Traditional Arts Indiana fieldworker Erin Roth interviewed Jim Cooper in 2002. The following sound files (with transcripts) are excerpts from this taped interview. Photos are by Rich Remsberg, except where noted in the caption, taken at Jim Cooper's workshop in 2002. The materials were then organized for this presentation by Folklore and Ethnomusicology students Christa Byler and Christine McKenna at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

 Photographer Rich Remsberg (left) and folklorist Erin Roth (right)