Collection Items

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    Audio Recording
    Mississippi Blues sound recording | 1 sound recording | Published on Library of Congress LP AFS L59, "Negro Blues and Hollers," edited by Marshall W. Stearns. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in 1942. (Date). Recorded at Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas. (Venue). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, Alan - Brown, William
    • Date: 1962
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    Mississippi stoker sound recording | 1 sound disc: analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 10 in. | "Orchestra Accompaniment" (Content). Mx: 3557-3-21 Recorded c. November 1906 Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Williams, Bert - Columbia
    • Date: 1907
  • Audio Recording
    Bad Man Ballad
    Mississippi Bad Man Ballad
    • Contributor: Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Rayford, Willie
    • Date: 1939-05-21
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    The United States Needs Prayer, Everywhere sound recording | 1 disc. | Sung by Lulu Morris and members of the congregation of the African Methodist Church, Tupelo, Mississippi. (Venue). John and Ruby Lomax Southern Recording Trip 1939 Collection (Source Note). She says that it was composed by Sister McCreasy McKissick. Recorded by Herbert Halpert, May 1939 (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - McKissick, McCreasy - Morris, Lulu
  • Audio Recording
    Shine and the Titanic sound recording | 1 sound recording | Forms part of the The Library of Congress / Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection. (Source). Recorded in Clarksdale, Mississippi. (Venue). Recorded in 1942. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Lomax, Alan - King, O. C.
  • Article
    Regional Song Sampler: The Southeast Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
  • Audio Recording
    Amazing grace sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, mono. | Recorded at a schoolhouse in Vancleave, Mississippi (Venue). Recorded by Herbert Halpert on June 9, 1939 (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Group of Adults
  • Audio Recording
    Worried Life Blues sound recording | 1 sound recording | Recorded in Clarksdale, Mississippi. (Venue). Recorded in 1942. (Date). Published on Library of Congress LP AFS L59, "Negro Blues and Hollers," edited by Marshall W. Stearns. Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Edwards, Honeyboy - Library of Congress
    • Date: 1962
  • Audio Recording
    Depot Blues sound recording | 1 sound recording | Published on Library of Congress LP AFS L59, "Negro Blues and Hollers," edited by Marshall W. Stearns. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Robinsonville, Mississippi. (Venue). Recorded in 1942. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - House, Son
    • Date: 1962
  • Audio Recording
    Low Down, Dirty Dog Blues sound recording | 1 sound recording | Published on Library of Congress LP AFS L59, "Negro Blues and Hollers," edited by Marshall W. Stearns. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Robinsonville, Mississippi. (Venue). Recorded in 1942. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - House, Son
    • Date: 1962
  • Audio Recording
    Amazing grace sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, mono. | Recorded in Byhalia, Mississippi (Venue). Recorded by Herbert Halpert on May 13, 1939 (Date). Courtesy of Lavern Shipp Baldwin, LavBaldwin@aol.com. (Copyright Notice). Courtesy of Lavern Shipp Baldwin, LavBaldwin@aol.com. (Copyright Notice). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Shipp, Mary
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    Calling Trains sound recording | 1 sound recording | First pubished on Library of Congress LP AFS L61 "Railroad Songs and Ballads," edited by Archie Green. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in 1936. (Date). Recorded at State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi. (Venue). This railroad call is performed by an unidentified former railroad train caller. (Content). John A. Lomax Southern States Collection, 1933-1937 (Source). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
    • Date: 1968
  • Biography
    John Avery Lomax (1867-1948) Biography. John Avery Lomax was born in Goodman, Mississippi, on September 23, 1867, and grew up on the Texas frontier, just north of Meridian in rural Bosque County. A Texan at heart, if not by birth, his early years on the family farm accustomed him to the hard work that, along with a boundless energy, became a hallmark of his life and career.
    • Contributor: Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
  • Article
    Omaha Indian Song Before European settlement, the Omaha were one of several tribes that inhabited the Missouri River basin. They were descended from Woodlands tribes east of the Mississippi River who had migrated westward as a result of conflicts with other tribes. The present day reservation is in Nebraska. Mainly a settled agricultural people, they became mobile only during summer bison hunts. The Omaha largely controlled the...
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    Spanish American Song Spain was the first European power to establish an empire in the New World. This had an impact on the regions that later became part of the United States, as Spain established colonies and laid claim to much of the land west of the Mississippi River, along with Florida and Puerto Rico. Spanish settlement of North America began in the sixteenth century and immigration...
  • Biography
    William Grant Still, 1895-1978 Biography. Known as the "Dean of African-American Composers," William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, where his mother was a high school English teacher. He began to study the violin at age 14 and taught himself to play a number of other instruments, excelling at the cello and oboe. In 1911, Still entered Wilberforce University in Ohio...
  • Biography
    Lewis Wade Jones (1910-1979) Biography. Louis Wade Jones. Photo from The Peachite Vol. II, No. 2, Folk Festival Number, March 1944.
    • Contributor: Jones, Lewis Wade
  • Biography
    John Wesley Work, III (1901-1967) Biography. John Wesley Work III. Photo from The Peachite Vol. II, No. 2, Folk Festival Number, March 1944.
    • Contributor: Work, John W. (John Wesley)
  • Audio Recording
    Catfish Blues
    Rollin' Stone     Played and sung by Honeyboy Edwards at the 50th Anniversary Concert for the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1978. sound recording | 1 reel. | Recorded at the Archive of Folk Song 50th Anniversary Concert, Library of Congress. (Venue). At the beginning of this recording, Edwards acknowledges Alan Lomax, who is sitting in the audience. Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Edwards, Honeyboy - Library of Congress - Petway, Robert
    • Date: 1978
  • Article
    French American Song The songs and music of French Americans are tied to a complex history, which resulted in a diaspora of French-speaking people in several regions of what is now the United States. The story is further complicated through contact among French-speaking people of different histories, as well as subsequent contact with settlers from other countries and their descendants.
  • Biography
    Willis Laurence James (1900-1966) Biography. Willis Laurence James. Photo from The Peachite Vol. II, No. 2, Folk Festival Number, March 1944.
    • Contributor: James, Willis
  • Article
    Regional Song Sampler: The Midwest Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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    The American Art Song: An Introduction Article. Article. I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; ... Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. -- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855)
  • Biography
    Amy Beach (1867-1944) Biography. Biography. Amy Marcy Cheney was born on September 5, 1867 in Henniker, New Hampshire, to a prominent New England family. Her mother, Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney, was a talented amateur singer and pianist. Young Amy was a true prodigy who memorized forty songs at the age of one and taught herself to read at age three. She played four-part hymns and composed simple...
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    The African American Civil Rights Movement We Shall Overcome. Booklet cover from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Select the link for more information. Prints and Photographs LC-USZC4-6525.