- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ida Cox and John Hammond
- Date of Original:
- 1961-04-12
- Subject:
- Singers--United States
Women singers--United States
African American singers
African American women singers
Blues musicians--United States
Women blues musicians--United States
Composers--United States
Women composers--United States
African American composers
African American women composers
Musicians--United States
African American musicians
Women musicians--United States
African American women musicians
Sound recording executives and producers--United States
Sofas--United States
Cox, Ida, 1889-1967
Hammond, John, 1910-1987 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Ida Cox, a successful blues singer of the 1920s, meets with John Hammond some years after her 1939 performance in his From Spirituals to Swing concert for an integrated audience at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Hammond, a prominent musician and producer, worked throughout the 1930s to integrate the music business.
Photograph of blues singer and Georgia native Ida Cox meeting with John Hammond some years after her 1939 performance in his From Spirituals to Swing concert for an integrated audience at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She is seated on a sofa, and he stands next to her. They grasp hands and smile.
Hammond, a prominent musician and producer, worked throughout the 1930s to integrate the music business. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/ida-cox-1894-1967/m-7989/
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/ida-cox-1896-1967
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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