Kenneth Goldstein MUNFLA Song Collections Finding Aid Carol Pelletier, comp. with the assistance of Sandra Hounsell March 1996 Introduction 1 Inventory of Collections 3 Tape Number Concordance 7 Song Title Index 13 Performer Index 87 Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) St. John's, Newfoundland CANADA A1B 3X8 1996 ...\kgoldsco.hd This finding aid gives access to the folksong collections of Dr. Kenneth S. Goldstein (1927-1995) housed at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA). Kenneth Goldstein, a distinguished American folklore scholar and theorist, spent two years (1976-78) as the head of the Department of Folklore at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. From that time until his death on 11 November 1995 he was a Research Associate at Memorial. In this capacity and with several local collectors, from 1978 until 1990, he amassed a collection of folksongs from various parts of Newfoundland and Labrador. His Newfoundland collections came from St. John’s, the Southern Shore, St. Mary’s Bay, Placentia Bay, the Burin Peninsula, Conception Bay, Trinity Bay, Bonavista Bay, White Bay, Fogo Island, the Great Northern Peninsula and the Codroy Region. He also recorded songs in Central Labrador and the southern coast of Labrador. About 3400 songs were collected by Goldstein from 243 performers in the province. The Goldstein materials at MUNFLA comprise 208 tapes, organized into twenty-three collections. Each tape is uniquely identified by its own shelflist number (prefixed by an F- or a C-, depending on whether it is a workcopy), and each collection by its accession number. Any song can be fully cited by its title and the combination of shelflist and accession numbers assigned to it. Goldstein planned a linked series of books to make available to scholars and the public his entire Newfoundland collection. Unfortunately his death came before he was able to bring the project to fruition. Nonetheless, he had through his life in Newfoundland published several articles and notes based on songs in his MUNFLA collections. In the early 1980s he, with collaborators, published five short notes on Newfoundland songs and singers in a short-lived magazine of Newfoundland and Labrador folklore, The Livyere.1 His main contributions to a 1983 highschool textbook series on Newfoundland folk literature were based, in part, on his fieldwork collections. One was called Folksong23 and the other Recitations and Monologues. In 1985 he published "Faith and Fate in Sea Disaster Ballads of Newfoundland Fishermen."4 In 1991 he published "A Report on Continuing Research into 'Treason Songs': A Private "Song: Songs from the Repertoire of James Patrick Kelly." The Livyere 1:2 (1981), 12-17. With William C. Butt: "Song: Songs from the Repertoire of Tom King." The Livyere 1:1 (Summer 1981), 14-17. With Ellen McDonald: "Song: Songs from the Repertoire of Leander Roberts." The Livyere 1:2/4 (Winter-Spring 1982), 14-19. With Peter Narváez and Wilfred Wareham: "Four Songs from the Repertory of Dorman Ralph." The Livyere 2:1 (August-October 1982), 14-20. With Aidan O'Hara: "Song: Songs from the Repertoire of Carrie Brennan." The Livyere [2:1] (June 1983), 6-13. Folk Literature series, no. 4 (St. John's: Breakwater, 1983). Folk Literature series, no. 5 (St. John's: Breakwater, [1983]). In Roger D. Abrahams, et.al., eds., By Land and By Sea: Studies in the Folklore of Work and Leisure Honoring Horace P. Beck on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Hatboro: Legacy Books), 1985, pp. 84-94. K. S. Goldstein Inventory - 1 Newfoundland Folksong Tradition."5 Goldstein recorded his tapes on full- and half-track, quarter-inch audio tape on a Nagra, and later on a variety of cassettes machines, notably a Sony stereo TC5 and a Sony monaural TCM5000. MUNFLA holds cassette copies of all the tapes in the collection while the cassette and open-reel originals are in the Goldstein private collection in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Most of MUNFLA's copies were made by Goldstein himself at MUNFLA soon after collection. The finding aid is divided into four sections: - a description of the Goldstein holdings at MUNFLA organized by accession number; - a tape number concordance of the collector’s numbers and the MUNFLA shelflist numbers; - a song title index, alphabetically arranged, including MUNFLA tape shelflist numbers; and, - a performer index including MUNFLA tape shelflist numbers. Almost entirely, the index of songs is based on titles given by Goldstein himself when he prepared tables of contents for each of his tapes. Carol Pelletier 25 March 1996 In Gerald Thomas and John D.A. Widdowson, eds., Studies in Newfoundland Folklore: Community and Process (St. John’s: Breakwater, 1991), pp. 126-153. K. S. Goldstein Inventory - 2 Kenneth Goldstein Collections Inventory Accession Title and Description Number 76-392 Aidan O’Hara: “Oh Newfoundland is a Wide Plantation -- The Story of the Irish Settlements in Newfoundland.” (Produced for Newfoundland School Broadcasts.) One 1200' audio reel tape: F3197/C3353. 77-006 Folktracks cassettes. The Centre for Oral Traditions: Harberton, Totnes, Devon. Eighty-three audio-cassette commercially released tapes varying in length from 30 to 90 minutes: F2273c-352c, F2437c-39c. 77-098 Grassroots Collection Six C90 audio cassette tapes: F2457c-62c. 77-387 Music and Mummers’ Play recorded at the St. John’s Folk Music Club, 21 December 1977 Two C90 audio cassette tapes: F3369c-70c/C3342-3. 78-036 Manuscript letters to Julie Hauri, Valdine Cwiko, K. Goldstein, and Marilyn Willcott in response to request for songs published in the St. John’s Evening Telegram 18 February 1978; and miscellaneous correspondence and taped interviews regarding folksong project. One 94 pp. manuscript; two C60 audio cassette tapes: F4198c-99c/C4550-1. 78-233 Four photocopied pocket songsters. PD36 “Cape Breton Songster: A Book of Favorite English and Gaelic Songs.” comp. Alphonse MacDonald. nd. 36pp. PD37 “Burke’s Christmas Songster: Xmas 1926.” 10pp. PD39 “Burke’s Popular Songs.”nd. 10pp. PD51 “Burke’s Popular Songs.” December 1928. 10pp. 78-239 with Aidan O’Hara, Gerald Thomas and Hugh Rowlings. Folksongs Collected from Cape Shore, Cape St. George and Northern Peninsula; Summer 1978. Seventeen C90 audio cassette tapes: F4149c-65c/C3572-88. K. S. Goldstein Inventory - 3 79-001 with Eric West and Marilyn Willcott. Folksongs Collected from Placentia Bay; Winter 1979. Eight C60 audio cassette tapes: F4413c-19c, F4463c/C3837-43, C3775. 79-002 with Wilfred Wareham. Folksongs Collected from Arnold’s Cove, Kingwell and Harbour Buffett, P.B., Winter 1978/79. Five C60 audio cassette tapes, one C90 audio cassette tape: F4420c-25c/C3693-8. 79-274 Recording of a lecture given by Elisabeth Greenleaf, at the Kingston Ceilidh, University of Rhode Island, 14 November 1969, dealing with her experiences in Newfoundland in the 1920's. One 1200' audio reel tape: F4839/C4251. 80-134 with Margaret Bennett. Folksongs collected during Codroy Valley Field trip, 19-22 July 1980. Seven 1800' audio reel tapes: F3453-59/C4791-7. 80-135 with Lisa Null Folksongs collected from Cape Shore and Placentia Bay, Summer 1980. Eight 1800' audio reel tapes: F3460-66, F3553/C4798-804, C4894. 80-140 Three photocopies of Johnny Burke Songsters. PD1110 “Burke’s Christmas Songster, Xmas 1926.” 11pp. PD 1111 “Burke’s Popular Songs.” 1927. 11pp. PD 1112 “Burke’s Popular Songs.” December 1928. 12pp. 80-136 with Stephanie Squires. Folksongs collected from Maurice Hogan of Flatrock, 25 July 1980. Two 1800' audio reel tapes: F3467-68/C4805-6. 80-137 with Diane Goldstein, Maura Baker and Mary Drake. Folksongs collected from Burin Peninsula, 27-8 July 1980. Four 1800' audio reel tapes: F3469-72/C4807-10. 80-196 Mack Masters: Songs and Stories of a Newfoundland Sea Captain, recorded at the Mariposa Folk Festival, 1976. One C60 audio cassette tape: F3531c/C4870. 80-203 with Wilfred Wareham. Folksongs collected from Gerald Campbell of Branch and Albert Roche of St. Brides, 13 August 1980. K. S. Goldstein Inventory - 4 Four 1800' audio reel tapes: F3554-7/C4895-8. 81-339 with Robert Tarrant and Gary Butler. Folksongs from Burin Peninsula, Conception Bay North and St. John’s. Also a discussion of mummering by Paddy Judge of Patrick’s Cove, P.B., Summer 1981. Fifteen C90 audio cassette tapes: F7923c-37c/ C7837-51. 82-167 with Denyse O’Brien, Ellen MacDonald and Wilfred Wareham. Folksongs from central and coastal Labrador, October, 1981. Seven C90 audio cassette tapes, Four C60 audio cassette tapes, One C46 audio cassette tape: F5852c-63c/C5780-91. 82-177 with Diane Goldstein, Gary Butler and Ruth King. Folksongs collected from Cape Shore and West Coast, July 1982, includes some selections from the Hangashore Festival, Prince Edward Park, near Corner Brook. Five C90 audio cassette tapes, one C60 audio cassette tape: F5871c-76c/C5800-05. 82-248 with Denyse O’Brien. Folksongs collected from Southern Labrador, August, 1982. Ten C90 audio cassette tapes: F5936c-45c, F6308c-10c/C5859-68. 83-151 with Wilfred Wareham and Mary Flynn. Interview with and folksongs by Mary Flynn, July 1983; photocopy of her ms songbook. Ms. 90pp. typed. Two C60 audio cassette tapes: F6303c-04c/C6224-5. 83-376 with Wilfred Wareham. Folksongs collected from the South Coast, Summer 1983. Seventeen LNX90 audio cassette tapes: F6711c-27c/C6635-51. 83-378 with Wilfred Wareham, Lawrence Small and John Ashton. Folksongs collected from Southeast Bight, Tilting, Cull’s Harbour and Victoria Cove, August 1983. Nine LNX90 audio cassette tapes: F6728c-36c/C6652-60. 84-398 with Diane Goldstein and Wilfred Wareham. Folksongs collected from St. Brides, Blanc Sablon and West St. Modeste, August 1983. Four C90 audio cassette tapes: F7267c-70c/C7216-9. K. S. Goldstein Inventory - 5 84-399 with Diane Goldstein and Wilfred Wareham.