Gabriel Brown and Rochelle French, Eatonville, Florida, June 1935. About this image
|| About the Collection ||
This multiformat ethnographic field collection includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song, and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately twenty-five hours of folk music from more than 300 performers. These recordings represent a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs.
|| Teacher Resources ||
- Collection Connection
- Lesson Plan: Exploring Cultural Rituals
- Lesson Plan: Nature's Fury
- Themed Resources: Music and Dance
|| Collection Details ||
General
- Span Dates
- 1939
- Major Language(s)
- English, Spanish
- Repository
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Contents
- Sound recordings (686 titles), photographs (381), field notes, correspondence, 37 song text transcriptions, 104 dust jackets.
Access/Copyright
- Copyright Info
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lores.html
- Preferred Citation
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
