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Audio Recording We done quit

We done quit

About this Item

Title

  • We done quit

Names

  • Johnson, Sam (singer)
  • Korson, George Gershon, 1899-1967

Created / Published

  • Library of Congress, 1965.

Headings

  • -  Coal miners
  • -  Labor unions
  • -  Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining
  • -  West Virginia
  • -  Blures (Music)
  • -  Social Change
  • -  Songs and Music
  • -  contemporary america (1945-present)

Notes

  • -  Forms part of the George Korson Bituminous Songs Collection. AFC 1963/004: AFS 12010-12012 (source)
  • -  Published on the Library of Congress LP L60 "Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners," 1965. (bibliographic history)
  • -  Recorded at Scott's Run, West Virginia. (venue)
  • -  Recorded in 1940. (date)
  • -  This song was sung by Scott's Run, West Virginia coal miners during the 1930 strike. (Content)
  • -  This song is sung to the tune of the African American spiritual "I can tell the world." (Content)

Form

  • sound recording

Extent

  • 1 sound recording

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

LC Classification

  • AFC 1963/004: AFS12010

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Johnson, Sam, and George Gershon Korson. We Done Quit. Library of Congress, 1965. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197196/.

APA citation style:

Johnson, S. & Korson, G. G. (1965) We Done Quit. Library of Congress. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197196/.

MLA citation style:

Johnson, Sam, and George Gershon Korson. We Done Quit. Library of Congress, 1965. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197196/>.