Robert Winslow Gordon

Robert Winslow Gordon

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name=Robert Winslow Gordon



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caption=Robert Winslow Gordon with Edison Cylinders
birth_date=September 2, 1888
birth_place=Bangor, Maine
death_date=March 26, 1961
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education=Harvard University
employer=University of California at Berkley, Library of Congress
occupation=folklorist
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Robert Winslow Gordon was born September 2, 1888 in Bangor, Maine. Educated at Harvard, he joined the English faculty at the University of California at Berkley in 1918. He was the founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1928, later the Archive of Folk Culture, which became part of the American Folklife Center. He was a pioneer in using mechanical means to document folk musicians, originally using Edison cylinder recordings. He is known among folk singers as the originator of the infamous Gordon "Inferno" Collection of American songs,and he also collected an early version of Kumbaya. From 1943 to 1958, he was a Professor of English at George Washington University.He died March 26, 1961.

References

* [http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932]
* [http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv07188 Robert W. Gordon Collection at the University of Oregon]

Biography

Kodish, Debora, "Good Friends and Bad Enemies: Robert Winslow Gordon and the Study of American Folksong." ISBN 978-0252012518

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NAME=Robert Winslow Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Robert W. Gordon
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH= September 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH= Bangor, Maine
DATE OF DEATH= March 26, 1961
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