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| Bessie Gordon (b.1901) at the cut-down reed organ under a tavern counter. |
Bibliography and other folksong resources
"Collecting Folk Songs." New York Sun, 28 December 1940.
"'Detectives' Trail Notes in State's History." Wisconsin State Journal, 8 November 1940.
[Includes photo of informant Alonzo Jacka]
"Dodgeville Native Compiles Library of Old Cornish Carols." Grant Co. Herald, 8 January(?) 1947.
Doudna, William L. "Wandering U.W. Recorders Saves Dying Folk Music." Wisconsin State Journal, 13 July 1941 .
[Includes photo of Stratman-Thomas and singer Hamilton Lobdell]
Folk Music from Wisconsin compact disc. Cambridge, Mass.: Rounder Select, p2001.
"Fading Folk Songs of Wisconsin Trapped on Discs; Crew of U.W. Roams State ; Finds Earthy Ballads of Old Lands and Preserves Them on Wax." Milwaukee Journal, 20 October 1940 .
"Folk songs Captured on Wax by U.W. Pair." Milwaukee Journal, 20 October 1940 .
Leary, James. The Wisconsin Patchwork: A Companion to the Radio Programs Based on the Field Recordings of Helene Stratman-Thomas. Madison : Department of Continuing Education in the Arts, 1987.
"Lumberjack's Music Saved for Posterity." Milwaukee Sentinel, 31 August 1941 .
[Includes photo of the Leizime Brusoe Orchestra with recording technician Robert Draves.]
Matheson, Helen. "From Descendants, U.W. Group Again Records Folksongs Forgotten Voices Sang." Wisconsin State Journal, 21 October 1946 .
O’Donnell, Brian. “Leizime Brusoe: Wisconsin Northwoods Fiddler.” The Old-Time Herald Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2003.
"Old Cornish Yule Carols to be Sung Again After Silence of Many Decades." Wisconsin State Journal, 15 December 194 ?.
Peters, Harry, ed. Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1977.
Rose, Judy. Wisconsin Patchwork radio program/Wisconsin Public Radio, 1984.
"She Tours State for Old Folksongs, Finds Many Right in Own Office." Wisconsin State Journal, 21 July 1946 .
[Includes photo of Stratman-Thomas and informant Winifred Bundy]
"Songs of a Pioneer Wisconsin Collected and Recorded; University of Wisconsin Aiding Library of Congress." Christian Science Monitor, 1 April 1941 .
"State's Folk Songs Found, Recorded by U.W. Music Teacher." University of Wisconsin Press Bulletin, 28 November 1941 .
Stratman-Thomas, Helene. “The Choral Works of Michael Hayden (1737-1806).” Bulletin of the American Musicological Society , No. 6. (Aug., 1942), p. 16. (Abstracts of Papers Read before Mid-Western Chapter.)
Stratman-Thomas, Helene. "Folk Music in Wisconsin ." Badger Folklore 1 (April 1948): 8-9.
"That Cornish Song Starts an Argument." Wisconsin State Journal, 26 [28?] January 1941.
Treat, Asher. " Kentucky Folksong in Northern Wisconsin." Journal of American Folk-Lore 52 (January-March 1939): 1-51
Cornish recordings in the Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection
Created by Ayako Yoshimura, February-August 2002
Cornish recordings in the Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection
In the 1940s, Helene Stratman-Thomas conducted extensive fieldwork among Cornish Americans in Southwestern Wisconsin . The recorded interviews have been digitally preserved on compact disc. View the inventory.
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| Asher Treat was a collector of Appalachian folk songs transplanted to northern Wisconsin by the "Kaintucks." He was born in Antigo, Wis. in 1907, and the music he gathered can be accessed through the Wisconsin Music Archives at Mills Music Library. |
Repositories
The American Folklife Center’s Archive of Folk Culture
The Archive of Folk Culture, founded at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music, houses multi-format, ethnographic collections that are diverse and international, including over one million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images.
Mills Music Library’s Wisconsin Music Archives
The Wisconsin Music Archives is a special collection housed in the Mills Music Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With holdings from the 1850s to the present, the Archives contains over 35,000 items representing all Wisconsin musical traditions. The folk and ethnic music collections range from ethnic recordings to manuscript collections.
The Wisconsin Historical Society
The Historical Society Archives provides access to collections of unpublished materials about the history of Wisconsin and a wide array of topics related to North American history. Their holdings include photographs of the Wisconsin performers taken by Helene Stratman-Thomas. (Call number PH2907) These collections include letters, diaries, organization records, state and local government records, photographs, films, oral histories and many other kinds of unique materials documenting American history. The Archives provides centralized management for a unique regional network of Area Research Centers based on most of the campuses of the University of Wisconsin System. Collections may be borrowed for use throughout the Network.
Others
This website, hosted by the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at University of Wisconsin–Madison, highlights recordings in and around Rhinelander and Crandon in 1937.
Leary, James P. and Richard March. Down Home Dairyland: A Listener's Guide. Madison: University Press, 2004. CDs and cassettes of the Down Home Dairyland series of programs on Wisconsin Public Radio and a book with essays that expand on the programming.