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Photo, Print, Drawing Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Mystic, Georgia, July 16, 1977 - July 17, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Mystic

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  The fieldworker's notes add, "The event (two-day affair) was recorded, documented by [fieldworkers] Marshall, Stanley, Adler, and Lightfoot working as a team. Marshall mostly took pictures and ran the mono Nagra tape recorder, Stanley and Lightfoot mostly
  • -  Frame numbers and descriptions: at the Royal Singing Convention in the Royal Singing Tabernacle, Mystic GA (16 July 1977): 003-004, attendees in the tabernacle; 005-007, attendees in the tabernacle and singers on stage; 008-009, attendees in the tabernacle; 010-011, attendees in the tabernacle and singers on stage; 012, quartet performing; 013-016, performance by the Bobby Taylor family, fieldworker's notes adds "Rancil (R.C.) Taylor"; 017-018, song with bass voices leading; 019, solo vocal by Wayne Hilliard; 020, child in audience (grandmotherly woman holds an infant); 021-022, singer Fred Johns "cutting up"; 023, attendees; 024-025, Erston Royal, organization president, greeting people, fieldworker Howard (Rusty) Marshall at left in both frames, fieldworker Thomas Adler at left, facing camera, in 025; 026-028, watermelon served after the singing, pictured are Idus Spivey, left, and Zebedee Parsons; 029, women with watermelons; at the Royal Singing Convention in the Royal Singing Tabernacle, Mystic GA (17 July 1977): 030-031, at the Sunday morning event, left to right, Mrs. Beckham, Mrs. Ruby Tomlin, Mrs. Mattie Spearman; 032-033, man holding a postcard that depicts a scene from the 1916 Royal Singing Convention; 034-036, song directors and pianists, in 036, left to right, unidentified, Wayne Hilliard, Dale Spivey, Guy Yarborough, and Mr. Doss, with Forrest Breckinridge on piano at left, Fred Johns seated at piano at right; 037, Fred Johns.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 2-17382

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Stanley, David, and David Stanley. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Mystic Georgia Irwin County United States, 1977. Mystic, Georgia, - July 17, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_2/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. & Stanley, D. (1977) Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Mystic Georgia Irwin County United States, 1977. Mystic, Georgia, - July 17, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_2/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David, and David Stanley. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Mystic, Georgia, - July 17, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_2/>.