Manuscript/Mixed Material 1939 Southern Recording Trip Report
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Image 1 of 1939 Southern Recording Trip Report 1 Report of J. A. Lomax 1939 So. Rec. Trip Spring From February 8,1939 until June i4,1939,I made a ballad-collecting criss-cross trip of 6502 miles through Texas,Louisiana,Mississippi,Alabama,Florida,Georgia,South Carolina , {Begin deleted text}and{End…
- Contributor: Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1939
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Image 2 of 1939 Southern Recording Trip Report 2 the experiences of migratory Mexican cotton pickers. In addition,we made records of a group of tuneful Mexican lullabies,the music of some running back to songs current in Spain four hundred years…
- Contributor: Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1939
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Image 3 of 1939 Southern Recording Trip Report 3 religious Mexican folk play, The Good Thief, as well as some family songs preserved by the musically gifted group,consisting of the father,the mother and ten children. From a Negro,Henry Truvillion,who lives…
- Contributor: Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1939
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Image 4 of 1939 Southern Recording Trip Report 4 Mrs. Emma Floyd sang for us more of the songs that she had learned as a child in the mountains of North Carolina. The trip yielded,moreover, an enlarged group of Negro…
- Contributor: Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1939