From: "Topp Fargion, Janet" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Dear All,
A new website celebrating the field work of folk music collector Peter Kennedy has just been launched – http://www.peterkennedyarchive.org/.
The website was designed by Andrew Pace as part of an AHRC Cultural Engagement project grant awarded to City University London and partially funded by the National Folk Music Fund.
This webpage allows you navigate Peter Kennedy’s archive by allowing you to retrace his recording itinerary, at least for those recordings made between 1950 and 1960. Kennedy’s reports written for the BBC’s ‘Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme’, a project on which he was working during the 1950s, were used as the basis for the site.
The site brings the narratives found in these reports together by featuring ‘hotspots’ placed over the names of the more than 650 musicians that Peter recorded during his trips across the British Isles. By clicking on the name of a performer, you can link to any sound recordings or photographs taken of them by Peter on that particular day and also read Kennedy’s report.
In the words of Andrew Pace, who has been cataloguing the Kennedy collection since 2010 –
What makes this website unique is the way it contextualises recordings and photographs of performers with Peter’s own notes about them. Whilst the British Library’s catalogue is useful as a search tool, it doesn’t reveal how a collection was formed and developed – and it doesn’t tell us very much about who created it. This new website gives us a better idea of what’s in this collection by refocusing attention on Peter as a recordist and reconstituting his material into a form that better resembles how he created it.
I hope www.peterkennedyarchive.org<http://www.peterkennedyarchive.org> will prove useful to researchers and musicians alike and encourage more people to explore Peter’s collection at the British Library. As more of his field recordings are digitised and attached to the site, it should become an increasingly valuable resource.
You can read more about the project here – http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/06/peter-kennedy-archive.html#sthash.WX6YmBF7.dpuf
https://blogs.city.ac.uk/music/2016/05/06/ahrc-cultural-engagement-researcher-andrew-pace-talks-about-his-work-with-a-collection-of-british-and-irish-folk-music/
Dr Janet Topp-Fargion
Lead Curator, World and Traditional Music
Sound & Vision
British Library
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