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Film, Video Sam McGee's Railroad Blues & Other Versions of the Republic

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • Sam McGee's Railroad Blues & Other Versions of the Republic

Summary

  • Greil Marcus excavates a few roots of the American Songbook, examining a handful of indelible and idiosyncratic country, religious or blues songs from the 1920s and their modern revisions.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Music Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2010-10-21.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education
  • -  Performing Arts, Music
  • -  Railroad Blues, Pop Music, Idiosyncracy, religious

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Greil Marcus.
  • -  Recorded on 2010-10-21.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688549

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Sam McGee's Railroad Blues & Other Versions of the Republic. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-21, 2010. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688549/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Music Division, S. B. (2010) Sam McGee's Railroad Blues & Other Versions of the Republic. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-21. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688549/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Sam McGee's Railroad Blues & Other Versions of the Republic. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-21, 2010. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688549/>.