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Audio Recording Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (17 July 1977), part 1

Royal singing convention, Mystic, Georgia, side A

About this Item

Title

  • Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (17 July 1977), part 1

Names

  • Adler, Thomas A. (Collector)

Created / Published

  • Mystic, Georgia, July 17, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Songs
  • -  Music
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Mystic

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Songs
  • Music
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  The folklife project team produced multiple sound recordings with overlapping content at the Royal Singing Convention. On Saturday, 16 July 1977, David Stanley recorded performances and announcements on 4 audiocassettes (3 on two sides, 1 on one side, total 3.5 hours) titled "Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (16 July 1977), part [numbers]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21173 through AFS 21176 (side A). Also on Saturday, Thomas A. Adler recorded one open-reel tape (30 minutes) with test recordings that include portions of some performances, titled "Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (16 July 1977), technical test segments," identified by call number AFC 1982/010: AFS 20874. On Sunday, 17 July 1977, Thomas A. Adler recorded performances and announcements on seven open-reel recordings (about 3 hours) titled "Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (17 July 1977), part [number]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 20875 through AFS 20881. Also on Sunday, David Stanley recorded interviews with participants on 3 audiocassettes (1 on one side, 2 on two sides, total 2.5 hours) titled "Interviews, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (17 July 1977), part [numbers]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21176 (side B) through AFS 21178. Also on Sunday, William E. Lightfoot produced three audiocassette recordings (2 on two sides, 1 on one side, total 2.5 hours) titled "Interviews and selected performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, part [numbers]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 20997 through AFS 20999. In addition, Thomas A. Adler produced three video recordings (dates inconsistent in documentation, may have been 16 and-or 17 July 1977) carrying field project identifiers GA7-V1, GA7-V2, and a portion of GA7-V3.
  • -  Part 1 of an 7-part series of recordings made at the Royal Singing Convention; Mystic, GA (Sunday, 17 July 1977), the fieldworker's log makes note of the imperfect microphone placement and the resulting prominence of the sound of birds nesting in the tabernacle's rafters: selections include fragment of Amazing Grace; voice of fieldworker and project leader Rusty Marshall explaining about the folklife project; a devotional prayer offered by a convention leader; hymn "Hold to God's Unchanging Hand"; hymns identified by number in the log (reference to a unidentified hymnal), including numbers 27, 10, and 74; followed by "Rest my weary feet," described as by a local composer; and "Hallelujah Square."

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20875
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 1532
  • Field project identifier: GA7-TA-R2

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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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:

Adler, Thomas A. Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia 17 July , part 1. Mystic, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20875/.

APA citation style:

Adler, T. A. (1977) Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia 17 July , part 1. Mystic, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20875/.

MLA citation style:

Adler, Thomas A. Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia 17 July , part 1. Mystic, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20875/>.