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California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html

Description:
"A multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California," collected by the WPA California Folk Music Project from 1938 through 1940. Includes profile of Project director Sidney Robertson Cowell. Searchable by keyword; browsable by performer, musical instrument, and audio title. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Publisher:
Library of Congress

Dublin Core Material Type:
Text, Image, Sound

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Field recordings
Folk music
Folk music -- California, Northern
Folk songs -- California, Northern

LII Database Information:
Record 6078 created by Dana Lubow on 03/24/2001
Last modification on 03/23/2005
Published: 03/24/2001  
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6078