How to Use DrDosido.net 3.0

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1. Recordings pages are organized by artists, split into Fiddlers, Ensembles, and Folk Musicians.
2. Events pages list recording sessions by project. Call them Event Rosters.
3. Stories &c. present a variety of writings, linked to Event Rosters.

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Recordings

My Collections are represented here by selected performances (aka Titles), grouped by artist. Because fiddle music predominates here, artists are divided onto separate pages: Fiddlers, Ensembles, and Folk Musicians (including singers and instrumentalists).

Fiddlers have been further divided into regional groups:

• Indiana Fiddlers IH - for "Indiana Hoedown," DrDosido's first big fieldwork project.
• Fiddlers-Great Lakes GL - the other 4 states of the Old Northwest: Ohio,Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin.
• Chicago Fiddlers GL - where DrDosido has spent half of his life.
• Fiddlers-Here & There HT - everything beyond the Old Northwest.
There are also separate pages for the . . .

• Lotus Dickey Repertoire GL - tunes played by my mentor, a fiddler from Orange County, Indiana.
• Arto Järvelä Residency GL - tunes from  Finland, played and taught during a month-long stay in Chicago.

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Key to entries

Here is a further explanation:
Each Artist entry contains selections from one or more albums or recording events.
Each event is referred to by an ID# that corresponds to an item on the event rosters.
Many ID#s are followed by an Project acronym, that refers to a large table on the event rosters.
(Hover your curser over the acronym to see full title.)
Other information follows: hometown of the artist - year of the recording. Personnel and brief contextual data.

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Event Rosters

Events (aka Sessions or Albums) are organized according to DrDosido's career as a folklorist and teaching artist.

• Grant Projects includes funded freelance fieldwork and research, starting with "Indiana Hoedown. "
• Folk Schools refers to 30-plus years of programs at Adler House and the Old Town School of Folk Music.
• Tune Catcher covers independent fieldwork and recordings that emerged from participating in community life.

Event Rosters contain links to both the Recordings pages-linked by artist name-and the Stories &c pages-linked by ID#.

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Stories &c.

My Reflections took various forms, including biographical sketches and event reports, published scholarship and public commentary, and accounts of tune catching.

• Field Notes: biographical material from project reports, interview transcripts, and remembered encounters.
  
• Words About Music: published articles, graduate school papers, and public reflections.
• Stories (under construction): will make use of DrDosido's Blog.