Comments on: Vintage Musical Americana featuring The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Vintage Musical Americana featuring The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

y2karl — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:49:39 -0800

Here is Naomia Wise from The Max Hunter Folksong Collection. Folk songs, more or less, sung by real folks, collected in Arkansas by Max Hunter between 1956 and 1976. On a related tip, here is Historic Music--recorded popular music from the 1920s, with a large selection devoted to music from the First World War. And here, from Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930's, are the Popular Music Jukebox 1930-1934 and the Popular Music Jukebox 1935-1939 to complete this day's vintage musical Americana experience.
The Max Hunter songs are in RealAudio. Realplayer haters can use Real Alternative aka Media Player Classic.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:10:56 -0800

Good post. Really digging the Historic Music link.

By: ethel

ethel — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:40:06 -0800

wow, amazing stuff. just fyi, the link I clicked to access the Max Hunter songs had the file in AIFF also. thanks so much for posting this!!!

By: j.henry

j.henry — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:07:35 -0800

fantastic post! -- amazing how quick & in so many places these sounds are being digitized! esp digging the Historic Music link -- my dTa! in overdrive snatching up the hundreds. for other obsessives & archive stuffers : : you can sneak around the (wonderfully informative tho downloading unfriendly) 30s jukeboxes to the less-than-intuitively named parent .mov directories, here & here.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:31:32 -0800

Awesome post. Great first link! Those Arkansas good old boys can't spell my name for shit, though.

By: pywacket

pywacket — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:25:14 -0800

absolutely wonderful, thank you so much for that.

By: einer

einer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:41:02 -0800

Dear y2Karl, you are DESTROYING productivity in our office. Thank you. einer

By: Bureau of Public Secrets

Bureau of Public Secrets — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:21:36 -0800

Actually, the songs were collected in the Ozarks, which includes southern Missouri as well as northern Arkansas. The most interesting books on the region's music and culture are by Vance Randolph. For example: Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales.

By: Coyote at the Dog Show

Coyote at the Dog Show — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:34:02 -0800

Great post. As a historian who grew up and still lives in the Missouri Ozarks, I'm glad to see this collection featured on MeFi. As Bureau points out, Hunter collected in the Ozarks region, covering both Arkansas and Missouri. He was urged to do so by Vance Randolph, one of my favorite folklorists, and became important in his own right. Their relationship is recounted in a special issue of the Missouri Folklore Society Journal from 1982 should anyone want to know more.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:44:43 -0800

As Bureau points out, Hunter collected in the Ozarks region, covering both Arkansas and Missouri. Yes, it was my error. I was unable to make a comment acknowledging so while I was at work and just now got home.