Mary Celestia Parler Field Recordings: Arkansas: Arkansas [sound recording]
name: label: artist
content: Davis, Mary Jo
notes: label: Notes
content: CDR copy
label: Notes
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-4443 and -4444 are recordings of Mary Jo Davis of Fayetteville, Arkansas, singing traditional folk songs unaccompanied. The recordings were produced by Mary Celestia Parler. In a "memo"in tape box of -4444, she says current tape is a "fresh recording" to replace an older one. Tape box of -4444 has date of 3/14/55, but that may be date of copy, not original. M. Parler was a professor of English and folklore at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Both she and her "field assistants" recorded local singers. In her book, "An Arkansas Ballet Book," first published in 1963, four songs of Ms. Davis are included, two recorded by Ms. Parler and two by one of her field assistants, Merlin Mitchell. The book includes "Black-Jack Davy," of Ms. Davis, as recorded by M. Mitchell on 6/16/1950. Only one of Ms. Davis'es songs is on a Folkways recording: Black-Jack Davy, on Folk Music U.S.A. (FW04530).
label: Table of contents
content: Father, father go build me a boat--The jew's garden--Our goodman (Something new for me)--The Arkansas boys;
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: Arkansas
label: Place
content: Fayetteville (Ark.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: Anglo-American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-5RR-4444
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 sound-tape reel : analog ; 5 in