Maine Folklife Center

Linda Gilbert Davenport, Collector

Linda Gilbert Davenport was a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her Master’s Thesis, entitled “Music Among the Contemporary Penobscot Indians,” focused on the musical culture of the contemporary Penobscot Indians of Old Town, Maine. Her research is available at the Maine Folklife Center as MF 084 Linda Gilbert Davenport Collection. She received a B.S. from the University of Maine in 1973 and a Master of Music in Musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977.