Restrictions: There are no restrictions on use of this material other than federal copyright regulations. Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Acquisition Note:
The material is in photocopied form and was compiled by Berea College Library staff from a lyric collection at the Louisville, Kentucky Free Public Library and a related set of transcriptions found in the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Preferred Citation: [Object identification], Federal Music Project - Eastern Kentucky Folk Song Collection, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, KY.
Scope and Contents: This collection consists of 131 song lyrics and tune transcriptions of songs, ballads, hymns, and fiddle tunes collected in about 1936 by Federal Music Project workers in Boyd, Floyd, and Rowan Counties in eastern Kentucky. In a few instances there are either lyrics without musical transcriptions or transcriptions without lyrics.