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Coal Creek March

Title

Coal Creek March

Digital Object

Performer

Steele, Pete

Date Recorded

1938-03-29

AFS Number

1703A

AFC Collection

AFC 1938/004

AFC Catalog Record

http://lccn.loc.gov/2009655410

Editor Note

Discussion follows about provenance of the march^ the Coal Creek explosion^ and his banjo tuning.

Genre

banjo tune

Instrumentation

banjo

State

Ohio

County

Butler

Town

Hamilton

Is Referenced by

Wade, Stephen. The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. University of Illinois Press, 2012. (Includes extensive and in-depth chapters on three Kentucky musicians and one of their performances recorded by Alan Lomax: Pete Steele, William Hamilton (W.H.) Stepp, and Luther Strong.)

Review: Olson, Ted. The Old-Time Herald. Vol. 13, No. 11, 2014. p. 40.

Rosenberg, Neil V. "'An Icy Mountain Brook': Revival, Aesthetics, and the 'Coal Creek March.'" Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 28, No. 2/3. Special Double Issue: Labor Song: A Reappraisal, May - Dec., 1991, pp. 221-240. (Includes a case study of “Coal Creek March” as played on banjo by Pete Steele.)

Wolfe, Charles. “New Light on 'The Coal Creek March.'” JEMF Quarterly. Vo1. 12, No. 1, Spring 1976. p. 1-6. (Includes information on "Coal Creek March" as played several Kentucky musicians including Pete Steele on five-string banjo.)

Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes and Spirituals. Edited by Alan Lomax. AFS L2, 1942. LP.

A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings. Edited by Stephen Wade. Rounder Records, CD 1500, 1997.

Collection

Alan Lomax Ohio and Indiana collection

Tags

banjo, banjo tune

Citation

“Coal Creek March,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 25, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/146.

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