Robert Winslow Gordon (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4to, stapled bound lettered wrappers, 114pp printed on one side only, errata slip laid-in, SIDNEY ROBERTSON, the noted song catcher's copy, with her signature once in pencil and once in pen. Franklin was a noted song-catcher and the future wife of Henry Cowell.The book reprints a series of articles on Folk-Songs that originally appeared in the NYTIMES in the 1920's A GOOD COPY ONLY TORN AT SPINE AND RATHER EDGE WORN ETC.(VV2/0).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Robert Winslow Gordon (September 2, 1888 March 26, 1961). Title: Folk Songs Of America Published by National Service Bureau Federal Theatre Project Works Progress Administration Year: 1938 Paper Wrappers Description: Articles originally published in the New York Times Sunday magazine. Mimeographed pages and stapled from collected published works 1927-1928 The New York Times. 110 pages All the articles have been reprinted here by the Robert Gordon. Please see the opening page for the editorial note by Robert Gordon. Size: 8 ¾ x 11 ¼ inches Condition: The front and back paper end boards are chipped but are original. The edges are worn and have a small water stain on the front cover. Please see images for details "Gordon accepted and used the Adventure column to collect information on traditional American music from the magazine's readers. He was the founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song (later the Archive of Folk Culture, which became part of the American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress in 1928. He was a pioneer in using mechanical means to document folk musicians, originally using Edison cylinder recordings. He is known among folk singers as the originator of the infamous Gordon "Inferno" Collection of American songs" If you have any questions or if you need additional images, please feel free to contact me.

First Edition. First Edition. The Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project sponsored and published a series of monographs throughout the late 1930s, this volume being a compilation of articles on folk songs and spirituals throughout the US published in the New York Times by Robert Winslow Gordon. Gordon founded the Archive of American Folk Song (later renamed the Archive of Folk Culture) at the Library of Congress in 1928, and was a pioneer in the use of Edison cylinder recordings to document folk music. Very Good in wrappers, with light soil, toning, and wear to the extremities.