ABSTRACT
Australian authority on American country and western music, and collector of more than 2,000 records of the period 1923-1941. He died in an automobile accident. His will directed that those recordings be sent to the U.S. for research purposes, and the material was eventually housed at the University of California at Los Angeles. The John Edwards Memorial Foundation was established in 1962 to administer the archive, which grew to more than 12,000 records and included sheet music and instruments of famous performers. In 1983, the University of North Carolina (UNC) purchased the John Edwards Memorial Collection, and in the fall of 1986, the UNC Folklore Archives and the JEMF were combined to form the Southern Folklife Collection, a component of the manuscripts department of the UNC-Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library. The Southern Folklife Collection was officially opened for research during the “Sounds of the South” conference at UNC in April 1989. A periodical, the JEMF Quarterly (originally Newsletter), was issued from 1965 to 1989; then a new journal replaced it: American Vernacular Music. [Website: www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/sabout.html.]
The ratio of output power (or energy) to input. In an electronic power amplifier, the ratio of the output power to the power drawn from the mains (alternating current source).
