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BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (public)

  • Location: Harold B. Lee Library, Provo, UT
  • Phone: (801) 422-6119
  • Library Contact: David A. Day, Curator of Music Special Collections david_day@byu.edu

Collection materials not specified.

CARSON-BRIERLY DANCE LIBRARY (public)

  • Location: University of Denver, Penrose Library, Department of Special Collections and Archives, Denver, CO
  • Phone: (303) 871-3428
  • Web site: thedancearchive.org/collections

Collection includes books, magazines, posters, sheet music, and dance notes. Some items are available for online viewing.

FOLK DANCE FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA – NORTH (public)

Collection includes “Let’s Dance!” magazine, dance notes, ephemera (scrapbooks, posters, calendars, folk dance-related books).

KENTUCKY DANCE FOUNDATION (public)

  • Location: The Folk Dancer Record Center, Brandenburg, KY
  • Phone: (800) 446-1209 or (270)-422-3655
  • Library Contact: President of the Kentucky Dance Foundation, fdrc@aol.com

“KDF is a nonprofit organization for the preservation of all the Folk Dance Music, including the Michael Herman Personal Library.”

LESLIE HYLL & ED CORDRAY ARCHIVES  (private collection)

Collection includes books, magazines, dance descriptions, sheet music, audio and visual recordings, costumes.

LOUI TUCKER’S ISRAELI DANCE ARCHIVES (private)

Collection includes an emphasis on Israeli dance & music, as well as international folk dance. Books, audio & visual recordings, dance descriptions, links to many resources, including a series of articles written by Loui Tucker.

MARVIN E. MOEHLE “Balkan Legacy” (private)

Collection includes books, magazines, dance descriptions, sheet music, flyers, posters, letters, and pictures, audio recordings, videos, world costumes mainly from Eastern Europe.

MIAMI VALLEY FOLK DANCERS (private)

“MVFD is a non-profit recreational international folk dance club for the appreciation, preservation and propagation of international folk dancing.”

NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM (public)

As a pan-Nordic institution, their collections include decorative art, design, photographs, manuscripts & publications, and archival materials from the five countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, and the autonomous regions of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland Islands, and the cultural region of Sápmi.

NEW HAMPSHIRE LIBRARY OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE

Collection includes books, magazines, sheet music, dance notes.

SOCIETY OF FOLK DANCE HISTORIANS (Private)

“Dedicated to preserving information about the history and practice of international folk dancing for the use of individuals worldwide.” Collection includes books, magazine titles, dance descriptions, sheet music. Some costumes and ephemera.

SQUARE DANCE FOUNDATION OF NEW ENGLAND (private)

  • Location: Archive Center, Manchester, NH
  • Contacts:  Dick & Judy Severance, Archive Directors (603)-623-2692
  • Anna Dixon, (781) 944-4416)
  • www.sdfne.org/on-line-resources/

Collection includes Square and Round Dance music albums & records, interviews, memorabilia, costumes.

UCLA ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVE (partially public)

Among the largest ethnographic sound recording archives in North America. Collections include non-commercial field recordings & commercially produced recordings of traditional, folk, popular world music.

  • Personal Archives of George Fogg (in process)
  • NOTE: The Lawton Harris Collection of Folk Dance Materials was donated to Brigham Young and is not yet accessible.
  • Please send archive submissions to the NFO webmaster