The Indiana University Folklore Archive Song Index

Abstract

Over the past twenty years, more than 2,000 undergraduate students at Michigan State and Indiana Universities have taken courses in "American Folklore," "Introduction to Folklore," and "Ballads and Folk Poetry" from folklorists Richard M. Dorson, Jerome Mintz, W. Edson Richmond, and Warren E. Roberts. Required to submit collections of folklore materials, these students have gathered over 60,000 items of folklore from their families, friends, and communities. Their typed and hand-written manuscripts now constitute the Indiana University (IU) Division and the Michigan State University (MSU) Division of the Indiana University Folklore Archive. A major portion of these collections contains folksongs in the English language