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The African American Folklorist Ep 2 – Elijah Cox
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On this episode of The African American Folklorist, I share the story of the born free, African American Traditional Music Practitioner Elijah Cox, who was a fiddler, Buffalo soldier, and recorded in 1935 at the age of 93 for the Library of Congress Elijah Cox was also interviewed and recorded for the Born in…
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African-American Spirituals of the Civil War
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SPEAKER: J. Weldon Norris, Steven Cornelius, Samuel Perryman EVENT DATE: 2013/03/30 RUNNING TIME: 46 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window) DESCRIPTION: A panel discussion on African-American spirituals of the Civil War. Reference:Library Of Congress
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Black Spirituals – America’s Folk Songs
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Black Spirituals – America’s Folk Songs By Lamont Jack Pearley The Black Spirituals are the product of suffering, the hardships and despairs of those in bondage as they gave utterance through deep grievance in song. Said to be religious folksongs that were born during American slavery, Krehbiel states, “they were literally born and not…
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John Wesley Work III – Episode 1 African American Folklorists, Writers and The Blues
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Published by Lamont Jack Pearley Talking Bout The Blues Video series African American Folklorist, Writers and the Blues. This series highlights African American writers, folklorists, ethnologist, composers and playwriters, that documented, described and flat out canvased the Black experience through their works, connecting the dots between the Blues, Spirituals, Work songs, Prison songs…
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The Black South in Chicago – Federal Writers Project
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley I came across this piece in the “American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1940” after discussing Margaret Walker and her being hired by the Federal Writers Project in 1936 on today’s show! This is one of the many manuscripts that are part of the…