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Sidney Robertson Cowell (1948) Sidney Robertson Cowell (* 2. Juni 1903 als Sidney William Hawkins in San Francisco; † 23. Februar 1995 in Shady, New York) war eine US-amerikanische Ethnografin und Anthropologin. Ihre Aufzeichnungen amerikanischer Volksmusik waren die ersten, die sich nicht ausschließlich mit indigener oder ...
Sidney Robertson Cowell (born Sidney William Hawkins; June 2, 1903 – February 23, 1995) was an American ethnomusicologist, collector of folk songs, and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell. [1] [2] Life and career. She was born on June 2, 1903, in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Charles Albert Hawkins and Mabel Hawkins (née Morrison).
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Sidney Robertson Cowell collection, 1901-1992
About The Collector and Her Life. Sidney Robertson Cowell was a song catcher, among the nation’s first and most perceptive ethnographers who recorded a large body of ethnic music between 1936 and 1957. She spent most of her 30s traveling alone throughout the United States collecting music from lumberjack camps, dance halls, and chain gangs.
7. Sept. 2016 · September 7, 2016. 7 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Murder, infidelity, drunkenness, deceit, surreal zoological visions, warfare, sea journeys, and divine retribution are pretty common themes in American folk music. Sidney Robertson Cowell knew all that.
Sidney Robertson Cowell, Ethnographer and Folk Music Collector. Timeline of significant life events of Sidney Roberston Cowell which led her to work on the WPA (Works Projects Administration) California Folk Music Project. Sidney Roberston Cowell (1903-1995) 1903. Born Sidney William Hawkins in San Francisco, California. 1924.
The Ethnographic Experience: Sidney Robertson Cowell in Northern California. From 1938 to 1940, while in her thirties, Sidney Robertson, ethnographer and collector of traditional American music, single-handedly organized and directed a California Work Projects Administration project designed to survey musical traditions in Northern California.
This New Deal project was organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and cosponsored by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the American Folklife Center archive), this undertaking was one of the earliest ...
