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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
1404A1
Digital Object
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Date Recorded
1937-09-15
Alternate Titles
The House of the Rising Sun
Genre
lyric song
Performer
Turner, Georgia
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
Town
Middlesboro
County
Bell
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<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/books5">Originally:</a><br /><a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/books5"> Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. <span class="font17">Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads</span><span class="font16">. The Macmillan Company, 1941. <br />(Includes transcriptions.) <br /><br /></span></a>
<p>Currently as:<br />Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. Dover, 2000.</p>
<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/books1">Anthony, Ted. <span class="font7">Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song</span><span class="font6">. Simon & Schuster, 2007. (Includes a discussion of Alan and Elizabeth Lomax's 1937 trip to Kentucky where they recorded the song three times.)</span></a>
<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/articles14">Winick, Stephen. “Beef, Belles, Babies and Blues: Musical Arrangements Inspired by AFC Archival Materials.” <span class="font15">Folklife Center News</span><span class="font14">. Vol. 33, Nos. 1-2, Winter / Spring 2011. pp. 3-14. (Includes discussion of two pieces of music from this collection.)</span></a>
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Title
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The Rising Sun Blues
lyric song
vocal