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Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Georgia selections from John and Ruby Lomax's 1939 ethnographic field collection trip.
More About This Collection
Contributor to Resource
Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948 (Collector)
Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) (Collector)
Sentell, Jessie (Performer)
Timmins, Maggie (Performer)
Friddle, Jane A. (Performer)
Matthews, Nettie (Performer)
Carolina Ladies Quartet (Greenville, S.C.) (Performer)
Hi-Neighbor Men's Quartet (Anderson, S.C.) (Performer)
Date of Original
1939
Subject
Music
Religious Songs
Songs
Hymns
Location
United States, Georgia, Stephens County, Toccoa Falls, 34.59371, -83.35822
Medium
sound recordings
Type
Sound
Description
This recording trip is an ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the American Folklife Center archive), and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately 25 hours of folk music from more than 300 performers. These recordings represent a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
American Folklife Center
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