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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
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.
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.
Sidney Robertson Cowell, copying WPA California Folk Music Project recordings for the Library of Congress in the University of California, Berkeley, office. When they returned to California in 1926, Cowell found a job teaching music at the Peninsula School for Creative Education in Menlo Park.
Sidney Robertson Cowell, copying California Folk Music Project ... Gidaldilla. Russian Molokan congregation, Potrero Hill, San Francisco, ... January 20, 1939 field report from Monterey and Carmel. Mario Olmeda, portrait, photograph. Draftsmen making construction drawings of folk instruments at ...
15 de abr. de 2024 · We are excited to announce California Gold: Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1930s California Folk Music, and the American Folklife Center, a new Story Map that follows the folk music collector, Sidney Robertson Cowell (Sidney Robertson at the time), on her 1930s trip to document musicians, singers, and their families and communities in California.
7 de sept. de 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.
