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Audio Recording Interview with Reverend Iberus Hacker on his biography, the Appalachian region and artists, and the Great American Coffee House, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Interview with Reverend Iberus Hacker on his biography, the Appalachian region and artists, and the Great American Coffee House, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

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Title

  • Interview with Reverend Iberus Hacker on his biography, the Appalachian region and artists, and the Great American Coffee House, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Names

  • Browning, Rebecca (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)
  • Hacker, Iberus (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, April 15, 1977

Headings

  • -  Southerners (United States)
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Iberus Hacker #1, part 1
  • -  Part 1 of a 3-part interview with Rev. Iberus Hacker at the North American Coffee House, 2918 N. Lincoln Ave in the Lake View neighborhood; about blues artists like Homesick James, and comments about artists and festivals, mentions Lee Jackson; about the All Night Blues Jam; about organizations like the Rainbow Coalition, Uptown Community Organization, Appalachian Cultural Exchange; Hacker from Clay County KY; about Clay county politics; Hacker was raised in a conservative part of Tennessee, motivated by Christian aspects of the Civil Rights movement, sees cities as being in crisis, verge of collapse, people are afraid of neighbors; Hackers hopes the coffee shop will bridge communities, have church service and various secular music and stand-up performances; about the people with Appalachian heritage, most in their 50s, many families came in the 1940s and 1950s, 10 percent in poverty, about class structures and effect of mass culture; how bars are segregated in Chicago, seeks to have a place that is not segregated.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20773a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0777
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T249-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Browning, Rebecca, Carl Fleischhauer, and Iberus Hacker. Interview with Reverend Iberus Hacker on his biography, the Appalachian region and artists, and the Great American Coffee House, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20773a/.

APA citation style:

Browning, R., Fleischhauer, C. & Hacker, I. (1977) Interview with Reverend Iberus Hacker on his biography, the Appalachian region and artists, and the Great American Coffee House, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20773a/.

MLA citation style:

Browning, Rebecca, Carl Fleischhauer, and Iberus Hacker. Interview with Reverend Iberus Hacker on his biography, the Appalachian region and artists, and the Great American Coffee House, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20773a/>.