Folklore Scholarship
Published and unpublished papers
"50 Years of Indiana Folk Music, 1938-1988: Field Collections in the Archives of Traditional Music." Compiled during a Summer Repository Research Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University, 2016.
"Hillbilly Music Re-imagined: Folk and Country Music in the Midwest." Journal of American Folklore, vol. 127, pp. 159-90, 2014.
"The Rise of Rural Rhythm." In The Hayloft
Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. Pp. 19-71,
University of Illinois Press, 2008.
See also Stories
Down the Pike and Other Fiddle Tunes from Orange County, Indiana. Co-producer & author. Vigortone Recordings (reissue), 2013.
Folk Songs of Illinois #2 - Fiddlers" Co-producer and author, Illinois Humanities Council, 2007.
"Midwestern Country Music-Radio Broadcasting, Commercial Recordings, and Personal Appearances to 1950." Written for International Country Music Conference, Belmont University, 2010. (Not delivered, due to ill health.)
"The Multi-Cultural Aspect of Folk and Country Music in the Midwest." Read at Soundscapes of Small Town America conference at Milliken University, 2009.
"Fiddling". In The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, pp. 384-86, Indiana University Press, 2007.
"Folk and Traditional Dance." In The Encyclopedia of Chicago, pp. 302-3, University of Chicago Press, 2004. With Susan K. Eleuterio.
"The True Story of Dickey's Discovery." Reprinted in The Lotus Dickey Songbook, 2nd Edition, pp. 24-27. Indiana University Press, 2005.
Taught Folk and Ethnic Music in Illinois and the
Midwest for Illinois Humanities Council True Learning,
True Teaching Seminar, 2003, and for three universities.
"Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight: The Fiddlers and Dancing Masters of Early Chicago." Newberry Library Colloquim. For Weinburg Fellowship for Independent Scholars: "A History of Traditional Fiddling in the Old Northwest: Analysis of Select 19th and 20th Century Tune Collections," 1999.
Indiana Heritage Research Fellowship, Indiana Committee for the Humanities, 1997. “A Retrospective on Traditional Fiddling in Indiana” for Indiana Fiddlers Gathering, Inc.
"The Cadence and Decadence of the Hoedown Fiddler in the Midwest." Written for meeting of the American Folklore Society, 1997. (Read for DrDosido by Paul Wells.)
"Square Dance in the Rural Midwest:
Dance Events & the Location of Community." In Communities
in Motion, pp. 35-46, Greenwood Press, 1995.
"Regional Square Dance Repertoires: J. Olcutt Sanders's Finding List Revisited." Read at Southern Dance Traditions Conference, East Tennessee State University, 1990.
Lotus Dickey: Fiddle Tunes from Orange County, Indiana. Marimac Recordings, 1992. Co-producer and author of liner notes and booklet. (First appearance of "The True Story of Dickey's Discovery.")
"Sets on the Floor": Social Dance as an Emblem of Community in Rural Indiana. PhD dissertation, Indian University, 1992.
Papers read at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in 1983, '86 & 88. (Two of the three incorporated into DrDosido's dissertation.)
"Ethnic Dance Music in Northern Indiana." Producer and author of cassette album for the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, 1987.
"Traditional Art and Community Dynamics in a Rural Community in Central Illinois." Fieldwork report for Ethnic and Traditional Art: a Statewide Perspective, for Urban Traditions (Chicago) & Southern Illinois University Museum, 1984.
"Field Investigator's Report on Folk Music in East Central Illinois." For the School of Fine Arts & Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University, 1983.
"An Imagined Musicology Journey During Which Prof Charles Seeger Visits a Dance in Dubois County, Indiana." Written for Anthony Seeger's Ethnomusicology Seminar at Indiana University, 1983.
"Images of the Rural Community Reflected in Square Dance Events." Written for American Studies seminar at Indiana University, 1983.
"Country Music in the Cornbelt: WOWO-Fort Wayne in the 1920s and '30s." An independent study project at Indiana University, 1982. (See AFS papers above.)
"Variation and the Tune-A Study of a Fiddler's Artistry and Aesthetics." Written for Ronald Smith's Music Transcription class at Indiana University, 1981.
"Virgil Fulford's Barn Dance." Written for Richard M. Dorson's Folklore and American History class at Indiana University, 1981.
