Richard A. Reuss papers, 1888-1993, bulk 1927-1973
A Guide to his papers at the Indiana University Archives
Electronic finding aid encoded by Amanda Harlan
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.
TitleRichard 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."
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
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Names
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Indiana
University, Bloomington --Faculty --Archives.
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Indiana
University, Bloomington --Faculty --Correspondence.
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Reuss,
Richard A. --Archives.
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Reuss,
Richard A. --Correspondence.
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Green,
Archie --Correspondence.
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Denisoff,
R. Serge --Corresondence.
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McCulloh,
Judith, 1935- --Correspondence.
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Guthrie,
Woody, 1912-1967.
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Green, Archie.
Correspondence. Selections.
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Denisoff, R. Serge.
Correspondence. Selections.
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McCulloh, Judith, 1935-
--Correspondence. Selections.
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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.
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[Item], Richard A. Reuss papers, Collection C6, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Processing InformationProcessed 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
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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
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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
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