Folklore & Spoken Word Performances
in the Berea Sound Archives
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- Sound Archives Research GuidesResearch guides are the work of Archives staff and the College's Sound Archives Fellows. Using audio and video illustrations, the guides cover a wide range of topics.
- Sound Archives Collection Finding AidsFinding Aids provide information and a complete list of collection materials. Many finding aids include links to digitized audio and video content.
- Sound Archives Fellowship ProgramFrom 2005-2016, the Sound Archives Fellowship program supported both the scholarly use of Berea's non-commercial audio / video collections and the conducting of cultural documentation projects that produced new material for future research use.
- Sound Preservation ProgramThe program's focus is on Berea's collections of noncommercial recordings that document Appalachian history and culture and the history of Berea College.
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Folklore & Spoken Word Research Guides
These guides are the work of Archives staff and scholars supported by the College’s Sound Archives Fellowship Program.
Folklore & Spoken Word Collections
These collections contain audio and / or video content. Click on the collection title for more information, a complete list of collection recordings, and links to the digitized content.
Kentucky Storytelling and Jack Tales
Stories by Harry Caudill, Bert Combs, and Bill C. Clark from the 1970s. Jack tales by Leslie County Kentucky
school children 1949-1950.
Leonard Ward Roberts Collection
Includes audio recordings and transcriptions of folklore narratives collected by noted Kentucky folklorist Leonard Roberts.
Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling Collection, 1987
Video recordings documenting the Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling held at Berea College, November 12-14, 1987. Features of the event included concurrent storytelling sessions for various ages, the Second National Liars Contest, an informal "Swapping Ground" for storytellers, and scholarly lectures on the status of blacks in Appalachia.
Planting by the Signs in Kentucky Oral History Collection, 2018-2019
Seventeen audio recorded interviews with active gardeners that document the practice of scheduling planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops based on moon phases and astrological signs.
Robert and Laura Thurman Appalachian Storytelling Collection
