Entry Personal Name

Number of records used in: 1

001 - CONTROL NUMBER

• control field: 134955

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20220107145127.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

• fixed length control field: 811210n| azannaabn |a aaa

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: n 81126815

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: (OCoLC)oca00671720

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Description conventions: rda
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: PPi-MA
• Modifying agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: KyU

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

• Birth date: 1922-12-08
• Death date: 2015-06-01
• Source of date scheme: edtf

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Ritchie, Jean

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Place of birth: Viper (Ky.)

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Place of birth: Perry County (Ky.)
• Place of death: Berea (Ky.)
• Associated country: United States
• Place of residence/headquarters: Williamsburg (Ky.)
• Place of residence/headquarters: Perry County (Ky.)
• Place of residence/headquarters: Lexington (Ky.)
• Place of residence/headquarters: New York (N.Y.)
• Place of residence/headquarters: Port Washington (N.Y.)
• Place of residence/headquarters: Fresno (Calif.)
• Source of term: naf

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

• Field of activity: Folk songs, English--Appalachian Region, Southern
• Source of term: lcsh

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Fresno State College
• Source of term: naf
• Start period: 1980
• End period: 1980

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Cumberland College (Williamsburg, Ky.)
• Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: University of Kentucky
• Source of term: naf
• End period: 1946

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Folk singers
• Occupation: Composers
• Occupation: Lyricists
• Occupation: Ethnomusicologists
• Occupation: Teachers
• Occupation: Social workers
• Occupation: Authors
• Source of term: lcsh

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Appalachian dulcimer player

375 ## - GENDER

• Gender: Females
• Source of term: lcdgt

377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE

• Language code: eng

378 ## - FULLER FORM OF PERSONAL NAME

• Fuller form of personal name: Jean Ruth

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Hall, 'Than

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Author's The swapping song book, 1952.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.
• Information found: (Ritchie, Jean; b. 12-8-22, Viper, Crockett Co., KY; folksinger, songwriter, folksong collector, and dulcimer player)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: New York times (online), viewed June 2, 2015
• Information found: (Jean Ritchie; b. Jean Ruth Ritchie, Dec. 8, 1922, Viper, Ky.; moved to New York in the late 1940s; returned from Port Washington, Long Island to Kentucky after the death of her husband in 2010; d. Monday [June 1, 2015], Berea, Ky., aged 92; brought hundreds of traditional songs from her native Appalachia to a wide audience--singing of faith and unfaithfulness, murder and revenge, love unrequited and love lost--and in the process helped ignite the folk song revival of the mid-20th century)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Wikipedia, viewed November 7, 2021
• Information found: (Ritchie's had written numerous songs about mining under the pseudonym 'Than Hall, to avoid troubling her non-political mother, and believing they might be better received if attributed to a man.)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992:
• Information found: pages 773-774 (Jean Ruth Ritchie, born in Viper, Perry County, Ky. She and all of her siblings were musical, with she and her sister Edna becoming professional musicians. Attended Cumberland College in Williamsburg for two years and taught school in Perry County for a year in 1943, then transferred to the University of Kentucky, graduating in 1946 with a degree in social work. Moved to New York City in 1947 to work at the Henry Street Settlement House. Alan Lomax, a folk song collector, recorded her in 1949 for the Library of Congress Folk Song Archives and she became a regular performer on his NYC radio program. Began her recording career in 1952, recording more than 35 albums and writing 11 books of music and a family biography. Received a Fulbright fellowship to study songs of Ireland and England September 1952 to October 1953. In 1980 she was scholar in residence at California State College at Fresno. Maintains two residences: Port Washington, N.Y. and Viper, Kentucky.)