach­ Archive whose ing number five in the Billboard album work was consid­ charts. Readers with only a casual ered important interest in classical or pop music may enough that they still know Copland’s arrangement from a were featured on a series of television advertisements for the postage stamp. American beef industry, which have aired Sheet music for the Weavers’ “Goodnight, Irene” off and on since 1992, with the slogan (left) Lead Belly’s Uncle, Bob Ledbetter, at his “Beef—it’s what’s for dinner!” granddaughter’s home, Mooringsport, Louisiana, Copland’s “Hoedown” is based on 1940. Bob Ledbetter also sang “Goodnight, a unique and distinctive version of the Irene.” LC P&P Division, Repro # LC-DIG-ppm­ fiddle tune “Bonaparte’s Retreat,” which sc-00351 was recorded for the AFC Archive by AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER NEWS 3 Lead Belly with his signature twelve-string Alan and Elizabeth Lomax in Salyersville, Kentucky, in 1937. guitar, for which The musician, William H. Stepp, played this tune quite differ­ he arranged ently from other renditions. In particular, he almost doubled “Rock Island the tempo of the tune, transforming it from a 4/4 march to a Line” in the reel or breakdown. He also altered the rhythm of the piece 1930s enough to make the melody sound quite different from typical performances of “Bonaparte’s Retreat.” Like many of the musicians who have used the Archive, Cop- Meat Puppets land probably did not visit and hear the original field recording. (1994). Because Instead, he likely learned the tune from a book called Our Sing­ of its seminal ing Country (1941), which presented transcriptions of John and importance,
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