COLLECTION
Norman Cazden Collection
Identifier
MF 008 (local)
Date
1960 - 1980 (Date created)
Summary
Norman Cazden was a composer, musicologist, and faculty member of the University of Maine who had a longstanding interest in traditional American folk music. This collection reflects his career as both collector and composer. See also Norman Cazden Papers in Folger Library Special Collections which also include tape recordings of Cazden’s own compositions and teaching tapes. For materials relating to Cazden’s work collecting folksongs in the Catskill Mountain region, see MF 112 Norman Studer/Camp Woodland Papers. The Norman Cazden Collection includes songs collected from George Edwards in the Catskills; square dance tunes; dubbings of Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indian songs; collection of tunes sung at the Ninth Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival, August 15 – 17, 1966; recording of Catskill Folk Festival held at Andes, New York in 1977, 1978, and 1979; folk songs and ballads compiled by Edith Fowke, an eminent Canadian collector, from her own collection; unpublished(?) Woody Guthrie recordings from a private collection; Adirondack woods songs compiled by folklorist Bob Bethke in conjunction with Bethke’s book on Ted Ashlaw, a singer; Scottish bagpipe music; Negro convict songs collected by Bruce Jackson; Native American songs from the David McAllester Collection at Wesleyan University; and an interview with Edward D. “Sandy” Ives about Norman Cazden’s life and teaching at University of Maine, also circumstances of the symphony recital of July, 1980.
Language
Dialects)
Other Subject Headings
Cazden’s own compositions and teaching tapes (Local)
