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Audio Recording Fire in the Mountain

Fire in the Mountain

About this Item

Title

  • Fire in the Mountain

Names

  • Corse, Carita Doggett, b. 1892 (Collector)
  • Cornwall, Robert (Collector)
  • Cornwall, Robert (Speaker)
  • Albritton, G. G. (Speaker)
  • Albritton, G. G. (Performer)
  • O'Berry, Cleo Wynn (Performer)

Created / Published

  • Sebring, Florida

Headings

  • -  Instrumental music
  • -  Fiddle tunes
  • -  Dance music
  • -  United States -- Florida -- Highlands County -- Sebring

Genre

  • Instrumental music

Notes

  • -  Performer referred to elsewhere as C. W. O'Berry
  • -  A square dance tune, learned on the Calusa Hatchee River. Straws are foot-long fiddle sticks whittled out of fat pine. Albritton and O'Berry say that their ancestors have been Southern fiddlers for several generations. Both are of Scotch-Irish descent. Only one fiddle was used; Albritton used the bow and O'Berry beat the strings with his two straws.
  • -  Performance Note: "Fire in the Mountain" (fiddle with straws) performed by G. G. Albritton, fiddle, and Cleo Wynn (C. W.) O'Berry, straws, at Sebring, Florida, on July 26, 1940.

Medium

  • Sound disc : analog ; 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1940/011: AFS 03902 B01

Source Collection

  • Florida WPA Recordings, 1940 (AFC 1940/011)

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:

  • Resettlement Administration Recordings Collection (AFC 1939/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Stetson Kennedy and Robert Cook Florida WPA Recordings (AFC 1939/013), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Alton C. Morris Florida WPA recordings (AFC 1939/026), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Florida WPA Recordings, 1940 (AFC 1940/011), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center correspondence files, 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:

Corse, Carita Doggett, B. 1892, Robert Cornwall, Robert Cornwall, G. G Albritton, G. G Albritton, and Cleo Wynn O'Berry. Fire in the Mountain. Sebring, Florida, 1940. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/flwpa000380/.

APA citation style:

Corse, C. D., Cornwall, R., Cornwall, R., Albritton, G. G., Albritton, G. G. & O'Berry, C. W. (1940) Fire in the Mountain. Sebring, Florida. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/flwpa000380/.

MLA citation style:

Corse, Carita Doggett, B. 1892, et al. Fire in the Mountain. Sebring, Florida, 1940. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/flwpa000380/>.