Vance Randolph with Musicians

Folklorist Vance Randolph, who traveled throughout the state in the 1940s and 1950s to collect and record traditional music.

Old white man kneeling at a recording device playing a fiddle with a young white man sitting playing guitar next to him while another monitors the recording equipment

Courtesy of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History/John Foster Museum, School of the Ozarks (S-85-199-2)

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World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

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