Research Catalog

Title

Lecture on The Shakers [sound recording].

Author

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958.

Publication

1955.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Oral history archive.
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010

Description

1 sound disc (10 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

Doris Humphrey speaks about the Shaker religion and the role of dancing in their services; her dance The Shakers.

Subject

• Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
• Shakers
• Audiotapes > Humphrey, D

Note

• Re-recorded from a recording made in 1955 at Connecticut College, New London, Conn.
• This recording was made as part of the research for Cohen's completion of Humphrey's autobiography: Doris Humphrey: an artist first (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972).
• Sound quality ranges from very poor to poor. The recording is also marred by a continuous buzzing noise.

Funding (note)

• Preservation funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.

System Details (note)

• Transferred from 1 sound cassette (ca. 10 min.; 1 7/8 ips; re-recording of a recording originally made in 1955) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Source (note)

• Selma Jeanne Cohen

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-949 no. 16

OCLC

77606861

Author

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958.

Title

Lecture on The Shakers [sound recording].

Imprint

1955.

Funding

Preservation funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.

System Details

Transferred from 1 sound cassette (ca. 10 min.; 1 7/8 ips; re-recording of a recording originally made in 1955) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZTC 3-949 no. 16

Former archival original: *MGZTCO 3-949 no. 16.

Added Author

Selma Jeanne Cohen. Donor

Oral history archive.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-949 no. 16