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Richard A. Reuss papers, 1888-1993, bulk 1927-1973

A Guide to his papers at the Indiana University Archives


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Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Reuss, Richard A.

Title
Richard A. Reuss papers, 1888-1993,  bulk 1927-1973

Collection No.
C6

Extent
12 cubic feet

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
Richard Reuss was an Indiana University alumnus and professor of folklore and also a distinguished scholar of folksong revival. Collection includes photographs, books, artwork, clippings, song books and sheets, correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, teaching materials, and publications.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Advance notice is required.

Biographical Note

Richard A. Reuss was well-respected as a pioneering scholar of the folksong revival. His collection contains the documentary materials on which he and several other scholars drew heavily for their publications on Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and the folksong revival. Scholars of and participants in the folksong revival appreciated Reuss for his detailed knowledge, his intellectual honesty and his gracious and helpful responses to their requests for facts, analysis, citations and reviews.

His rich and varied correspondence and interviews with so many scholars and performers of the period provide a vantage point for peering into the political and intellectual currents and disputes that surrounded folklore and folksong scholarship from the 1960s until his death in 1986.

Richard A. Reuss was born May 24, 1940 in New York City. He received a B.A. in history from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1962, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University in 1965 and 1971 respectively. Reuss died in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 17, 1986 at the age of 46 due to complications from respiratory disease.

In 1976 Reuss spent the summer and fall as visiting Assistant Professor of Folklore at Indiana University in what turned out to be his final university teaching position. Prior to IU, the bulk of Reuss' teaching career was spent in Michigan, first at Wayne State University in Detroit where he taught folklore in the Anthropology Department from 1968 to 1974, and later at the University of Michigan, part time, in 1974. Before this, Reuss taught at the University of California in Los Angeles in the fall of 1967.

Following several unsuccessful attempts to publish his 1971 dissertation, “American Folklore and Leftwing Politics: 1927 1957,” Reuss dropped "efforts to see his dissertation into print, a decision which may have cost him his academic folklore appointment and eventually led him out of the field of folklore into counseling” (David D. Dunaway in Songs About Work, 1993, p. 7). Starting in 1977, Reuss worked in the financial aid department at the University of Michigan. In 1981 Reuss completed a Masters of Social Work at Michigan. He spent the remainder of his professional life working at a Detroit community mental health clinic.

Reuss's research interests fell largely into three, sometimes overlapping, areas: the American left's use of folk music (especially between 1927 and 1957), Woody Guthrie, and the "popular folksong revival." In pursuing these interests Reuss gathered a large collection of ephemeral publications relating to the folksong revival, clippings from the Daily Worker, New Masses, and other left leaning press publications. He interviewed and corresponded with folksong composers, folklore scholars, acquaintances and relatives of Woody Guthrie, and other folk song performers and personalities.

Other activities Reuss pursued at various periods in his life include work as Editorial Assistant for the Journal of the Folklore Institute (Indiana University), 1964 and 1966, and work as a volunteer reorganizing the People's Songs Library at Sing Out! magazine in the summer of 1965. Reuss received a research grant from the Guthrie Children's Trust Fund in 1966 1967, and was President of the Michigan chapter of the Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease from 1971 to 1973. Reuss also served as chairman of the American Folklore Society History Committee from 1968 to 1974 and is well-regarded for his contributions to the historiography of the field of folklore.

In 2000, Reuss‘s dissertation, based on many of the collection’s materials, was published posthumously by Scarecrow Press as American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957. He never completed his planned biography of Woody Guthrie, although his published works include A Woody Guthrie Bibliography: 1912-1967 (New York: Guthrie Children's Trust Fund), 1968, and “Songs of American Labor, Industrialization and the Urban Work Experience: a Discography.” Reuss also published a number of articles and reviews including the 1970 "Woody Guthrie and His Folk Tradition" in Journal of American Folklore 83.

Arrangement

Papers organized into fives series: Correspondence; Teaching; Major research projects; General research and activities; and Collected publications.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains material accumulated by Richard A. Reuss as a result of his research and professional activities in folklore and folksong. These activities occupied Reuss up to his death in 1986, but relate most particularly to the period beginning with Reuss's enrollment at Indiana University as a graduate student in 1962 and ending with his visiting professorship in 1976. Material in the collection dates from 1888 through 1986 with the bulk falling between 1927 and 1973.

The collection is organized into five series: Correspondence, Teaching, Major research projects, General research and activities, and Collected publications. Materials include notebooks, photographs, two phonograph records, books, catalogs and artwork. The most common materials, however, are clippings, magazines, newsletters, song books, song sheets, programs, bibliographies, discographies, correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, lectures, and articles. Note that although most of the correspondence and the folklore publications are found in their respective series, some correspondence and folklore publications materials may also be found in the two research materials series: Major research projects and General research and activities. Also note that additional materials on some topics contained within the Major research projects series may be found in other series (where it is not tied to one specific major project).

While the strict provenance of the collection is unknown and earlier attempts at organization and arrangement are undocumented, the current organization seems to follow the original order of Reuss’s own filing system, especially in retaining the original folder titles. As a result, the key words by which folders are alphabetized do not appear consistently at the beginning of the folder label.

The Correspondence series contains materials dating from 1957 to 1986 with the bulk falling between 1964 and 1973. Arrangement is alphabetical by last name of the correspondent, with chronological arrangement within folders. Some miscellaneous and unsorted correspondence materials are included at the end of the series.

Notable correspondents include 1948 Presidential candidate Henry Wallace, Lee Hays, Alan Lomax, Walter Lowenfels, Bess Hawes, Bill Clifton, and Maxine Crissman. Others well-represented include Irwin Silber, Pete Seeger, Ellen Stekert, and Jeff Guthrie, a relative of Woody Guthrie’s. There is also extensive correspondence with Gordon Friesen, husband of Almanac Singer Sis Cunningham, as well as with Gladys Gordon and Sylvia Grider concerning their memories of and/or research on Woody Guthrie.

Colleagues and publishers with whom Reuss frequently corresponded include Archie Green, R. Serge Denisoff, Israel Young, Judy McCulloh, and Harold Levanthal.

Folders in the Teaching series are arranged into six sub-series. The first five sub-series are arranged by course title: American Folklore, Ballad and Folksong, Introduction to Folklore, Oral Tradition and Written History, and Urban Folklore. A few files which are not specific to any individual course are listed in the sub-series, Teaching Folklore Materials. Arrangement within course titles is generally alphabetical, although some handouts and introductory material precede the alphabetical listings. Materials contained in this series are predominantly lecture notes and class handouts (including syllabi, exams, and bibliographies.)

Folders within the Major research projects series are further organized into three sub-series: Woody Guthrie, Folksong Revival, and Folksong and the Left Wing. Arrangement within each sub-series is largely alphabetical.

The Woody Guthrie sub-series ranges from 1894 to 1983 with the years 1938 1970 particularly well represented. Materials include interviews, drafts and prospectuses, notes, and bibliography about Woody Guthrie. In addition there are transcriptions and photocopies of letters, songs, and writings by Guthrie. Arrangement of folders within this sub-series generally uses the following order: items originating from Guthrie, information about Guthrie collected by Reuss, works on Guthrie produced by Reuss.

The Folksong Revival sub-series runs from 1938 to 1984, most dated within 1960 1970. There are articles on concerts and performers, reviews, interviews, inventories, bibliography, and concert notes. The general arrangement within sub-series is published clippings, followed by unpublished interviews, bibliographic lists, and lastly, liner and concert notes. Two folders SPOTFR (which contains various letters and financial statements, mostly from folk performers and promoters) and Term Papers Related to The Folksong Revival do not fit these categories.

The Folksong and the Left Wing sub-series contains items dating from 1888 1985, the bulk of which runs from 1927 1971. It contains a synopsis and other materials relating to an anthology project. The bulk of the material consists of interviews, notes, synopses, and articles connected with Reuss's graduate thesis. Subjects covered include the Almanac Singers, and Marxism and Folksong. Thesis material follows the anthology material and is arranged, for the most part, according to a list of folder titles developed by Reuss.

Folders in the General research and activities series contain interviews, clippings, songs, bibliographies, notes, letters, and offprints. Material dates from 1899 to 1985 with the bulk running from 1928 1980. Items are arranged alphabetically by subject. A more general treatment of the Almanac Singers than that found in the Major research projects series is located here. American Folklore Society history committee materials, files on a number of singers, activists, and academics (in particular Charles and Pete Seeger, as well as Israel Young), in addition to a sizable collection of song sheets photocopied from the People's Songs Library (PSL) are included here.

PSL songsheets occasionally include brief comments handwritten by the songwriter. There are PSL songsheets from the Almanac Singers, Huddie Ledbetter, Ella May Wiggins, Sis Cunningham, Malvina Reynolds, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Bob Dylan among others. Original correspondence and interviews of B. A. Botkin, Irwin Silber, Charles Seeger, and Israel Young, as well as copies of correspondence belonging to the Almanac Singers, Sing Out!, and Margaret Larkin can also be found in this series.

Newsletters, songbooks, and other folk related publications make up two sub-series of the Collected publications series. Items range in date from 1907 to 1985, with the bulk falling between 1962 and 1972. The first sub-series, Publications by title is arranged alphabetically by publication title. The second sub-series, Publications by subject is arranged alphabetically by subject and contains publications filed together according to general subject rather than by individual title, and Includes a miscellaneous publications folder at the end.

In addition the series includes newsletters from the American Folklore Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and numerous regional folksong and folklore organizations. Among the more extensive collections of serials are Broadside and the University of Michigan's Folklore Society Newsletter. Other serials include Recorded Sound and Tradition from Great Britain, The John Edwards Memorial Foundation Newsletter, West Virginia Folklore, Mountain Life and Work, and Songmakers' Almanac.

Single works include H. G. Sear's Talking of Music, and Songs for the Sixties, both published by the Workers' Music Association. Music and dance publications by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Bob Dylan's “Talking Folklore Center,” published by Israel Young's Folklore Center, The Hoadl'y Songbook (a mimeographed collection of songs in defense of an Indiana University organization), and songbooks from the IWW or AFL CIO are among the numerous other titles in this series. Also includes "Songs about Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss."

Additional Sources of Information

Reuss’s dissertation published posthumously as: American folk music and left-wing politics, 1927-1957 / Richard A. Reuss ; with JoAnne C. Reuss, Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.

See IUCAT for “Reuss, Richard A.” as author, includes many taped interviews with subjects on file in this collection.

The Richard Dorson Papers in the Indiana University-Bloomington Lilly Library-Box 72: Dissertations, folder 21: Reuss, Richard A.

Wasn't That a Time? : the Richard Reuss Memorial Folk Music Conference. 13 sound cassettes deposited the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University. 91-224-F ATL 11186--11194

"Wasn't That a Time!": Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival, Edited by Ronald D. Cohen , Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1995.

The Richard Reuss Collection of College Songs at the Michigan State University Museum. http://museum.cl.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/Collections/reuss.html

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Accessions 9319-9332.
Usage Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[Item], Richard A. Reuss papers, Collection C6, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Processing Information
Processed by Win Lanchester

Re-processed by Verlon L. Stone.

Completed in 2004.


Series: Correspondence, 1936-1986 

Box 1 Roger Abrahams, 1966-1971 

Lis Ambellan, 1969 

(includes interview)


Irma Bauman, 1967-1968 

Earl Browder, 1968 

Robert E. Burke, 1966 

Milton Cantor, 1967-1971 

Ken Clarke, 1965-1967 

Bill Clifton, 1966-1967 

Mick Counihan, 1966 

Maxine Crissman, 1968-1972 

R. Serge Denisoff, 1967-1972 

Tom Dexter, 1966-1967 

Bee Dill, 1966-1967 

David Dunaway, 1976-1985 

Brandy Ebb, 1965-1966 

Lisa Feldman, 1968-1969 

Thon Fikkerman, 1967-1968 

Edith Fowke, 1966 

Emil Freed, 1968 

Albert B. Friedman, 1967 

Gordon Friesen, 1963-1984 

Will Geer, 1966-1968 

Kim Goldstein, 1966-1969 

Gladys Gordon, 1936-1969 

(includes photocopy of Guthrie letter)


Archie Green, 1962-1985 

John Greenway, 1961-1969 

Sylvia Grider, 1966-1972 

Jeff Guthrie, 1967-1972 

(includes photos)


Marjorie Guthrie, 1967-1972 

Misc. Guthrie Letters, 1965-1981 

(various persons)


Jean Hammons, 1965-1966 

Bruce & Jeanne Harrah-Conforth, 1984-1986 

Bess Hawes, 1969 

Lee Hays, 1965 

Joe Hickerson, 1964-1969 

Frank Hoffmann, 1965-1970 

Dave and Charlotte Johnson, 1969 

Ed Kahn, 1965-1966 

Harold Levanthal, 1965-1976 

(re. Reuss' Guthrie Children's Trust Fund contract)


Guy Logsdon, 1966-1971 

Alan Lomax, 1960-1971 

Walter Lowenfels, 1957-1969 

Bill C. Malone, 1967-1969 

Judy McCulloh, 1965-1985 

Harry Menig, 1975 

Toru Mitsui, 1968-1971 

Newport Folk Foundation, 1964 

Rich Pevear, 1960-1965 

A. Poulin, Jr., 1965-1966 

Hazel Ann Ransom, 1965-1967 

Neil Rosenberg, 1967-1969 

Elizabeth Schlappi, 1965-1966 

Pete Seeger, 1957-1983 

Pete Seeger, 1969 

(about Guthrie)


Irwin Silber, 1957-1983 

George Simpson, 1968-1969 

Ellen Stekert, 1965-1968 

Hally Wood Stephenson, 1969 

George Tye, 1966-1969 

Mary Vernon, 1967 

Tony Wales, 1969 

Henry Wallace, 1964 

Dave Wells, 1961-1963 

E. Victor Wolfenstein, 1970-1972 

Letters Dealing with the Folksong Revival (misc.), 1960-1985 

Publication Responses to Reuss’s Work, 1961-1967 

Professional Correspondence, 1969-1973 

Richard Reuss Misc. Professional Correspondence, 1970-1980 

Professional Correspondence, 1969-1985 

WSU Memoranda, including Deposit Agreement, 1968-1972 

Unsorted Correspondence, 1965-1979 

Series: Teaching, 1927-1977 

Subseries: American Folklore,

Box 2 American Folklore Syllabi, 1972-1973 

Bibliography, undated 

Book Report List, ca. 1972 

Exams, 1966-1973 

1st Day Handouts, 1972-1973 

Introduction, 1974-1976 

American Humor, undated 

The Folk and the Lore, undated 

The Hero, ca. 1967-1976 

Immigrant Lore, ca. 1977 

Negro Folklore, ca. 1976 

Occupational Lore, ca. 1975 

Problems in American Folklore, ca. 1974 

Regional Folklore, ca. 1976+ 

Witchcraft and Colonial Lore, undated 

Subseries: Ballad and Folksong,

Box 2 Ballad and Folksong Exams, 1967-1969 

Introduction, undated 

American Ballads, undated 

British Ballads, undated 

Broadsides, undated 

Misc. Broadsides, ca. 1927-1965 

Creativity and Change, undated 

The Folk and the Folk Process, undated 

Folksong Revival, undated 

Folksong Style, undated 

Formulaic Composition, ca. 1967+ 

Functions of Folksongs, undated 

Historical Roots of Study, undated 

Occupational Folksong, undated 

Song Liner Notes, undated 

Spirituals, undated 

Ellen Stekert Folksong Notes, undated 

Theory and Scholarship, undated 

The Unfortunate Rake, undated 

World Folksong, undated 

Subseries: Introduction to Folklore,

Box 2 Intro to Folklore Syllabi, 1967-1972 

Book Report List, 1971-1972 

Exams, 1965-1973 

Introduction, ca. 1969+ 

Beginnings of Folklore Study, undated 

Collecting, undated 

Folk Art, ca. 1971-1976 

Folklore and Literature, History, and Anthropology, undated 

Folklore Theories, undated 

Folksong, ca. 1973 

Folktale, undated 

Functions of Folklore, undated 

Games, undated 

The Hero, undated 

Legend, ca. 1971-1973 

Myth, ca. 1963+ 

Proverb, ca. 1974 

Riddle, undated 

Rites of Passage, ca. 1974 

Superstition and Belief, ca. 1971 

Subseries: Oral Tradition and Written History,

Box 2 Oral Tradition and Written History--Syllabus, ca. 1970-1971 

A607 Class Handouts, ca. 1972 

Introduction, ca. 1971-1974 

Detroit Race Riot (1943), ca. 1970 

General, ca. 1974 

Subseries: Urban Folklore,

Box 2 Urban Folklore--Course Requirements, 1969-1972 

Anthropology 605 Syllabi, ca. 1971-1973 

Book Report List, 1970 

1st Day Handout, 1973 

Introduction, 1972-1974 

Assimilation, undated 

Blues, ca. 1969-1971 

The City, ca. 1974+ 

Concepts of Folk Society, ca. 1970 

Country Music, undated 

Drug Lore, ca. 1968+ 

Folk Stereotypes, ca. 1976-1977 

Folklore and Mass Communication, undated 

Gans, The Urban Villagers, undated 

History of Urban Folklore Studies, undated 

Mintz, Legends of the Hasidim, undated 

The Study of Immigrant Lore, undated 

Subseries: Teaching Folklore Materials,

Box 2 Folklore Paperbacks in Print, undated 

Collection Guides, ca. 1968 

Folklore Course Syllabi, 1966-1973 

Course Syllabi, ca. 1974 

Black Counter Culture Test, undated 

Jewish Culture Test, undated 

Exams, undated 

Series: Major research projects, 1909-1985 

Subseries: Woody Guthrie

Box 3 Woody Guthrie, ca. 1938-1983 

Woody Guthrie Manuscripts (Songs), ca. 1938-1951,  1972 

Woody Guthrie Ten Songs, 1945 

"Woody Sez" Columns (Mixed), 1939-1940 

Woody Guthrie Prose Writings, 1940-1947 

Woody Guthrie Logs, 1937-1947 

Woody Guthrie Letters, 1935-1967 

Guthrie Genealogy, 1967-1968 

Charley Guthrie, 1909-1969 

The J. Frank Burke Newsletter, 1958-1966 

Social History Bearing on Woody Guthrie, 1909-1969 

Okemah Notes, 1911,  1966-1967 

Okemah Odds and Ends, 1894,  1964-1967 

Pampa Odds and Ends, ca. 1967 

Pampa Notes, 1968-1971 

Interviews on Woody Guthrie, 1966-1969 

Jeff Guthrie Transcripts (Tape), 1967 

Addresses Relating to Woody Guthrie, undated 

Maxine Crissman (Lefty Lou from Old Mizzou), 1967-1968 

Guthrie Album Liner Notes, ca. 1946-1970 

Guthrie Program Notes, 1939-1970 

Guthrie Anthology, 1939-1970 

Woody Guthrie Notes, ca. 1940+ 

Guthrie Memos and Statements (About Woody), ca. 1940-1981 

Notes on First Printings of Woody Guthrie Songs, undated  [image]View item(s)

Woody Guthrie Articles, 1937-1956 

Woody Guthrie Articles, 1957-1969 

Woody Guthrie Clippings, 1909-1979 

Woody Guthrie Newsletter, 1960-1968 

Box 4 Guthrie JAF Article Draft, 1970 

Reuss Prospecti for Guthrie Books, ca. 1976-1979  [image]View item(s)

Draft Essays on Woody Guthrie, ca. 1969-1971  [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Folksong Revival

Box 4 Folksong Revival Artists (A-H), 1938-1970 

Folksong Revival Artists (I-Z), 1942-1982 

Folksong Revival-General Articles, pre 1959 

Folksong Revival-General Articles (Misc. Size), pre 1959 

Folksong Revival-General Articles, 1959-1961 

Folksong Revival-General Articles (Misc. Size), 1959-1961 

Folksong Revival-General Articles, 1962-1963 

Folksong Revival-General Articles (Misc. Size), 1962-1963 

Folksong Revival-General Articles, 1964-1965 

Folksong Revival-General Articles (Misc. Size), 1964-1965 

Folksong Revival-General Articles, 1966-1967 

Folksong Revival-General Articles (Misc. Size), 1966-1967 

Folksong Revival-General Articles, 1968+ 

Folksong Revival-General Articles (Misc. Size), 1968+ 

Critical Reviews on the Folksong Revival, 1944-1969 

Interviews on the Folksong Revival, ca. 1964-1969 

SPOTFR, 1946-1970 

Reuss Folksong Revival Raw Data for Bibliography, 1964+ 

Current Inventory of Folksong Revival Publications, 1969 

Sale of Folksong Revival Publications, 1976 

Box 5 Inventories of Holdings in Folksong Revival Literature, 1965-1969 

Term Papers Related to the Folksong Revival, ca. 1963-1969 

A Bibliography of the Urban Folksong Revival, 1963 

Misc. Liner Notes, 1941-1976 

Reuss Untyped Concert Notes, ca. 1954-1969 

Folk Music Notes, 1953-1969 

Subseries: Folksong and The Leftwing,

Box 5 Labor Song Discography Materials, 1938-1984 

Anthology Materials: Folklorists and the Left, ca. 1946-1949 

Anthology Materials: Radical Antecedents, ca. 1927+ 

Anthology Materials: Southern White Tradition, 1915-1941 

Anthology Materials: Negro Tradition, 1933-1941 

Anthology Materials: R. Serge Denisoff's Book Proposal, 1968 

Anthology Materials: Worker's Chorus Movement, ca. 1933-1940 

Anthology Materials: Music of the People, 1937-1946 

Anthology Materials: Almanac Singers, 1941-1943 

Anthology Materials: People's Songs, 1946-1961 

Anthology Materials: Anti Communism and Folksong, 1942+ 

Anthology Materials: People's Artists, 1951-1956 

Thesis materials: Reuss' List of Thesis related Materials, 1936-1941 

Thesis materials: Folk Culture in the Popular Front, 1930-1949,  1969 

Thesis materials: European Marxism on Folk Culture (Post 1930), 1934-1938 

Thesis materials: Scholars and Pseudo Scholars (General), 1945-1978 

Thesis materials: Radical Contact Points with Folk Culture, 1929-1932,  1957 

Thesis materials: Negro Folklore, 1933-1965 

Thesis materials: Labor and Folksong (1930s), 1934-1969 

Thesis materials: American Music League, 1936-1946,  1962 

Thesis materials: Worker's Music League, 1927-1936,  1970s 

Thesis materials: Almanac Singers, ca. 1940-1965 

Thesis materials: American Writers Congresses, ca. 1930-1940 

Thesis materials: Folklore and the New Deal, 1928-1985 

Thesis materials: Early American Marxism and Music, 1911-1953 

Thesis materials: Early Marxism on Folk (Europe), 1888-1964 

Thesis materials: Topical Songs on Tape (Reuss Collection), undated 

Thesis Materials (Ph.D.), ca. 1971 

Thesis Interviews, 1958-1971 

Thesis General Material, 1933-1976 

Series: General research and activities, 1862-1985 

Box 6 The Almanac Singers, Clippings, 1941-1943,  1965-1970 

Almanac Songbooks, undated 

The Almanac Singers, 1942 

Inter Almanac Correspondence, ca. 1942 

General Almanac Correspondence, 1941-1942 

American Folklore Society: Paper Resumes, ca. 1968-1980 

American Folklore Society: Misc. and Correspondence, 1964-1977 

American Folklore Society: History of the AFS (1940s), 1936-1981 

American Folklore Society: History Committee (Misc.), 1959-1974 

American Folklore Society: The Folklore Historian, ca. 1974 

Anti Communism and Folk Music, ca. 1949-1972 

Moses Asch, Clippings, ca. 1944-1962 

Auvilles, Clippings, 1934-1938 

Joan Baez, Clippings, 1961-1973 

Karen Baldwin Papers, 1966-1972 

Franz Boas, 1936-1953 

B. A. Botkin, 1929-1969 

B. A. Botkin, ca. 1930-1969 

Judy Collins, Clippings, 1964-1976 

Commonwealth College Library,

Recent Federal Government Publications Useful for Workers Classes, 1939 

Commonwealth College Song Material, 1932-1940 

Richard M. Dorson, 1967-1984 

Richard Dyer Bennet, Clippings, ca. 1941-1962 

Bob Dylan, Clippings, 1961-1971 

Hans Eisler, Clippings, 1935-1964 

Folklife Bill Materials, 1971-1976 

Folklore History Offprints, 1903-1976 

Folklore Papers and Articles Misc. Authors, ca. 1961-1980 

Box 7 Folksay (AYD) Materials, ca. 1945-1948 

Reuss interview with Lawrence Gellert, 1968 

Gellert interview (cont.), 1968 

Mike Gold, 1928-1970 

Archie Green Offprints, 1960-1985 

Arlo Guthrie, Clippings, 1966-1970 

The Hamburg Show, 1862-1975 

Highlander Folk School Data, ca. 1959-1961 

Highlander Folk School Audio Collection Catalog, 1964 

Highlander Folk School Song Books, ca. 1939,  1967 

Joe Hill, Clippings, 1934-1971 

Illinois Labor History Society, undated 

Burl Ives, Clippings, 1942-1969 

Aunt Molly Jackson, 1931-1975 

The Kingston Trio, Clippings, 1959-1969 

Margaret Larkin, 1899-1972 

Leadbelly, Clippings, 1935-1976 

Library of Congress/National Folk Archive, undated 

The Lomaxes, 1934-1979 

Miscellaneous Photographs, undated 

Music Clippings, Unsorted (Bluegrass, Women), ca. 1970-1973 

Musicians, Clippings (Various unsorted clippings, Ochs paper), 1970-1979 

Newport Folk Festival, Clippings, undated 

People's Artists, 1949-1966 

People's Artists, ca. 1953 

Hootenanny (People's Artists Pub.), undated 

People's Songs, ca. 1937-1955 

People's Songs Newsletter, ca. 1947-1948 

People's Songs, Inc., Clippings, ca. 1940-1956 

People's Songs Library Materials: Historical, 1946-1949 

People's Songs Library Materials: Almanac Singers, ca. 1941-1943 

People's Songs Library Materials: Songs by Lee Hays, ca. 1939-1950 

People's Songs Library Materials: Noted Songwriters, ca. 1929-1962 

People's Songs Library Materials: People's Songs Broadsides, ca. 1945-1948 

People's Songs Library Materials: Folksongs, 1940-1949 

People's Songs Library Materials: Hootenannies, 1949 

People's Songs Library Materials: Hootenannies, 1950 

People's Songs Library Materials: Hootenannies, 1951 

People's Songs Library Materials: Hootenannies, 1952 

People's Songs Library Materials: Hootenanny Materials, 1940-1962 

Box 8 People's Songs Library Materials: Labor Song, 1888,  1933-1947 

People's Songs Library Materials: Period Songs, ca. 1929-1965 

People's Songs Library Materials: Topical Song, A-D, ca. 1935-1959 

People's Songs Library Materials: Topical Song, E-I, ca. 1946-1953 

People's Songs Library Materials: Topical Song, J-O, ca. 1939-1949 

People's Songs Library Materials: Topical Song, P-Z, ca. 1946-1959 

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Clippings, 1963-1969 

Politics (clippings, flyers), 1939-1968 

Popular Culture Notes, ca. 1973-1976 

Progressive Party Records (Disks), 1948 

Reuss Folklore Talks, ca. 1971 

Interview of Reuss, 1985 

Reuss Special Projects (Reviews, Talks), ca. 1964+ 

Malvina Reynolds, Clippings, 1963-1974 

Malvina Reynolds The Soul Book, 1967 

Earl Robinson, Clippings, 1937-1956 

Jimmie Rodgers, Clippings, 1932-1963 

Charles Seeger, 1933-1978 

Charles Seeger, WPA Federal Music Project, 1938-1939 

Charles Seeger, Music Manual for the Resettlement Administration, 1936-1939 

Pete Seeger, ca. 1954-1977 

Friends of Pete Seeger, 1955-1962 

Peter Seeger Report From the Marianas, 1945  [image]View item(s)

Pete Seeger, Notes, 1946-1981 

Pete Seeger, Clippings, 1955-1985 

Elie Siegmeister, 1933-1944 

Elie Siegmeister, Music and Society, 1938 

Irwin Silber, 1943-1968 

Box 9 Irwin Silber and Barbara Dane (interview), 1968 

Sing In For Peace Hoot, 1965 

Sing Out! Correspondence and Songs Index, 1958-1968 

Latter Day Sing Out! Policy Papers, 1965-1969 

The Smothers Brothers, Clippings, 1963-1969 

Urban Studies, 1960-1969 

War Songs (World War II), ca. 1942-1945 

The Weavers, Clippings, 1949-1983 

The Weavers, Notes, ca. 1960+ 

Josh White, Clippings, 1943-1969 

Tom Wickman Materials (Teaching), ca. 1967+ 

Interview with Tom Wickman ("Elmer" Study), 1976 

Ella May Wiggins, Clippings, 1929-1938 

Aralynn Yagian's Collection Project of the Armenian Massacres, 1915+,  1970 

Israel G. Young, 1961-1967 

Israel Young Robert Shelton Folk Rock Feud, 1966 

Israel Young's Folklore Center (NY), Columbia U. Student Study, 1968 

Israel Young: Folklore Center (NY) Materials, ca. 1958-1968 

Israel Young: Notebook, 1968 

Israel Young: Correspondence, 1958-1969 

Israel Young: The Bronx: 1928-1938,  a photo book, 1969 

*Israel Young: Diary (See Oversized), 1960-1962 

Series: Collected publications, 1907-1993 

Subseries: Publication by Title,

Box 9 Agora, 1965 

American Dialog, 1967 

American Folk Music, 1965 

American Folklore Society Newsletter, 1972-1985 

American Old Time Fiddlers' News, ca. 1965-1968 

Anarchy, 1965 

Appeal to Reason, 1965-1966 

The Ark, ca. 1969-1981 

Ballads and Bull, 1964 

Ballads and Songs, ca. 1965 

Berkshire Broadside, 1965-1966 

The Blue Sky Boys Song Sheet, undated 

Broadside, 1965-1984 

Broadside (Los Angeles), ca. 1962 

Broadside of New Britain, Conn., 1965 

Buckaroo, 1966-1967 

*Bushwacker Broadside (and The Bulletin) (See oversized materials), ca. 1955+ 

Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, 1968 

Clanfolk, 1969-1970 

Come to Sing, 1976 

Comment, 1964-1965 

Country and Western Fanfare, 1963 

Country and Western Hit Parade, 1971 

Country and Western Scrapbook, 1965-1968 

County Sales, 1966-1969 

Box 10 A Critic Looks at Jazz, 1946 

Cum All Yo Cutlin' Heroes, 1967 

Current Anthropology, 1965-1969 

Dancin' Round, ca. 1941-1945 

The Detroit General Folk News, 1965 

Ding Dong Dollar, undated 

Disc Collector Newsletter, 1966-1970 

The Discographer, 1971 

Dorset Book of Folk Songs, 1966 

Ear, 1968 

Et Tu, 1964-1965 

Festival of American Folk Life, 1970-1971 

Festival of Fools '68, 1968 

Field and Furrow, 1968 

The Folk Almanac (for 1965), 1964 

Folk at the Town Hall, undated 

The Folk Bag, 1967 

Folk Directory, 1965-1971 

Folk Festival: Central High Program, 1965 

Folk Folio, 1964 

Folk Forum, 1969-1971 

Folk Happenings, undated 

The Folk Letter, 1971 

Folk Music / Ballads and Songs, ca. 1966-1967 

Folk Music Guide, 1962 

Folk Music News, 1965-1968 

Folk Music Society of Northern New Jersey News, 1970 

Folk Musician and Singer (=The Folklorist), 1958-1960 

The Folk Record, undated 

The Folk Scene, 1964-1965 

Folk Song Festival (Royal Festival Hall), 1969 

Folk Song Today (and more), 1966-1970 

Jackie and Bridie, Folk Song Travels, 1970 

Folk Songs (Bulletin 2 WPA Kentucky), undated 

Folk Songs for the Harmonica, 1965 

Folk Songs from Spin, ca. 1965+ 

The Folk Story (EFDSS), undated 

Folk Trails, 1947 

Folk Unlimited, 1971 

Folklore, 1965-1966 

Folklore and Social Struggle (AFS), 1981 

The Folklore Historian, 1974 

Folklore Newsletter (The Folklore Institute, Bloomington, Indiana), 1976 

Folklore Society Newsletter (University of Michigan), 1964-1976 

The Folknik, 1968-1972 

Folktivities, 1965-1975 

Notes to FOLKWAYS RECORDS Albums, 1950-1964 

Follow the Drinking Gourd, 1963 

Fusion, undated 

Songsheets of THE GOOD NEIGHBOR CHORUS, 1949 

Gumsuckers' Gazette, 1963 

Hank Williams: From Life to Legend, Jerry Rivers, 1967 

Hearings on American Folklife Foundation Act, 91st Congress, 1970 

Heritage Broadsheet, undated 

Historical Society of Michigan (Chronicle and Michigan Historical Collections), 1971-1973 

The Hoadl'y Songbook (Bloomington, Indiana), undated 

The Ian Campbell Songbooks, 1965-1967 

If I Were Free (also photographs), 1967 

International Musician, 1964-1966 

Isis, 1966 

Jazz in Music Education, 1956 

Jazz Music Books, Jazz Music: A Tribute to Huddie Ledbetter, 1946 

Joan Baez Program Folders (England), undated 

JEMF (John Edwards Memorial Foundation) Newsletters, ca. 1972 

JEMF Reprint Articles, 1964-1971 

Journal of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, 1969-1971 

Box 11 A Jubilee History (English Folk Dance and Song Society, Helen and Douglas Kennedy, 1961 

*Judy Collins (See oversized materials), 1968 

The Kept Press, 1968 

Lee Hays Newsletter, 1964-1966 

The Little Black Songbook, 1960 

Living Blues, 1970 

*Look Magazine (See oversized materials), 1971 

Manchester Folk Directory, 1968 

Manchester Folk Festival, ca. 1966 

Mariposa Folk Festival Programs, 1963-1972 

The McGonagall Year Book, 1963 

Mountain Life and Work, 1965-1968 

Muleskinner News, 1971 

National Folk Festival News, 1967-1971 

National Folk Festival Programs, 1961-1972 

National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and Folk Music Festival (Weiser, Idaho), 1964 

*Negro, ed. Nancy Cunard (See oversized materials), 1934 

Neighborhood Folk Chorus (St. Louis) Songsheets, ca. 1950 

New City Songster, 1969-1970 

Newport Folk Festival Programs, 1959-1963 

Sydney Carter, 9 Carols or Ballads and 10 New Songs, 1964-1965 

Official Booklet of the British Country Music Association, 1968 

Old Record Shop, 1962 

Operation: Campus Awakening, 1967 

Opry, ca. 1968 

Patriot Songs, undated 

Pennsylvania Folk Festival, 1937 

*Peter, Paul, and Mary (See oversized materials), 1964 

Philadelphia Folk Festival Programs, 1962-1967 

Pick'n' Sing'n' Gather'n' Newsletter, 1967-1969 

Pinewoods Folk Music Club Newsletter, 1965-1971 

The Pointer, 1965 

Progressive Party Songsheets, 1948-1952 

The Ragtimer, 1966-1967 

Rambler, 1965 

The Rebels Ceilidh Song Book, ca. 1951,  1965 

Record Dating Chart, Part 1, 1948 

Record Research Bulletin, ca. 1960,  1971 

Recorded Sound, 1960-1966 

Recorder Guild News, 1962-1965 

Review Express, undated 

The Rounder Review, ca. 1971-1972 

Royal Albert Hall Folk Festival Programs, 1950-1971 

The RSG Song Book, 1963 

Scholastic Scope, 1965 

Seattle Folklore Society Newsletter, undated 

The Second Fret Gazette, undated 

S.E.M. Newsletter (Society for Ethnomusicology U. of Wisconsin), 1968 

The Shuttle and Cage, 1965 

Sing Club Directory, 1961 

Sing on Brother, 1965 

Singalong, 1957-1958 

Singing Tomorrows, 1949 

Songmakers' Almanac, 1962-1965 

Songs, undated 

Songs about Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss, 1993 

Songs for the Sixties, 1961 

The Sounding Board, 1965-1967 

*Space, ed. B.A. Botkin (See oversized materials), 1934 

*Spain Marches (See oversized materials), 1937 

The Spinners Song Book, ca. 1964 

Staff, undated 

Stanley Brothers Special Year Book: Stanley Standard (includes photo), ca. 1966 

Stray Notes from the Atlanta Folk Music Society, 1965-1966 

Studies in the Mass Media, 1964 

Talking Folklore Center (Bob Dylan), 1962 

Talking of Music, H. G. Sear, 1944 

Tradition, 1966-1967 

Unison, 1938 

Vincennes University Folk Festival, 1967 

Welsh Folk Songs, J. Lloyd Williams and L.D. Jones, undated 

West Virginia Folklore, 1958-1962 

Western Songs, 1965 

Who is Folk Music?, undated 

Wobbly, 1963 

Words of Folk Songs, 1951+ 

Workers Music Association Songbooks, 1950-1953 

Workers Music League Bulletin, 1935 

The Worker Musician, 1932 

WSM Grand Ole Opry Book, 1966 

Subseries: Publication by Subject,

Box 12 Australian Songbooks, 1955-1962 

British Topical Songs, 1954-1965 

College Songs–Warren Devine Ms. Collection, U. of Michigan, 1969 

English Songs, 1950-1969 

Misc. Folklore Societies Publications, 1943-1974 

Folk Music Song Sheets and Words, 1907-1969 

Illustrations (Misc. publications), 1932-1974 

Labor Songbooks: AFL CIO Songbooks, ca. 1937-1962 

Labor Songbooks: The Bosses' Songbook (and others), ca. 1937-1985 

Labor Songbooks: Brookwood School, ca. 1936 

Labor Songbooks: Communist Songbooks, ca. 1933-1939 

Labor Songbooks: I.W.W. Songbooks, 1956-1964 

Labor Songbooks: Malvina Reynolds, 1954-1967 

Labor Songbooks: Misc. Labor Schools, undated 

Labor Songbooks: Misc. Labor Songbooks, ca. 1944 

Labor Songbooks: Misc. Left Wing, 1936-1957 

Labor Songbooks: Socialist Songbooks, ca. 1906-1946 

Labor Songbooks: Misc. Topical, 1956-1967 

Labor Songbooks: People's Songs Publications, 1947 

Labor Songbooks: Youth Movement, ca. 1952 

Songs, 1939-1960 

Topical Songs (Sheet Music), 1939-1948 

World War II Songbooks, ca. 1942 

Misc. Newsletters, Songbooks, Proceedings (Unsorted), undated 

Series: *Oversize Materials

Box 12 *Bushwacker Broadside (and The Bulletin), ca. 1955+ 

*Fan Books (Peter, Paul, and Mary; Judy Collins), 1964;  1968 

*Israel Young: Diary, 1960-1962 

*Look Magazine, 1971 

*Three Publications (Negro, ed. Nancy Cunard; Space, ed. B.A. Botkin; Spain Marches), 1934;  1937 

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