Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 Span: 1922-1932 English web presentation The recordings on this site represent one man's ambitious attempt to document the extent and variety of American folksong. During the 1920s and the early 1930s, folklorist Robert Winslow Gordon took his cylinder recorder (and later, his disc machine) to the San Francisco waterfront, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Georgia coast in order to record the diverse singing traditions of the United States. He recorded nearly a thousand cylinders, collected nearly ten thousand more song texts from the readers of his popular articles, and gathered many thousand additional song versions from old camp-meeting and revival songbooks, broadsides, folios, and hillbilly recordings. This site documents almost 30 of these songs. 30 sound recordings American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Recordings of American folk songs collected by Robert Winslow Gordon in the 1920s and early 1930s. Folk Music African American Music Gordon, Robert Winslow Performing Arts Encyclopedia scdb American Folklife Center, Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon/index.html http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Gordon.html IHAS 110201 loc.natlib.scdb.200033605