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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
1536A2
Digital Object
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Date Recorded
1937-10-18
Genre
fiddle tune
Performer
Strong, Luther
Instrumentation
fiddle
State
Kentucky
Town
Hazard
County
Perry
Is Referenced by
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<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/books7">Titon, Jeff Todd. <span class="font17">Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tune</span><span class="font16">s. University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Book and CD. (Includes general history of fiddling in Kentucky as well as biographies and tune transcriptions of several fiddlers in this collection.)</span></a>
<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/books8">Wade, Stephen. The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience<span class="font10">. 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.)</span></a>
<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/recordings11">A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings. </a><span class="font7"><a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/recordings11">Edited by Stephen Wade. Rounder Records, CD 1500, 1997. </a> </span>
<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/recordings16">Music of Kentucky: <span class="font10">Early American Rural Classics 1927-37</span></a><span class="font9"><a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/recordings16">. Edited by Guthrie Meade and Richard Nevins. Yazoo 2013 and 2014, 1995. Set of 2 CD's. </a> </span>
<a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/recordings2">Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes and Spirituals. </a><span class="font7"><a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/recordings2">Edited by Alan Lomax. AFS L2, 1942. LP.</a> <br /></span>
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Title
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Glory In the Meeting House
fiddle
fiddle tune