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Audio Recording Georgia Camp Meeting At a Georgia Camp Meeting

Georgia Camp Meeting

About this Item

Title

  • Georgia Camp Meeting

Other Title

  • At a Georgia Camp Meeting

Names

  • Jabbour, Alan (Transcriber)
  • Mills, Kerry, 1869-1948 (Composer)
  • Jabbour, Alan (Collector)
  • Reed, Henry, 1884-1968 (Performer)

Created / Published

  • Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia, August 27, 1966

Headings

  • -  Instrumental music
  • -  Fiddle tunes
  • -  Folk music--Appalachian Region
  • -  Ragtime music
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Music
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  United States -- Virginia -- Giles County -- Glen Lyn

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Music
  • Field recordings

Notes

  • -  Key: D
  • -  Meter: 4/4
  • -  Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-8)
  • -  Rendition: 1r-2
  • -  Phrase Structure: ABAC QRQSR'TC
  • -  Compass: 8
  • -  Stylistic features: Syncopation patterns interesting. Recorded beginning with second strain, which sounds like a chorus in a ragtime song.
  • -  Composed by Kerry Mills, words & music, 1897
  • -  "Georgia Camp Meeting" was originally published in 1897 by Kerry Mills as "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" and became a turn-of-the-century classic. It was intended originally for the "cake-walk," a popular dance of the period; see Spaeth, A History of Popular Music in America, p. 284. Henry Reed's performance preserves the original emphasis of this and other ragtime-era tunes on a particular "snappy" syncopated pattern: (eighth note-quarter note-eighth note) or (sixteenth note-eighth note-sixteenth note).
  • -  Performed by Henry Reed, fiddle.
  • -  Spoken: HENRY REED: That's the "Georgia Camp Meeting."
  • -  Recording chronology: 042
  • -  Duration: 37 seconds

Medium

  • Audio tape

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1967/007: AFS 13035A31

Source Collection

  • Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

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

Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1 (AFC 1967/007), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 2 (AFC 1969/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Fiddle tunes of the old frontier: the Henry Reed collection online presentation (AFC 1999/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Jabbour, Alan, Kerry Mills, Alan Jabbour, and Henry Reed. Georgia Camp Meeting. Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia, 1966. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000112/.

APA citation style:

Jabbour, A., Mills, K., Jabbour, A. & Reed, H. (1966) Georgia Camp Meeting. Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000112/.

MLA citation style:

Jabbour, Alan, et al. Georgia Camp Meeting. Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia, 1966. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000112/>.