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United States, North and South Carolina, Georgia, African Americans, 1920s-1930s
- Author/Composer,etc
- Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979.
- Title
- [United States, North and South Carolina, Georgia, African Americans, 1920s-1930s] [sound recording] / collected by Lawrence Gellert.
- Format
- Musical Recording
- Physical description
- 221 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 7-10 in. + 4 sound tape reels (10 in.)
- Performer
- Various mainly unidentified performers, vocals, some accompanied.
- Recording info
- Recorded by Gellert in North and South Carolina and Georgia between 1920 and 1930.
- Notes
- African American protest and other songs. Accompanied by extensive notes and field descriptions, tape indexes, copies of Gellert's 1936 publication, Negro Songs of Protest, various writings (drafts of short stories and articles), and 300 pages of song lyric transcriptions (at Lilly Library).
- Local note
- Selections from this collection were released on three recordings edited by Bruce Harrah-Conforth. See Archives accession numbers: 83-351-C; 83-352-C; and 85-171-C. 10-17792--10-17857, 7-2141--7-2295; EC 10-230--233; EC 10" 230--233
- Summary
- This collection includes more than 600 songs recorded from African Americans throughout the 1920's and 1930's; include songs of protest and performances by chain gang prisoners.
- Terms of use
- Archival use and reproduction for non-profit educational and research purposes; Archives of Traditional Music.
- Subject
- African Americans--Southeastern States--Social conditions. African Americans--Civil rights--Music. Protest songs--Southeastern States. Folk songs, English--Southeastern States. African Americans--Southeastern States--Songs and music. American literature--African American authors.
- Local subject
- N.N.1.
- Related name
- Indiana University, Bloomington. Archives of Traditional Music.
- Includes
- Six months ain't no sentence. Annie Lee. Working on the levee, eighty cents a day. Greenville jail (2) Why didn't somebody tell me? Captain, ain't it a sin? Don't talk about it. Captain, you ain't no more mine. Captain, what's on your mind? Bossman tell me. Swing it. Delia. Prison bound blues. Captain don't you think I ever det tired? Worked for Captain Willard. I ain't gonna be your old work horse no more. On a Monday I was arrested. I got in trouble. Mr. Tyree.