"Memorial Transmission in Old English Poetry," Chaucer Review III
(Fall 1969): 174-90.
Music editor, Folklore on the American Land, ed. Duncan B.M. Emrich,
American Fiddle Tunes. Library of Congress AFS L-62. Documentary LP
recording with 36-page accompanying booklet. 1971. Reissued on CD with 72-page booklet: Rounder
18964-1518-2, 2000.
The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions, with
Carl Fleischhauer. Library of Congress AFS L65-L66. Documentary double-LP
recording with 36-page accompanying booklet. 1973. Reissued as a double-CD
edition with 120-page booklet, entitled The Hammons Family: The Traditions
of a West Virginia Family and Their Friends, 1998. The CD edition
incorporates both the original Hammons Family and Shaking Down the
Acorns (see below). Includes
“Preface to the Expanded Edition.”
Shaking Down the Acorns: Traditional Music and Stories from Pocahontas and
"Folk Music in
“Director's Column,” Folklife Center News, l978-. Quarterly publication.
"The Study of Folk Music in the
"Folklife and Cultural
Preservation," with Howard W. Marshall. In New Directions in Rural
Preservation. U.S. Department of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and
Recreation Service, 1980, 43-50.
"Creativity and Aging: Thoughts from a Folklife Perspective," in Perspectives
on
Aging: Exploding the Myth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Co.,
1981, 139-49.
"Some Reflections on Intangible Cultural Resources," in Rescue Archeology.
Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1982, 251-56.
"American
Folklore Studies: The Tradition and the Future," Folklore Forum,
Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 1983): 235-47.
“Folklore Protection and National Patrimony: Developments and Dilemmas in the
Legal Protection of Folklore," in IFPI News, No. 15, l982; in Copyright
Bulletin, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1983, in English, French, and Spanish; in Public
Policy Issues and Latin American Library Resources, Papers of the 27th
Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisitions of Latin American Library
Materials, Washington, D.C., March 2-5, 1982. SALALM Secretariat,
"Keeping Track of Culture: Grassroots Conservation," in Passing
Time and Traditions: Contemporary
The Edden Hammons Collection: Historic Recordings of Traditional Fiddle
Music from the Louis Watson Chappell Archive, with John A. Cuthbert.
Documentary LP recording with 18-page accompanying booklet "Edden Hammons:
His Life and Music."
Editor (with James Hardin), Folklife Annual.
"George P. Knauff's
"Introduction," Folk Roots, New Roots: Folklore in American Life.
"On the Values of American Folklorists," Journal of American Folklore,
vol. 102, no. 405, (July-September 1989): 292-98.
The
Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America & the Caribbean. The Library of Congress, Endangered Music Project.
Produced by Mickey Hart and Alan Jabbour. Documentary recording in compact-disc
and cassette editions with an accompanying booklet. Rykodisc RCD 10250.
"Foreword," Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined.
"The Fiddle in the Blue Ridge,"
Music for the Gods: The
recording
in compact-disc and cassette editions with an accompanying booklet. Rykodisc
RCD 10315. 1994.
"The
"The American Folklife Center" (pp. 16-17), "The Archive of Folk
Culture" (p. 44), "Fiddle Music" (pp. 253-256). In American Folklore:
An Encyclopedia, ed. Jan Harold Brunvand.
The Discoteca Collection: Missao de
Pesquisas Folkloricas. The Library of Congress, Endangered Music
Project. Produced by Mickey Hart and Alan Jabbour. Documentary compact-disc
recording with an accompanying booklet. Rykodisc RCD 10403. 1997.
L.H. Correa de Azevedo: Music of
Ceara and Minas Gerais. The Library of Congress, Endangered Music
Project. Produced by Mickey Hart and Alan Jabbour. Documentary compact-disc
recording with an accompanying booklet. Rykodisc RCD 10404. 1997.
The Arthur S. Alberts Collection:
More Tribal, Folk, and Café Music of
Hart
and Alan Jabbour. Documentary compact-disc recording with accompanying booklet.
Rykodisc 10401. 1998.
The Yoruba/Dahomean Collection:
Orishas Across the Ocean. The Library of Congress, Endangered Music
Project. Produced by Mickey Hart and Alan Jabbour. Documentary compact-disc
recording with accompanying booklet. Rykodisc 10405. 1998.
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection. Library of
Congress website. 2000. Includes essay “The Life, Art, and Influence of Henry
Reed,” as well as field recordings, fieldnotes, musical transcriptions, a video
commentary on bowing style, and analytical notes for all the recordings. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/.
"The
James Madison Carpenter Collection." Folk Music Journal, volume 7, number 4 (1998), pp. 399-400.
“The
Flowering of the Folk Revival.” In American
Roots Music, ed. Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, and Jim Brown.
“The
Four Modes of Preservation,” in Preserving Our Heritage, by Keith
Donohue.
A Henry Reed
“In
Search of the Source of American Syncopation.”
Strings, Volume 16, number 8 (Issue 102), May/June 2002, pp.
46-56.
“Introduction,”
North American Folklore Series, appearing in each of 21 volumes, Mason Crest
Publishers,
Learning Old-Time Fiddle Appalachian Style with Alan
Jabbour: 10 Easy Pieces, an Interview, and Tune Transcriptions.
2003. Instructional video in both DVD and VHS
editions, with an accompanying brochure.
“Folklife,
Intangible Heritage, and the Promise and Perils of Cultural Cooperation.” In A
Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century, ed.
Robert E. Stipe. Chapel Hill and
“The
Two Faces of Folklore.” In Folklore,
Public Sphere and Civil Society, ed. M.D. Muthukumaraswamy and Molly
Kaushal.
Hollow Rock Legacy.
Privately published two-CD recording, 2004. Reissues Hollow Rock
String Band (1974) and Sandy’s Fancy (1981).
Southern Summits.
Privately published CD recording.
Alan Jabbour, fiddle,
Goldfield, Steve. “Alan Jabbour: Fiddler, Scholar, and
Preserver of Tradition.” Fiddler Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 2006),
pp. 14-20. Biographical article based on interview.
“Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier.” In Driving the Bow: Fiddle and Dance
Studies from around the
Fiddle
Tunes Illuminated: 45 Tunes Transcribed and Annotated for Stylistic Study.
Jabbour, Alan, and Karen
Singer Jabbour. Decoration Day in the
Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians.
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina
Press, 2010. xvi + 234 pp., introduction, acknowledgments, 33 color photographs
and 86 black-and-white photographs, map, appendices, endnotes, index.
“Helen Cable Vance and the
North Shore Historical Association.” North Carolina Folklore Journal,
vol. 57, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2010), pp. 22-28. Photographs by Karen Singer
Jabbour appear with the essay and on the front and back covers.
Jabbour, Alan, and Karen
Singer Jabbour. “The Balsam Highlands Cemetery Style: A Meditation on Regional
Creativity.” North Carolina Folklore
Journal, vol. 59, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2012), pp. 47-59. Photographs by Karen
Singer Jabbour appear with the essay and on the front cover.
Gus Garelick. “Alan Jabbour
on Henry Reed and the Grand Old Virginia Repertory.” Fiddler Magazine. Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 4-10. Interview
with Alan Jabbour and two transcriptions from Fiddle Tunes Illuminated (Henry Reed’s Favorite” and “Billy in the
Low Land”), cover photo of Alan Jabbour by Karen Singer Jabbour.
Folk-Songs of the South, by John Harrington Cox. Originally published 1925.
Introduction to new edition by Alan Jabbour, pp. xv-xxii. Morgantown: West
Virginia University Press, 2013, West Virginia Classics, volume 4.
January
2014