Anne and Frank Warner collection
By: collected by Anne and Frank Warner
Contributors: Proffitt, Frank, performer; Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, performer; Solomon, Louis, 1879- performer
Published: 1938
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: British Americans; English Ballads; Irish Americans; Ethnomusicological collections; Fiddle tunes; Music; Children's songs, English; Folk music; Singing games; English Hymns; Popular music; St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York; West Indian Americans; Field recordings; Scots Irish; English Folk songs; African Americans; Mohawk Indians
Description: Field recordings and photographs made by Anne and Frank Warner documenting folk music and storytelling during trips to Illinois (1941), Massachusetts (1941), New Hampshire (1940-41), New York (1939-41, 1946, 1949-52, 1961, 1969), North Carolina (1938-41, 1944, 1951, 1959), Missouri (1941), Vermont (1940), Virginia (1940), and to some unspecified locations in the Midwest. The songs were collected from descendents of English and Scots-Irish immigrants and from African Americans, some of West Indian descent. Includes songs and stories of Frank Proffitt, Sr. and the extended Hicks family of Beech Mountain, North Carolina.  Mohawk songs, chants, war cries, courting, and hunting songs were recorded from Louis Solomon at Hogansburg, St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, New York in 1940-41. Also included are a few interviews with performers, storytelling sessions, and recordings of lectures and readings performed by poet Carl Sandburg in 1950, 1951, and 1953.  Fifteen black and white photographic prints taken by Frank Warner from 1938-1941 include photographs of Anne Warner making field recordings of performers in North Carolina; and photographs of Frank Proffitt, Sr., the C. K. Tillett family, John Culpeper, Roby Monroe Hicks, Buna Vista Hicks, Rebecca King Jones, Lena Bourne Fish, Mohawk Indians on the St. Regis Reservation, John Galusha, Joseph Henry Johnson, Bill Moss, and Jesse McDonald.
Notes: Due to their limited budget for equipment and supplies, the Warners sometimes recorded only a portion of a song; the remainder was transcribed by Anne Warner.

Sound recordings numbered: AFS 15261-15384; AFS 10055-10057; AFS 15385-15400; AFS 15564-15565; AFS 17769; preservation tape reels: LWO 1490 reels 1-3; LWO 7096 reels 1-16; LWO 7273 reels 1-2; LWO 8617; reference copies: AFS 10055-10057; AFS 15365-15368.

Anne and Frank Warner Collection (AFC 1950/002), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

Anne and Frank Warner; Donation; 1950, 1972.

Anne and Frank Warner Papers, 1920-2000, are in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Most recordings are in English; some sessions include Mohawk language performances.

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