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Audio Recording Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, Louisiana, 1940

Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, Louisiana, 1940

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About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, Louisiana, 1940

Names

  • Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
  • Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
  • Ledbetter, Bob, 1861-

Created / Published

  • Oil City, Louisiana, 1940

Headings

  • -  Literacy
  • -  African Americans--Louisiana--Music
  • -  African Americans--Social conditions
  • -  Slave narratives--Louisiana
  • -  Variation of Old Man Tucker (Song)
  • -  No soap, No starch (Song)
  • -  I'm Going Home (Song)
  • -  Field hollers
  • -  Hollering
  • -  Freedmen--Louisiana
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Songs
  • -  United States -- Louisiana -- Caddo County -- Oil City

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Field recordings
  • Songs

Notes

  • -  Recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax, Oil City, Louisiana, 1940.

Medium

  • 1 sound disc : analog, 78 rpm; 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1940/003: AFS 03992A

Source Collection

  • John and Ruby Lomax 1940 southern states recordings collection (AFC 1940/003)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio
  • online text
  • pdf

Rights & Access

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Credit line

Please cite the source collection title, collection number, and repository, for example:

  • Alan Lomax, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle Expedition Collection (AFC 1935/001), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • John and Ruby Lomax 1940 Southern States Recordings Collection (AFC 1940/003), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress and Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection, 1941-1943 (AFC 1941/002), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • John Henry Faulk Recordings of Negro Religious Services. Part 3 (AFC 1941/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey Collection (AFC 1941/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Hampton Institute Duplication Project (AFC 1948/015), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Cyrus B. Koonce Collection (AFC 1950/037), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Elmer E. Sparks interview with Celia Black (AFC 1975/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Elmer E. Sparks interview with Charlie Smith (AFC 1975/023), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • American Dialect Society Collection (AFC 1984/011), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Lomax, John A, Ruby T Lomax, and Bob Ledbetter. Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, Louisiana. Oil City, Louisiana, 1940. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1940003_afs03992a/.

APA citation style:

Lomax, J. A., Lomax, R. T. & Ledbetter, B. (1940) Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, Louisiana. Oil City, Louisiana. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1940003_afs03992a/.

MLA citation style:

Lomax, John A, Ruby T Lomax, and Bob Ledbetter. Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, Louisiana. Oil City, Louisiana, 1940. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1940003_afs03992a/>.