Sam Eskin collection
By: collected by Sam Eskin
Published: 1939
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16568
Subjects: Loggers; History and criticism; English Ballads; Bawdy songs; Written works; Songs and music; Mariachi; Cowboys; Wedding music; Spirituals (Songs); Folk singers; Music; Miners; Folk music; Folk songs; Limericks; Work songs; Correspondence; Jews; Flamenco music; Folk festivals; Ethnomusicological collections; Children's songs, English; Love songs; Texts; English Folk songs; Calypso (Music); Sea songs; American Bawdy poetry; African Americans
Description: Collection consists of manuscripts, field recordings, photographs, and ephemera documenting folk music and folk music revivals in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from 1938 to 1966; plus manuscripts and field recordings of mostly unidentified artists performing folk music in Jamaica, Cuba, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Hong Kong, Philippines, India, and Thailand from 1953 to 1969 collected by Sam Eskin. Manuscript materials include correspondence, transcriptions of songs and lyrics, folk festival programs and flyers, a Japanese song book, Eskin's lecture notes, and his collection of bawdy songs and limericks.
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Sam Eskin Collection (AFC 1999/004), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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

New York State Historical Association ; Transfer; 1999.

Sam Eskin was born in Washington, D.C., July 5, 1898; self-educated folklorist and folk music collector, d. 1974.

in English.

in English, Spanish, and multiple other languages.

Finding aid is available in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress, and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.

Sam Eskin donated his field recordings and commercial recordings to the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Cooperstown, N.Y.; his papers were donated to Cooperstown by his family in 1979.