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	'''John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection'''		'''John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection'''

	~~Folklorist John Quincy Wolf, Jr. was born in Batesville,~~ [[Arkansas]] in 1901. The son of a banker who was also a self-taught Ozark memoirist, Wolf spent most of his professional career teaching at Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, where he was head of the English department for decades. He began collecting Ozark folksongs in 1941, and later collected songs from Memphis blues musicians and [[~~Sacred Harp]] singers. He began teaching folklore classes in the 1960s.~~		[[Arkansas]] Folklorist [[John Quincy Wolf\|John Quincy Wolf, Jr.]] died in 1972, leaving behind an important collection of folksong recordings and articles. These are now being made available at http://www.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/index.html

	~~As a folklorist~~, ~~Wolf discovered [[Almeda Riddle]] and other Ozark folksingers from the White River area of Arkansas~~. ~~Fellow folklorist [[Alan Lomax~~]] sought his advice on Ozark and delta blues musicians, and Wolf served as a musical consultant to the [[Newport Folk Festival]]. He also edited his father's newspaper reminiscences about growing up in the upper White River valley in the 1870's and 1880s, which were published posthumously by his widow, Bess Millen Wolf, as ''Life in the Leatherwoods''. Wolf died in 1972, leaving behind an important collection of folksong recordings and articles - now being made available at http://www.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/index.html

	The website is divided into sections including:		The website is divided into sections including:
	*Ozark Folksongs - contains transcriptions and audio files to hundreds of folksongs collected by Wolf from 1952-1970.		*Ozark Folksongs - contains transcriptions and audio files to hundreds of folksongs collected by Wolf from 1952-1970. Indexed by Song Title and Singer. Performers include [[Almeda Riddle]].
	*Sacred Harp		*Sacred Harp
	*Memphis Blues		*Memphis Blues

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'''John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection'''

Folklorist John Quincy Wolf, Jr. was born in Batesville, [[Arkansas]] in 1901. The son of a banker who was also a self-taught Ozark memoirist, Wolf spent most of his professional career teaching at Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, where he was head of the English department for decades. He began collecting Ozark folksongs in 1941, and later collected songs from Memphis blues musicians and [[Sacred Harp]] singers. He began teaching folklore classes in the 1960s.

As a folklorist, Wolf discovered [[Almeda Riddle]] and other Ozark folksingers from the White River area of Arkansas. Fellow folklorist [[Alan Lomax]] sought his advice on Ozark and delta blues musicians, and Wolf served as a musical consultant to the [[Newport Folk Festival]]. He also edited his father's newspaper reminiscences about growing up in the upper White River valley in the 1870's and 1880s, which were published posthumously by his widow, Bess Millen Wolf, as ''Life in the Leatherwoods''. Wolf died in 1972, leaving behind an important collection of folksong recordings and articles - now being made available at http://www.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/index.html

The website is divided into sections including:
*Ozark Folksongs - contains transcriptions and audio files to hundreds of folksongs collected by Wolf from 1952-1970.
*Sacred Harp
*Memphis Blues

John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Revision history

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