Mary Frances Dunham papers, 1964-2002
Mary Frances Dunham papers, 1964-2002
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1704
- Bib ID:
- 10666979 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Dunham, Mary Frances
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 11.5 linear feet (16 document boxes; 7 cassette boxes; 1 oversize folder in mapcase)
- Language(s):
- English , Bengali .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
The reaserach files of Mary Frances Dunham include musical examples with notations, audio cassettes, notes, maps, charts, slides, photographs, and printed material.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 6 series.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Mary Frances Dunham Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Transfer from Music Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/3/2013. Accession number--2013-2014-M152.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers Processed PTL 3/2014.
Revision Description
2014-03-11 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
Mary Frances Dunham worked as an ethnomusicologist at Columbia University. She studied music composition in New York and Paris. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Teaching Classical Languages from Harvard University and one in Indic Studies from Columbia University. Dunham wrote articles and co-edited works specializing in the music of South Asia. During the 1960s, Dunham was introduced to jarigan songs when Jasimuddin, an eminent Bangladeshi poet and collector of folk song texts, asked her to make musical notations of songs he was gathering for his book, Jarigan (1968). She received a grant from the Ford Foundation for further field work and research in order to prepare material for her book on Jarigan.
Subject Headings
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Series I: Diaries
Box 22 Folder 2
Box 22 Folder 3
Box 22 Folder 4
Box 22 Folder 5
Box 22 Folder 6
Box 23 Folder 1
Box 23 Folder 2
Box 23 Folder 3
Box 23 Folder 4
Series II: Documentation of Twelve Selected Jarigan Songs
(Music, Text Transcriptions, Analyses)
Box 22 Folder 1
(Dhaka & U.S.A.)
Box 1 Folder 1
(Includes MFD transcriptions, analysis, and texts of the 12 sample Jarigan tunes recorded (1964) for Jasimuddin's book about Jarigan)
Box 1 Folder 2
Box 1 Folder 3
Box 1 Folder 4
Box 1 Folder 5
Box 1 Folder 6
Box 1 Folder 7
Box 1 Folder 8
Box 1 Folder 9
Box 1 Folder 10
Box 1 Folder 11
Box 1 Folder 12
Box 1 Folder 13
Box 2 Folder 14
Box 2 Folder 15
Box 2 Folder 16
Box 2 Folder 17
Box 2 Folder 18
Box 2 Folder 19
Box 2 Folder 20
Box 2 Folder 21
Box 19 Folder 6
Box 19 Folder 7
Box 19 Folder 8
Box 19 Folder 12
Box 19 Folder 9
"Very precoius Includes I. Katz review of Songs 6 & 8 (3/30/1995)"
Box 19 Folder 10
Box 19 Folder 11
Box 19 Folder 13
Box 19 Folder 16
Box 2 Folder 22
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Box 2 Folder 31
Box 19 Folder 5
Box 20 Folder 3
Series III: Mary Frances Dunham Jarigan Related Research
Box 20 Folder 12
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in Indian Language and Literature in the department of Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
"To Professor Rhodes, in happy memory of my initiation to (ethno) musicology and your interest in these songs, Mary Frances Dunham, October 1972"
Box 19 Folder 17
Box 19 Folder 18
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Box 20 Folder 13
Box 4 Folder 57
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Box 4 Folder 63
Box 4 Folder 64
Box 19 Folder 1
Box 10
Box 4 Folder 65
Box 4 Folder 66
Box 4 Folder 67-69
Series IV: Mary Frances Dunham Field Notes, Art, Photographs and Slides, 1995-1996
Box 5 Folder 70
Box 5 Folder 71
Box 5 Folder 72
Box 5 Folder 73
Box 5 Folder 74
Box 12
Music diagrams; Duldul; Muharram; Jarigan; Lathi Khela; Jatra; Jarigan singers; Boat race; Bengal music.
Box 5 Folder 75-78
Box 20 Folder 1
Jarigan, Muharram, Bishad Sindu, etc.
Box 6 Folder 79
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Box 6 Folder 85
Box 20 Folder 5
Box 6 Folder 86
Box 6 Folder 87
Box 19 Folder 14
Box 20 Folder 4
Box 21
Mapcase 15-L-9
Given to MFD by Ameneh Ispahani, Dhaka, 1996
Box 20 Folder 4
Series V: Music Recordings Relevant to Jarigan
Box 13
See also the pamphlet for this boxed set in Box 9, Folder 145.
Box 21
Box 21
Accompanying audio cassette to "Jarigan: Muslim Epic Songs of Bangladesh by Mary Frances Dunham, 1997"
Box 21
Box 21
Box 21
Lecture by MFD. Bangladesh & Indian Councils
Box 21
Box 21
Box 13
Box 13
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Box 13
Box 13
Do Not Use.
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Box 18
Series VI: Materials About Indian Theater, Indian Folk Music, Jarigan, Marsiya, Muharram
Box 6 Folder 88
Box 6 Folder 89
Box 6 Folder 90
Box 4 Folder 58
Box 20 Folder 10
Box 6 Folder 91
Box 6 Folder 92
Box 6 Folder 93
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Box 4 Folder 16
Box 7 Folder 103
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Box 8 Folder 118
Box 8 Folder 119
Box 8 Folder 120
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Box 8 Folder 135
Box 8 Folder 136
Box 4 Folder 51
Box 8 Folder 137
Box 8 Folder 138
Box 8 Folder 139
Box 9 Folder 140
Box 9 Folder 141
Box 9 Folder 142
Box 19 Folder 2
Box 19 Folder 3
This book contains the full programme of the First Year "Vocal" Course, according to the prospectus of the Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad, East Pakistan: Catholic Education Center, Rita Boucher, January 1066
The inserted pages of handwritten Bengali script appears to be musical notations
Box 20 Folder 6
Box 20 Folder 9
Box 20 Folder 11
Series VII: Printed
Box 9 Folder 145
See boxed set of cassettes in Box 13 of the collection.
Box 10 Folder 146
Box 10 Folder 147
Box 10 Folder 148
Box 10 Folder 149
Box 10 Folder 150
Box 10 Folder 151
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Box 11 Folder 157
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Box 11 Folder 162
Box 20 Folder 4
Box 11 Folder 163
Box 20 Folder 2
Box 19 Folder 4
Box 19 Folder 4
Content reales to Jasimuddin's death anniversary in 1994
Box 19 Folder 15
Box 20 Folder 7
Box 20 Folder 8