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Pearl Bryant

Title

Pearl Bryant

Digital Object

Alternate Titles

Pearl Bryan

Performer

Steele, Lillie

Date Recorded

1938-03-29

AFS Number

1706B2

AFC Collection

AFC 1938/004

AFC Catalog Record

http://lccn.loc.gov/2009655410

Genre

ballad

Instrumentation

vocal

State

Ohio

County

Butler

Town

Hamilton

Is Referenced by

Cohen, Anne B. Poor Pearl, Poor Girl! The Murdered-Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper. Published for the American Folklore Society by The University of Texas Press. 1973. (Study of the ballad of Pearl Bryan; there are several recordings of the song in the collection.)

Purnell, Janice. “'Pearl Bryan' and 'The Jealous Lover'.” Kentucky Folklore Record. Vol. 12, No. 1, 1966. pp. 1-3. (The collection includes several recordings of both songs in the collection.)

Collection

Alan Lomax Ohio and Indiana collection

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Citation

“Pearl Bryant,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed June 18, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/157.

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