Visual Materials
R.E. Fife
- Description
- R.E. Fife
- Date
- undated
- Call number
- photCL SCE 05 - 51182
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Supplemental catalog of Mormon folk songs recorded by Austin E. Fife and Alta S. Fife in St. George, Washington, Orderville, and Kanab, Utah, from March-April 1947. The catalog contains a brief description and local information for each song recorded in the following categories : 1) prose accounts of Mormon folk songs and folk singing; 2) songs of specific Mormon regional setting or inspiration; 3) songs of the Mormon migration; 4) songs of Mormon theological or sociological inspiration; 5) local songs, including those of Utah's dixie; 6) songs by Utah folk composers; 7) songs of general American folk interest, including ballad and narrative types, cowboy songs and ballads, and Indian themes and Western locale; 8) miscellaneous American folk songs; 9) American folk songs, war theme; 10) Germanic folk songs collected in Utah; 11) prose accounts of Mormon folklore; and 12) Mormon folk poetry. Supplement #1 for the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song.
mssHM 72351
