Frederic G. Cassidy papers and sound recordings concerning Jamaican language, 1951-1991
name: label: Creator
content: Cassidy, Frederic Gomes, 1907-
place: label: Place
content: Jamaica
label: Place
content: Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Creole dialects
label: Topic
content: Pidgin languages
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Claire M. Cassidy and Michael Cassidy in 2008.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cassidy, Frederic Gomes, 1907-
culture: label: Culture
content: Rastafari
label: Culture
content: Gullah
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content: Frederic G. Cassidy papers and sound recordings concerning Jamaican language, 1951-1991
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Frederic G. Cassidy papers contain sound recordings and partial transcriptions; drafts of manuscripts and conference papers; and one map, all relating to his work on Jamaican and Creole languages.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frederic Gomes Cassidy (1907-2000) was a Jamaican-born lexicographer who is best known as a long time editor and director of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,  where he was a professor of English.  In 1951 Cassidy received a Fullbright Research Fellowship to go back to Jamaica to interview people about their daily lives.  These recordings became the source for Jamaica Talk (1961) and the Dictionary of Jamaican English (1967) which he co-authored with R.B.LePage.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot
label: Extent
content: 15 Sound tape reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951 -1991
label: Date
content: bulk 1951-1952
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2008-22
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed and encoded by Daisy Njoku 2017.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Of primary interest in the Frederic G. Cassidy papers are his 1952 sound recordings of everyday Jamaican people.  The recordings are itemized and described according to a typed inventory found among the papers.  There are partial handwritten notes and transcriptions of some of the recordngs as well as a map of Jamaica which Cassidy used in his field work. The papers also contain drafts of articles and conference papers on Jamiacan and Creole languages. It is not clear which, if any, of these drafts were published.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Digital surrogates of the sound recordings are also held by the Dictionary of American Regional English at the University of Wisconsin and at the University of the West Indies Archives in Kingston, Jamaica.