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Norman Laird (Brownie) McNeil Music Collection
Professor Norman Laird (Brownie) McNeil was a folklorist, scholar, and educator who studied and collected the ballads and literature of the Mexican people in South Texas. The collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, literary productions, newspaper clippings, photographs, printed materials, and sound recordings of corridos, ballads, and folk songs of Texas and Mexico, as well as articles and manuscripts on curanderos and folk medicine in South Texas.