Scott Jackson and Pearl Bryant

Title

Digital Object

Alternate Titles

Pearl Bryant

Pearl Bryan

Performer

Begley, Nora May

Date Recorded

1937-09-07

AFS Number

1386B

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304

Editor Note

Followed by Lomax intro of the song and query of Nora May (whom he calls Norma). AFS card misspelled as "Bagley".."

Genre

ballad

Instrumentation

vocal

Setting

Pine Mountain settlement school

State

Kentucky

County

Harlan

Town

Pine Mountain

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 and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky collection

Citation

“Scott Jackson and Pearl Bryant,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 20, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/454.

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