Byron Arnold Collection

The Byron Arnold collection is an archival collection of Alabama folksong recordings and transcriptions, held at the University of Alabama. The collection was used to publish a 1950 book, Folksongs of Alabama, and later reused for the 2004 Alabama songbook. Several albums have also been published from the collection.

History of the collection

Byron Arnold began collecting Alabama folksongs after joining the piano and organ faculty at the University of Alabama Department of Music in 1937-8.[1] In summer 1945, he made a collecting trip without recording devices.[2]

In 1947, with funding for recording devices, Arnold made field recordings of Alabama music with support from the Folklife Program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Alabama Folklife Association[3][4] Materials were collected before 1950.[5]

The collection, including reel-to-reel tapes, recording discs, and written transcriptions, was donated to the university upon collector Byron Arnold's death in 1971.[2]

Notable singers recorded

Output

The collection has generated 2 books of folksongs, 2 recorded albums, and several scholarly works.

Books

Recordings

Selected Printed Works using the Collection

Archival & historical materials

Further reading

References

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