A Future for Ordinary Folk - Table of contents

Charles Parker Archive - A Future for Ordinary Folk
A Heritage Lottery funded project of the Charles Parker Archive Trust in partnership with Birmingham City Archives

The aim of this project was to digitise original sound recordings which exist on reel to reel tape, made by the radio producer Charles Parker (1919-1980), and to store the recordings on CD-ROM. This would enable their preservation and, with the addition of a catalogue of the contents, make them accessible to users. See project description for further details.

The recordings, chosen from Charles Parker’s substantial archive, were divided for cataloguing purposes into traditional performances, lectures, revival performances, and discussion of performance.

Table of Contents (this can also be downloaded as a Word document)

MS 4000 The Charles Parker Archive: ‘A Future for Ordinary Folk’ Project
MS 4000/5 Digitised Sound Recordings

MS 4000/5/1 Sound recordings of interviews with traditional folk performers and folk music collectors. Related performance material, folk music and folk song both local and international

MS 4000/5/1/1	Harry Cox - 11 items
MS 4000/5/1/2	Harry Horton - 1 item
MS 4000/5/1/3	Betsy Miller - 8 items
MS 4000/5/1/4	Wednesbury Folk Singers - 23 items
MS 4000/5/1/5	Joe Heaney - 4 items
MS 4000/5/1/6	Mrs Cecilia Costello [Closed to thePublic]
MS 4000/5/1/7	Charlotte Brooks - 12 items
MS 4000/5/1/8	Charlie Burke - 4 items
MS 4000/5/1/9	George Dunn - 17 items
MS 4000/5/1/10	Captain Alfred Ernest Horton - 19 items
MS 4000/5/1/11	English folk music and song: general - 39 items
MS 4000/5/1/12	English and Scottish Song (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger) - 11 items
MS 4000/5/1/13	Francis J. Child: Ballads (England and Scotland) - 8 items
MS 4000/5/1/14	England Series: 1-12; ‘England A' Roving’ - 18 items
MS 4000/5/1/15	Scottish Folk Music - 4 items
MS 4000/5/1/16	Ireland Series -14 items
MS 4000/5/1/17	Irish Folk Music - 6 items
MS 4000/5/1/18	Travellers and the West Midlands Gypsy Liaison Group (WMGLG) - 12 items
MS 4000/5/1/19	Greece: Traditional music from Mount Pílio Peninsula, Central Greece and Samarina, Píndhos Mountains, Western Greece - 12 items
MS 4000/5/1/20	World Music - 29 items

MS 4000/5/2 Sound recordings of Lectures and teaching materials relating to folk music and the oral tradition

MS 4000/5/2/1	Workers' Music Association (WMA) Summer School 1961 at Wortley Hall, South Yorks - 5 items
MS 4000/5/2/2	Workers Educational Association (WEA) Lectures, Birmingham - 21 items
MS 4000/5/2/3	Keele University 1965, Popular Arts Residential Course - 5 items
MS 4000/5/2/4	NATE Lectures (National Association for Teaching English) - 7 items
MS 4000/5/2/5	TRACT Publication - 3 items
MS 4000/5/2/6	PCL Lectures (Polytechnic of Central London) - 23 items
MS 4000/5/2/7	Lectures and student work: general - 40 items
MS 4000/5/2/8	Lectures and student work: miscellaneous [found with other lectures and teaching materials] - 36 items

MS 4000/5/3 Folk Revival Performance material

MS 4000/5/3/1	Alan Lomax - 15 items
MS 4000/5/3/2	A. L. Lloyd - 39 items
MS 4000/5/3/3	Folk Revival Singers - 12 items
MS 4000/5/3/4	‘Of One Blood’ - 3 items
MS 4000/5/3/5	Birmingham and Midland Folk Centre (BMFC)
	MS 4000/5/3/5/1	Concerts - 17 items
	MS 4000/5/3/5/2	Radio Programmes - 6 items
	MS 4000/5/3/5/3	Seminars and Lectures - 91 items
	MS 4000/5/3/5/4	Grey Cock Folk Club - 187 items
	MS 4000/5/3/5/5	Field Recordings and New Songs - 51 items
	MS 4000/5/3/5/6	BMFC Performance - 26 items
	MS 4000/5/3/5/7	BMFC Miscellaneous - 4 items
MS 4000/5/3/6	Grey Cock Folk Club (Miscellaneous) - 20 items
MS 4000/5/3/7	Parkhouse Convention - 4 items
MS 4000/5/3/8	Popular folk/rock music groups - 5 items

MS 4000/5/4 Discussion of folk music and performance

MS 4000/5/4/1	Ewan MacColl: Classes and Teaching - 23 items
MS 4000/5/4/2	Critics Group - 252 items

Visit the pages of the Charles Parker Archive at Birmingham City Council