Accession Number: 57
The Leonard Ward Roberts Collection
Papers and Sound Recordings 1949-1983
27.8 Linear Feet
44 Cassette Tapes
99 Reel Tapes
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview & Series Description
History
Series I - Biographical Information
Series II - Writings
Series III - Publications Edited by Leonard Roberts
Series IV - General Correspondence
Series V - Subject Files
Series VI - Ballad and Song Texts
Series VII - Student Folklore Collections
Series VIII - Games
Series IX - Regional Writers
Series X - Community Histories
Series XI - Folklore
Series XII - Folktales
Series XIII - Folksong Texts
Series XIV - Folkways
Series XV - Genealogy
Series XVI - Interviews
Series XVII - Indians
Series XVIII - Teaching Aids
Series XIX - Audio Tapes and Transcripts
Series XX - Card Files

This series consists of song texts with a wide variety of topics and types. A partial list of categories includes "criminals," "religion," "satire," "love," "disasters," "death," and "work," to name only a few.

1. Blackface Minstrels and Negro Secular
2. Courting Songs
3. Courting Songs
4. Courting Songs
5. Drinking and Gambling Songs
6. Homiletic Songs #1
7. Homiletic Songs #2
8. Jingles about Animals
9. Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes
10. Martial, Political and Patriotic

Box 37

1. Play-Party and Dance Songs
2. Prisoners and Tramps
3. Religious
4. Religious
5. Religious
6. Religious
7. Satirical

This series includes material relating to beliefs, customs, recipes, speech, remedies, and superstitions.

Box 37 (cont.)

8. "Appalachian Values" by Loyal Jones in Twigs #1, Fall 1973
9. Beliefs and Practices
10. Birth, Marriage, Death, Food, Shelter, and Holidays
11. Death and Burial
12. Funeral Customs
13. Humorous Speech
14. Proverbs and Sayings
15. Proverbs
16. Recipes and Food Preparation (Not Medicine)
17. Recipes-General
18. Religion in Appalachia
19. Remedies
20. Superstition

Box 38

1. Superstitions
2. Superstitions
3. Superstitions
4. Superstitions
5. Superstitions
6. Superstitions
7. Superstitions
8. Superstitions
9. Superstitions
10. Superstitions
11. Superstitions
12. Superstitions
13. Superstitions
14. Superstitions

Box 39

1. Superstitions
2. Superstitions

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