@article{867075,
      recid = {867075},
      title = {Robert Winslow Gordon and American folk music.},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      note = {Date range of documents: 1909-1932.},
      abstract = {Robert Winslow Gordon (1888-1961), a native of Maine,  attended Harvard College and taught in the department of  English at the University of California at Berkeley. His  monthly column in Adventure Magazine, "Old Songs that Men  Sing," attracted attention from readers across the United  States, and he received thousands of letters containing  songs and queries. In 1928 Gordon became the first  archivist of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the  Archive of Folk Culture) in the Library of Congress. He was  a pioneer in using mechanical means to document folk  musicians, and his cylinders and discs in the Library of  Congress form part of his legacy. The collection of Gordon  manuscripts contained here, primarily from 1922 to 1932,  offers researchers online access to the daily workings of  an important twenty-century American folklorist.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/867075},
}