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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection



                                 The American Folklife Center
at the Library of Congress
Presents
FIDDLE TUNES OF THE OLD FRONTIER: THE HENRY REED COLLECTION


The American Folklife Center's Henry Reed Collection is now
available online through the Library of Congress American Memory Web
site at the following URL:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/.

This unique American music collection, released on the 116th
anniversary of his birth in Peterstown, West Virginia, features
traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed. Recorded in Glen
Lyn, Virginia, by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was
over eighty years old, these tunes represent the music and evoke the
history and spirit of the Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes
presented in this collection have enjoyed new popularity during the
fiddling revival of the later twentieth century, and are performed
today by a new generation of musicians.

The online presentation includes 184 sound recordings, available in
WaveForm, MP3, and RealAudio formats; Jabbour's fieldnotes; and
sixty-nine musical transcriptions. New descriptive notes on tune
histories and musical features accompany the sound recordings, and an
extensive listing of related publications and a glossary of musical
terms provide further avenues for exploration.

An essay by Alan Jabbour (with photographs by Carl Fleischhauer,
Karen Singer Jabbour, and Kit Olson) discussing Reed's life, art, and
influence accompanies the collection as a special presentation.

Other folklife-related online collections, selected publications of
the American Folklife Center, and information about products and
services are available from the Center's home page:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife..

American Memory is a project of the National Digital Library Program
of the Library of Congress, which, in collaboration with other
institutions, is bringing important American historical materials to
citizens around the world. Through American Memory, over seventy
multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded
sound, motion pictures, and text are now available online, free to the
public for educational purposes. This collection is the eighth
collection from the American Folklife Center to be added on the
American Memory Web site. All American Memory collections can be
accessed through:

http://memory.loc.gov.

Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov.

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