Fort Valley State College Folk Festivals

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As is often the case with materials collected in the course of ethnographic field research, however, it is difficult or impossible to sufficiently identify specific songs sung by participants which precludes performing a comprehensive assessment of the copyright status of underlying musical rights in lyrics or compositions. Research performed by the staff of the American Folklife Center in anticipation of the release of this Collection in American Memory indicates that the underlying musical works appear to be in the public domain. As with all materials provided by American Memory, users are reminded that they must make their own assessment of copyrights or other rights (or absence of such rights) in the context of their intended use.

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The following materials are included in this online Collection with permission. Please contact the American Folklife Center for additional information where contact information is not provided:

The Peachite, March 1944 Festival Edition (Vol. II, No. 2), with permission of the Mass Communications Department, Fort Valley State University, 1005 State University Drive, Fort Valley, Georgia 31030, Attn: Lloyd Archer.

Photographs by Edward Clark (part of The Peachite as reproduced here), with permission from Time Life Syndication, Time and Life Building, Rockefeller Center, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020. License is for one time non-exclusive editorial use in the website www.loc.gov (American Memory) for ten (10) years beginning April 28, 2000. Any advertising, promotional, trade or other commercial use of the materials is strictly prohibited. Edward Clark materials licensed herein may not be downloaded or isolated from the context of this website. No other use of these photographs is permitted.

Drawing of W. C. Handy (part of The Peachite as reproduced here), with permission of the family of Bettina Steinke.

Arrangement of "Get Right, Stay Right" (part of The Peachite as reproduced here) and correspondence by Willis Laurence James, with permission from the family of Willis Laurence James (Minnie-Rose J. Richardson: mrose@snet.net).

Arrangement of "This Ol' Hammer" (part of The Peachite as reproduced here) and correspondence by John Wesley Work III, with permission from the family of John Wesley Work III.

Quotation from The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes, with permission from Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

Selection from Red River Blues by Bruce Bastin. Copyright 1986 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Press. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press, 1325 South Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820-6903.

Fort Valley State College Folk Festivals