1888 - 1961
Robert Winslow Gordon American Educator
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| First Name |
Robert
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| Middle Name |
Winslow
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| Last Name |
Gordon
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| Birthday |
2nd September, 1888
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| Birthplace |
Bangor, Maine
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| Died |
26th March, 1961
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| Buried |
Darien, Georgia
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
folklorist
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| Occupation |
Educator
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Robert Winslow Gordon (September 2, 1888 – March 26, 1961) was educated at Harvard. He joined the English faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 1918. In 1923, he was asked by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman to run the folk music column "Old Songs Men Have Sung" in Hoffman's magazine, Adventure. Gordon accepted and used the Adventure column to collect information on traditional American music from the magazine's readers. He was the founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song (later the Archive of Folk Culture, which became part of the American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress in 1928. He was a pioneer in using mechanical means to document folk musicians, originally using Edison cylinder recordings. He is known among folk singers as the originator of the infamous Gordon "Inferno" Collection of American songs; he also collected an early version of Kumbaya. From 1943 to 1958, he was a Professor of English at George Washington University. He died March 26, 1961.
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