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Title
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Alan and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky collection
Identifier
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AFC 1937/001
Abstract
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A collection of field recordings made on Presto discs by Alan Lomax and his wife Elizabeth Lomax in eastern Kentucky in September and October 1937 for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. The collection includes folk songs, ballads, hymns, camp meeting songs, union songs, coal miners' songs, blues, children's songs, stories; banjo, harmonica, guitar, and dulcimer music; and a large number of fiddle tunes.
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<a href="http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304">AFC 1937/001</a>
Alan Lomax Recording
AFC Catalog Record
<a href="http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304">http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304</a>
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFS Number
1399B
Digital Object
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Date Recorded
1937-09-09
Genre
sacred song
lining hymn
Performer
Hall, Arnie
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
Town
Pine Mountain
County
Harlan
Editor Note
Sung as a solo lining hymn. Lomax misheard singer's name as "Arnie."
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In that Dear Old Village Churchyard
lining hymn
sacred song
vocal
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Dublin Core
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John A. Lomax Southern States collection, 1937
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AFC 1937/007
Abstract
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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
References
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<a href="http://lccn.loc.gov/2009655426">AFC 1937/007 </a>
Alan Lomax Recording
AFC Catalog Record
<a href="http://lccn.loc.gov/2009655426">http://lccn.loc.gov/2009655426</a>
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/007
AFS Number
1015A1
Digital Object
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Date Recorded
1937-06-29
Genre
lining hymn
Performer
Caldwell, Vincent
Unidentified
Instrumentation
vocal
Setting
At the home of Jean Thomas
State
Kentucky
Town
Ashland
County
Boyd
Editor Note
Identified on AFS card by first line: "A story most pleasing I'll tell." Other singers unidentified.
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The Crucifixion of Christ
lining hymn
vocal