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Lewis Jones recordings from Coahoma County, Mississippi

LC Control No.:	2008700343
Type of Material:	Music Sound Recording (Collection)
Main Title:	Lewis Jones recordings from Coahoma County, Mississippi [sound recording].
Published/Created:	1941.
Related Names:	Jones, Lewis Wade, 1910- , collector. » More like this Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) » More like this
Description:	7 sound discs : analog ; 12 in.
Access Advisory:	Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Summary:	Collection of field recordings of folksongs, hollers, blues, gospel music, poems, interviews, and religious music performed by Asa Ware, Tommie (Jaybird) Jones, Mississippi Gospel Singers, Maryland Davis Upchurch, Ollie Upchurch, and Charlie Palms. Includes speeches by a Farm Security Administration demonstrator on victory gardens and speeches and songs by other undentified people at the Jonestown School.
Notes:	Recorded in Coahoma County, Clarksdale, and Jonestown, Mississippi, by Lewis Jones, spring 1941. Search for these and other sound recordings (most are dated 1933-1950) in selected collections from the American Folklife Center in the online resource link: Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife Center.
Indexes:	Bibliographic information for titles in this collection is available in the online resource: Audio titles in the Lewis Jones Recordings from Coahoma County, Mississippi.
Cite as:	Lewis Jones Recordings from Coahoma County, Mississippi (AFC 1943/007), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Performer:	Various performers.
Acquisition Source:	Accessioned, 1943.
Subjects:	Blues (Music)--Mississippi--1941-1950. » More like this Gospel music--Mississippi. » More like this Spirituals (Songs)--Mississippi. » More like this Folk songs, English--Mississippi. » More like this Victory gardens--Mississippi. » More like this African Americans--Mississippi--Interviews. » More like this
Form/Genre:	Field recordings--Mississippi. » More like this Interviews. » More like this Poems. » More like this Speeches. » More like this
Local Shelving No.:	LWO 3493 (on tape 2/63) AFS 6734-6740 AFC 1943/007
Geographic Area Code:	n-us-ms
Repository:	DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
Links:	Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife Center: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/afccards-home.html