Biographies of Informants and some Collectors E-F
Biographies of Informants, Performers and some Collectors (Traditional Ballads and Folk Songs)
North America (Arranged in Alphabetical order by last name)
[This section is for biographies of the important informants of Anglo-Saxon ballads and folk songs and is not all inclusive. Every collector had their best informants. Some informants by their reputations were visited by many collectors, and recordings were made in some instances. Some informants were recording artists in the 1920s and their songs were collected indirectly by the record companies.
The focus of this study is North America. At some point The British Isles will be included on a separate page.
There is little known about some collectors, for example, Fred High (MO-AR), John Stone (VA, under the auspices of the Virginia Folklore Society), Winston Wilkinson (VA, under the auspices of the Virginia Folklore Society).
R. Matteson 2015]
Informants and Some Collectors- North America
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Edwards, George J. (England-VT) Flanders; Barry
Edwards, George (NY) Cazden
Farnham, George (VT) Flanders
Fauntleroy, Juliet (VA) collector for Davis (1929).
Fish, Edith (NC) collector associated with Sharp; Perrow, E.N. Caldwell
Fish, Lena Bourne (NH) Flanders; Warner
Foss, George (VA)
Fowke, (ON) collector
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An Index to the Field Recordings in the Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont
Flanders' contact with the Federation of Women's Clubs helped her to expand her collecting region, which before 1940 had been almost exclusively within the state of Vermont. In early 1940, Mrs. Schrader, a leader in that organization, contacted her about a singer from E. Jaffrey, New Hampshire naned Lena Bourne Fish. Other collectors in that region may have already known about Mrs. Fish but upon Mrs. Schrader's recommendation, Flanders went to Mrs. Fish's home to record her songs in the Spring of 1940. Between June and September Olney returned to Mrs. Fish several times to record additional songs. In that one year she contributed more than 80 songs to the Collection. Many of these songs were later "retaken" (re-recorded) by Olney in 1943 and 1945.
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Edith B. Fish from Allanstand, teacher in Laurel area (Smith, Jane Gentry bk) had sister named Helen Fish. wrote article "Making Little Women" The Assembly Herald, Volume 15, 1909. (b. 1865-1875) ? worked with Frances L. Goodrich