Mary Celestia Parler Field Recordings: Arkansas: Arkansas
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-5RR-4444

FLP.90324
label: General
content: CDR copy

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).
name: label: Artist
content: Davis, Mary Jo
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
place: label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: Fayetteville (Ark.)
label: Place
content: Arkansas
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs -- United States
label: Topic
content: Folk songs -- Arkansas
creator: label: Artist
content: Davis, Mary Jo
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: Anglo-American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / CDR copy
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 5 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-5RR-4444
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: Father, father go build me a boat--The jew's garden--Our goodman (Something new for me)--The Arkansas boys;