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Audio Recording Negro blues and hollers

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Title

  • Negro blues and hollers

Names

  • Stearns, Marshall Winslow, compiler
  • Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002, recordist
  • Work, John W. (John Wesley), 1901-1967, recordist
  • Jones, Lewis Wade, 1910-1979, recordist
  • House, Son, performer
  • Edwards, Honeyboy, performer
  • Martin, Fiddlin' Joe, 1900-1975, performer
  • Fisk University, sponsor
  • Archive of Folk Song (U.S.), sponsor
  • Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, 2015.
  • [Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory AFS L59, 1962.

Contents

  • Camp hollers / Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin -- Cornfield hollers / sung by Charley Berry -- I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord / sung by the congregation of Silent Grove Baptist Church, Clarksdale, Mississippi with trombone and guitar -- I'm gonna lift up a standard for my King / sung by the congregation of the Church of God in Christ, Lula, Mississippi -- Worried life blues / sung by David Edwards with guitar -- Ragged and dirty / sung by William Brown with guitar -- Special rider blues / sung and played by Son House with guitar -- Depot blues / sung and played by Son House with guitar -- Mississippi blues / sung by William Brown with guitar -- Four o'clock flower blues / sung and played by Willie Blackwell and William Brown with guitar -- East St. Louis blues / sung by William Brown with guitar -- Low down, dirty dog blues / sung and played by Son House with guitar.

Headings

  • -  Blues (Music)--1931-1940--Mississippi--Delta (Region)
  • -  Blues (Music)--1941-1950--Mississippi--Delta (Region)
  • -  African Americans--Mississippi--Delta (Region)--Music
  • -  African Americans--Arkansas--Music

Genre

  • Blues (Music)
  • Gospel music
  • Songs
  • Field hollers
  • Field recordings

Notes

  • -  Sung by various musicians, principally with guitar accompaniment, including Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Charley Berry, William Blackwell, William Brown, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation, Church of God in Christ congregation.
  • -  Recorded originally in Clarksdale, Lula, and Robinsonville, Mississippi and at Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1941-1942 by Alan Lomax, John W. Work, and Lewis Jones for a study jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and Fisk University of Nashville, Tennessee.
  • -  Descriptive notes by the editor and texts (17 p.).
  • -  Description from audio disc recording, analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in. first issued on LP in 1962.
  • -  Digital preservation master recorded from original master analog tape by the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory in 2015.
  • -  Original master for audio disc production for reissue of AFS L59: NEGRO BLUES AND HOLLERS (MASTER TAPE) 2 sound tape reels : analog, 15 ips, full track, mono. ; 10 in. RAA 27153, RAA 27154. MAVIS title no.: 162692-4; 162692-5-1; 162692-5-2

Medium

  • 2 sound files : digital, WAV (44.1 Khz)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540 to 4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016655241

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  • image
  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Lomax, Alan, Recordist, John W Work, Lewis Wade Jones, Sponsor Fisk University, U.S Archive Of Folk Song, and Library Of Congress. Recording Laboratory. Negro Blues and Hollers. composeds by Stearns, Marshall Winslowiler, performeds by House, Son, Edwards, Honeyboy, and Martin, Fiddlin' Joe [Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, . Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory AFS L59, 1962, 2015] Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655241/.

APA citation style:

Lomax, A., Work, J. W., Jones, L. W., Fisk University, S., Archive Of Folk Song, U. S. & Library Of Congress. Recording Laboratory. (2015) Negro Blues and Hollers. Stearns, M. W., comp, House, S., Edwards, H. & Martin, F. J., performers [Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, . Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory AFS L59, 1962] [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655241/.

MLA citation style:

Lomax, Alan, Recordist, et al. Negro Blues and Hollers. comp by Stearns, Marshall Winslowiler, performer by House, Son, Edwards, Honeyboy, and Martin, Fiddlin' Joe [Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, . Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory AFS L59, 1962, 2015] Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655241/>.