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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Don. Yoder papers #4244, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Don Yoder of Devon, Pa., in 1980 and September 1990.

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• Evangelical United Brethren Church.
• Evangelicalism--Pennsylvania.
• Folk songs, Pennsylvania German.
• Folklore--Pennsylvania.
• Hymns, German--Pennsylvania.
• Music--Religious aspects.
• Pennsylvania Dutch--Songs and music.
• Yoder, Don.

Don Yoder is a musician and folklorist. In the 1950s, he was on the faculty of Franklin and Marshall College. In the 1960s, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was initially on the faculty of the Department of Religious Thought and later in the Department of Folklore and Folklife

Yoder is the author of several books, many of them having to do with the lives of German immigrants in Pennsylvania. One of his prime research interests is the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Yoder's works include: Songs Along the Mahantongo: Pennsylvania Dutch Folk-Songs (with Walter E. Boyer and Albert F. Buffington, 1951); Pennsylvania Spirituals (1962); American Folklife (ed., 1976); Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786 (1980); Rhineland Emigrants: Lists of German Settlers in Colonial America (ed., 1981); Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley (essay contributed, 1987); Discovering American Folklife: Studies in Ethnic, Religious, and Regional Culture (1990).

Correspondence, writings, notes, sheet music, open-reel tapes (FT 5505-5510), and other materials, chiefly relating to the collection of texts of German and Pennsylvania Dutch hymns for Yoder's book, "Pennsylvania Spirituals" (1962). Also included are materials about Yoder's other chief interest, the Evangelical United Brethren Church, and other items of general interest to folklorists.

• Series 6. Pictures
• Series 7. FT 5504-5510 (Southern Folklife Collection)