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BiographyStetson Kennedy (1911-2011) Biography. Stetson Kennedy, one of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the twentieth century, was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1916. As a teenager he began collecting Cracker and African-American folksay material while he was collecting "dollar down and dollar a week" accounts for his father, a furniture merchant. He left the University of Florida in 1937 to join the WPA...
- Contributor: Kennedy, Stetson
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ArticleRegional Song Sampler: The Southeast Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
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ArticleSeminole and Miccosukee Songs The Seminole people are related to the Creek tribes who once inhabited what is now Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. The indigenous peoples of Florida were greatly reduced in number as a result of illness from and conflicts with Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Intertribal and European-Indian conflicts caused a group of the southern Creeks to move south into Florida along with smaller...
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Notated MusicFirst to Berlin For voice and piano. "Respectfully dedicated to my first Commander, Capt, E.D. Vestal 124th Infantry 31st (Dixie) Division. The One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Infantry, Florida"--Page 2. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation.
- Contributor: Pooley, Alexander Beach
- Date: 1918
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ArticleBahamian American Song Poet James Weldon Johnson, who, with his brother, composer J. Rosamund Johnson, wrote the civil rights song, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing." [1] The brothers were born in Florida to an American father, James Johnson, and Helen Louise Dillet, a native of Nassau, Bahamas. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1932.
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ArticleSpanish 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...
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Audio RecordingHelleno-Americanike Nea Genia
Translated title: Greek-American New Generation- Contributor: Kennedy, Stetson - Anastassiou, George - Morris, Alton Chester - Cook, Robert Harrison
- Date: 1939-08-28
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Article" John Henry" Several versions of the ballad "John Henry" may be found in the collections of the American Folklife Center. The recordings available online include Arthur Bell singng the song while beating time as if hammering and Harold Hazelhurst singing "John Henry" as a work song for driving railroad spikes. The song probably originated as a work song, like these versions, for work involving the use...
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Audio RecordingI Heard a Sweet Robin
Sweet Robin, One Morning in May- Contributor: Kennedy, Stetson - Roberts, Wilbur - Cook, Robert Harrison
- Date: 1940-01-16
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Audio RecordingJump Isabel, Slide Water Comment
- Contributor: Kennedy, Stetson - Cook, Robert Harrison
- Date: 1939-08-14
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Notated MusicArcadia, "the aviation city of Fla." For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation.
- Contributor: Payne, Jack
- Date: 1919
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Notated MusicAmerica will fight for you For voice and piano. Manuscript in ink. Vocal line lacks words. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation.
- Contributor: Shaw, Florida
- Date: 1918
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BiographyWillis Laurence James (1900-1966) Biography. Willis Laurence James. Photo from The Peachite Vol. II, No. 2, Folk Festival Number, March 1944.
- Contributor: James, Willis
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ArticleItalian American Song The Italian American population numbers more than fourteen million through the fourth generation. The largest wave of immigrants (around four million) arrived in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century. The majority hailed from the largely overpopulated and poor central and southern parts of Italy, where the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign misrule,...
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ArticleSongs of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Migrants Poster for the Los Angeles production of Hall Johnnson's "Run, Little Chillun". Prints and Photographs Division POS-WPA-CA.01 .R96, no. 1 (H size). Select the link for more information and a larger image.
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ArticleSongs of the Temperance Movement and Prohibition "The Lips that Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine," sheet music by George T. Evans, 1874. Select the link to view the sheet music.
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ArticleGreek American Song Sophia Bilides and Mike Gregian performing Smyreika songs at the Library of Congress, August 24, 2011. Not pictured, Mal Barsamian.
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BiographyCharles Lafayette Todd (1911-2004) Biography. Charles "Lafe" Todd at the recording machine surrounded by a group of Mexican boys and men. Photo by Robert Hemmig, El Rio F.S.A. Camp, California, 1941. AFC 1985/001: P16.
- Contributor: Todd, Charles L.
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ArticleThe Chicano Civil Rights Movement AgustÃn Lira performing songs from the Chicano Civil Rights Movment at the Library of Congress, September 14, 2011. Select the link to view the webcast.
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialOver There Article. Over there, over there! Send the word, send the word, over there!
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2002
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ArticleBlues as Protest Prisoners at Cummins State Farm, Arkansas who were recorded by John Lomax in 1934, where he later recorded "I Don't Do Nobody Nothin" sung by C.W. "Preacher" Smith (A.K.A. Rev. Nathanial Hawkins) in 1939. Select the link for more information and a larger image.
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialVictory at Sea Article. In the fall of 1951 the NBC-Television executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver asked the well-known Broadway composer Richard Rodgers, "If you were approached to do some work for the United States Navy, we'd like your assurance that you wouldn't refuse to consider it." "Well, of course I wouldn't refuse to consider an offer from the United States Navy," Rodgers replied. It was six years...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2002
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Audio RecordingLet the Deal Go Down
- Contributor: Kennedy, Stetson - Halpert, Herbert - Hurston, Zora Neale
- Date: 1939-06-18