National identity in terms of traditional songs?

Here's an article about notions of American identity.  It's by Delaina Sepko :- 

• 'The Archive of American Folk Song, the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory and Notions of American Identity' 

 The article was published in Fontes, April/June 2015.  You can read the whole paper online HERE.

American Folk Music Index

Today, Bibliolore blogs about Jane Keefer's American Folk Music Index.  Well worth a look!

Pete Seeger, filmmaker

Bibliolore has done a blog about Pete Seeger, whom we know as an American singer/song-collector - but there's more to know.  Read about his earlier filming activities ...

Click here.

See what the Whittaker Library has by Pete and his half-sister Peggy Seeger ... click here.