Item Detail
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
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John Berquist Slovenian Recordings Collection
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John Berquist (1947-2016) was a musician, composer, storyteller and folklorist from Eveleth, Minnesota. He wrote and sang songs about the people of the Iron Range area of Minnesota: miners, lumberjacks, and immigrants from Scandinavian and Slavic regions. He was well known as a storyteller and a master of the Scandihoovian dialect. His wife, Carol Hepokoski, said of Berquist, Growing up in Eveleth, I think he liked to say he learned to swear in six languages. The collection features interviews and performances recorded for the Slovenian Button Box Accordion Project in 1984. Part oral history, part music history, the project documents the lives and musical languages of several accordion players of the Iron Range. The collection includes photographs and maps from the project. This digital collection of curated selections includes 32 field recordings with accompanying notes, and 55 photographs and maps. The materials, along with others from a larger Minnesota Folk Arts Program Collection, form part of the John Berquist Collection at the Mills Music Library. (from the website)
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Website
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Madison, Wis.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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English
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Internet
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