- Collection:
- Laurel Falls Camp-Recordings
- Title:
- Sound recording of a longer version of the Drums play, LS01_093
- Creator:
- Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966
- Date of Original:
- 1925/1949
- Subject:
- Laurel Falls Camp for Girls (Ga.)
Camps--Georgia--Rabun County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Clayton, 34.87815, -83.40099
- Medium:
- lacquer discs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Some imagery and language may be offensive by modern standards. A woman is performing a play about the plight of African Americans with drum accompaniment. A woman singing various spirituals is interspersed: I'm Trampin, Trying to Make Heaven My Home; That Lonesome Road; Working on the Chain Gang; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. This track is an excerpt from a longer play written by campers and counselors named Drums. The full text is available as part of an article by Lillian Smith - Behind the Drums - that appeared in the North Georgia Review, vol. 4, nos. 2-3, Autumn 1939.
Side A: 1 segment of woman performing dramatized play with drum in background, followed by woman singing The Lonesome Road. Side B: 1 segment of woman performing dramatized play with drum in background, followed by woman singing The St. Louis Blues, followed by several women singing Lift Every Voice and Sing. Additional 1 segment of single woman singing Lift Every Voice and Sing. Handwritten on Disc Labels/Container: Drums I; Drums 4.
Digitization of the audio recordings of the Laurel Falls Camp collection was funded by the Recordings at Risk (RAR) program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/
Medium & Playback Notes: 12-inch; aluminum-based; nitrocellulose lacquer disc; 78.26rpm; lateral-cut; outside-start; 2.5mil; conical stylus at 2.47g. Digitization Notes: Created (1) dual-mono 24bit, 96kHz Preservation Master File (using no compensation EQ); (1) mono-summed 24bit, 96kHz Intermediate Master (with compensation equalization); (1) mono-summed Modified Master (clicks/pops & surface noise reduced).
Transcripts were generated by voice recognition software. Some have been edited, which will be an ongoing enhancement project. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17007.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/LFCrecordings/id/79
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Piedmont University
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that apply to your use. For other uses, contact archives@piedmont.edu. - Extent:
- 0:10:03
- Original Collection:
- Laurel Falls Camp Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Piedmont College. Library
- Rights:
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