Sound Salon with Mark L. Louden

One of the very few collections of commercially available recordings of Pennsylvania Dutch folk music ever made was a set of three 78s recorded in 1951 by J. William Frey. Frey (1916–1989) was a native speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch and a professor of German and Russian for many years at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. This presentation will discuss Frey’s recordings of seven secular songs that he himself performed for the collection, Folksongs of the Pennsylvania Dutch.