John A. Lomax Southern States collection, 1937

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John A. Lomax Southern States collection, 1937

Abstract

Collection of field recordings of African American and Anglo-American religious songs, hymns, spirituals, play-party songs, ballads, folk songs, children's songs, fiddle tunes, work songs, field hollers, blues, and stories, from Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Texas, recorded by John A. Lomax and Ruby T. Lomax for the Archive of American Folk Song in June and July, 1937. Instrumentation includes fiddle, guitar, washboard, French harp, and accordion; solo and group singing, and storytelling. Includes recordings of "Plantation echoes, a folk play in three acts," written and directed by Rosa Warren Wilson, and sung and spoken by a group of Negroes from Wadmalaw Island, performed in Hibernian Hall, Charleston, S.C., July 16, 1937

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