John Harrington Cox (1863-1945) was a pioneer in American folk song scholarship. In 1913, he began collecting folk songs, and within two years he presided over the founding of the West Virginia Folklore Society, serving as its first president, archivist, and editor. By 1925 he published Folk-Songs of the South, the first major collection of American folk songs by an American editor, and he continued to collect folk songs for archive and publication until his death. Alan Jabbour is a folklorist and folk music specialist. His work with fiddler Henry Reed and other fiddlers has made the older repertory of West Virginia fiddle tunes loom large in the contemporary instrumental folk music revival. The Library of Congress has published a website featuring his entire Henry Reed Collection. His work with the Hammons Family in Pocahontas County, WV, has resulted in several publications about this family's contributions to the reservoir of folksong, folk music, and folklore.
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