Manuscript/Mixed Material Foreman Monroe [textual and melodic transcriptions with notes].

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About this Item

Title

  • Foreman Monroe [textual and melodic transcriptions with notes].

Other Title

  • The Jam on Gerry's rock
  • Young Monroe
  • Come all you brave young shanty boys, a tale to you I'll relate

Names

  • Asmussen, Ella, transcriber.
  • Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995, transcriber.
  • Ford, Pat, performer.
  • Ford, Warde H., performer.

Created / Published

  • [1938]

Headings

  • -  Ballads, English--Scores
  • -  Ballads, English--Texts
  • -  Loggers--Songs and music--Scores
  • -  Loggers--Songs and music--Texts
  • -  Music--Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Three textual and two melodic song transcriptions with sixteen pages of handwritten notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell about "Foreman Monroe" and "Young Monroe."
  • -  In English.

Medium

  • 21 p.

Source Collection

  • Forms part of: W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017701090

Online Format

  • online text
  • image
  • pdf

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

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The sound recordings were collected by a field researcher employed by the U.S. Government under the auspices of the WPA from 1938 to 1940 (Works Progress Administration Official Project Number 665-08-3-30, Unit A25). Transcriptions of the sound recordings were prepared by U.S. Government employees. Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. Note, however, that the persons interviewed or whose words were transcribed were not employees of the U.S. Government. Privacy and publicity rights may apply. While the Library is not aware of any copyright in the materials in this collection, users should be aware of possible rights particularly in the underlying works in the sound recordings.

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Credit Line

W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection (AFC 1940/001), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Asmussen, Ellacriber, and Sidney Robertson Cowell, translator. Foreman Monroe textual and melodic transcriptions with notes. performeds by Ford, Pat, and Ford, Warde H [1938] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017701090/.

APA citation style:

Asmussen, E. & Cowell, S. R., translator. (1938) Foreman Monroe textual and melodic transcriptions with notes. Ford, P. & Ford, W. H., performers [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017701090/.

MLA citation style:

transs by Asmussen, Ellacriber, and Sidney Robertson Cowell. Foreman Monroe textual and melodic transcriptions with notes. performer by Ford, Pat, and Ford, Warde H [1938] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017701090/>.