Papers of Albert Lancaster Lloyd, 1953-[1982], comprising materials relating to traditional folk music from around the world, especially Eastern Europe, notably newspaper cuttings, photographs, typescript notes, drafts of articles, diaries, notebooks, broadcast scripts and texts of lectures on subjects including:
English folk music, including erotic songs, ballads, carols, London songs, Morris dancers, North-East songs and poetry.
Romanian folk music, [1955-1973], including notes on subjects including costume, customs, instruments, proverbs, social life and topography, as well as a large number of photographs depicting native song and dance.
Hungarian folk music, [1946-1970s], including notes on subjects such as art, custom, dance, history and instruments.
Bulgarian folk music, [1954-1960s], including papers, correspondence and photographs on costume, dance, recorded music, and topography.
American folk music, [1949-1967], including materials on cowboys, blues and jazz, spirituals, work songs and vagrants.
Industrial song, [1950s-1970s], including miners, textile workers, political songs, and American work songs.
The collection also includes material on Chinese and Australian traditional music.
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Scope note(s)
- Music distinctive of a certain region or ethnic group.
- Musique particulière à une certaine région ou à un groupe ethnique.
- Música distintiva de una determinada región o grupo étnico.
Source note(s)
- http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept10982
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Hierarchical terms
Traditional music
Traditional music
Equivalent terms
Traditional music
- UF Folk music
- UF Musique folklorique
- UF Música folklórica