Program

Research Programs: Scholarly Publications

Period of Performance

3/1/1981 - 8/31/1982

Funding Totals

$5,000.00 (approved)
$5,000.00 (awarded)


Instrumental Folk Tunes in Pennsylvania, by S. Bayard

FAIN: RP-*0787-81

Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA 16802-3801)
John M. Pickering (Project Director: November 1980 to October 1990)

To support publication of annotated transcriptions of Anglo-Celtic-American instrumental folk music collected in southwestern Pa. and northern W. Va. from 1928-1963. The work relates these tunes to others of similar provenance and discusses their cultural context and playing techniques.