Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey collection - Finding Aid · Franco American Digital Archives

Contributing Institution: University of Maine at Fort Kent
Repository: Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Fort Kent, Maine
View at Contributing Institution: https://archivesspace.umfk.edu/repositories/4/resources/330
Digitization Status: Finding Aid Only / Instrument de recherche
Identifier/Call Number: MCC-00145
Collection/Part of: Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey collection
Title: en Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey collection - Finding Aid
Description: en This collection provides data on singers, musicians, and other artists in the Upper Saint John Valley during the 1991 – 1993 research. It will be of interest to researchers of French language songs, spoken French language usage, local history and local oral history. The Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey has identified over 200 traditional artists in the Saint John Valley. It has developed a database of traditional music and dance ensembles and also developed a database of persons and groups involved in dissemination, promotion, and sales of traditional arts (located in administrative files). The research done throughout the Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey documented field visits with traditional artists, produced slides, photos, field notes, informant statistics, hours of recorded performances and interviews, and pages of transcriptions and tape logs. Materials were collected in the field by Lisa Ornstein who was Director of the Acadian Archives / Archives acadiennes at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Lisa had minimal assistance from Nick Hawes, Archives’ assistant, and from Don Cyr of Lille, Maine, who served as a research consultant.
Author/Creator: Ornstein, Lisa
Date(s): 1991/1994
Genre: en slides (photographs); en audiocassettes; en contact sheets; en negatives; en sound recordings; en manuscripts; en fieldwork (research)
Topic & Theme: Arts and Creativity/Arts et créativité; Crafts/Artisanat; Music/Musique; Visual Arts/Arts visuels
Geography: Québec; St. John River Valley ME; University of Maine at Fort Kent
familyName: Beaulieu; Martin; Ouellette; Pelletier; Cormier; Cyr; Daigle; Doucette
Source Language: English; French
Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH): Franco-Americans--Maine--Art; Franco-Americans--Maine--Music; Franco-Americans--Art; Music--Maine--Aroostook County; Saint John River Valley (Me. and N.B.)
Répertoire de Vedettes-Matière (RVM): Saint-Jean, Fleuve (Canada / États-Unis ; cours d'eau); Américains d'origine canadienne francophone--Maine--Art; Américains d'origine canadienne francophone--Maine--Musique; Américains d'origine canadienne francophone--Art; Musique--Maine--Aroostook (comté d')
Copyright Statement and Conditions governing use: No listed copyright information. Contact the Acadian Archives for use conditions.
Conditions Governing Access: Most of the items in this collection are available for consultation without restriction.
Existence and Location of Originals: Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Fort Kent, Maine
Extent: 2 Cubic Feet (2 folders, 10 compact discs, 2 photograph albums)
Collection Inventory: en Manuscript: The manuscript contains the transcriptions of the audio cassettes and the fieldnotes of artisans who participated in this project. Audiocassettes: The 10 - 60 minutes audiocassettes have recorded interviews, singing, and music demonstration with the different artists taking part in the Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey. Negatives and contact sheets: 236 black-and-white negatives and 13 black-and-white contact sheets (236 images) showing images of participants, creating their work or performing with their musical instruments, arranged in an archival polypropylene black binder. When finding aid was created, the negatives and contact sheets were in separate polypropylene black archival binder. The Archives staff thought it would be appropriate to place the contact sheets with the matching negatives in one polypropylene black archival binder instead of two separate binders. Color slides: 261 color slides are in an archival polypropylene black binder documenting art work from different artists in the survey.
Recommended Citation: Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey Collection, MCC-00145, Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes, University of Maine at Fort Kent
State/Province: Maine; Québec
Country: United States; Canada

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