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- From: Joe.Clement@f120.n226.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: Re: wolfrider
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- Date: 19 Dec 92 05:10:00
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- BR>Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- BR>From: roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper)
- BR>Message-ID: ByKApM.Dzn@chinet.chi.il.us
- BR>Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
-
- BR>I am told that most of the old Off-Centaur masters were
- BR>donated to the Popular Culture library at the University of Kentucky
- BR>at Bowling Green (I think I got that right...) with the proviso that
- BR>they not be used for commercial purposes.
-
-
- The Off-Centaur masters, along with a box of paper copies of lyrics, some old
- filk magazines (I believe the title was "Kanele"), and some misc. other papers
- were donated to the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University
- in Bowling Green _Ohio_.
-
- I had heard that someone had donated some filk related material to the library
- so I stopped in there one day when I was in Bowling Green. I was _very_
- suprised to see just what the material was. There are 78 tapes (I don't know
- if all of them are masters). I immediately asked the obvious question (Could
- I have the opportunity to copy some of them?) and was told "No way, Jose!".
- The Curator (a very nice gentleman whose name escapes me at the moment) said
- that they were all copy-writed and he wasn't sure who owned the copywrite and
- that he wasn't going to get involved in that. They do have cassette copies
- that you can listen to at the library, though.
-
- The papers consist of the old filk magazines, a couple of filk books, and a
- lot of loose papers with lyrics on them. Some of the loose papers appear to
- be the original hand written copy of a song written on various hotel
- stationary or notebook paper. Much of the paper is Xerox copies of these
- documents or of later revisions, typewritten lyrics, and what-not. Many of
- these have multiple copies.
-
- None of this stuff has been catalogued nor is it likely to be. The day I was
- there they had just had a fare-well lunch for 2 staffers that were leaving and
- they would _not_ be replaced due to budget considerations (Ohio higher
- education has taken it on the chin due to state budget problems). They did
- let me paw through this stuff to my heart's content and make copies of some of
- the papers (filled in some missing blanks in my transcribed songs from various
- convention tapes).
-
- Barry and Sally Childs-Helton "might" have the academic credentials to get
- copies of the tapes for "scholarly research" but the rest of us are out of
- luck unless someone can obtain the necessary copywrites and then get the
- Library to let them make new recordings for sale.
-
- If someone would like to visit the library and listen to the tapes or view the
- material, it is not in the Popular Culture Library per se (a very interesting
- place in itself) but in the music department 1 floor down.
-
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