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Audio Recording Post-fieldwork community meeting, Ashburn, Turner County, Georgia, part 2

Post-fieldwork community meeting, Ashburn, Turner County, Georgia, part 2

About this Item

Title

  • Post-fieldwork community meeting, Ashburn, Turner County, Georgia, part 2

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Recordist)

Created / Published

  • Ashburn, Georgia, October 17, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Local legends
  • -  Highway bridges
  • -  Community involvement
  • -  Tall tales
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Turner County -- Ashburn

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  In October 1977, following the fieldwork phase of the project, Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center, and Syd Blackmarr, the director of the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton GA (folklife project sponsor) conducted meetings (also referred to as workshops) in various counties in and adjacent to the project region, to inform and confer with interested citizens and, in Tift County GA, with schoolteachers. Some of the people visited by project fieldworkers also participated in the meetings.
  • -  Part 2 of a 3-part recording of the Turner County GA post-fieldwork community meeting, Ashburn GA: continuation from part 1 of comments by Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center, accompanying the slide show shown to the group, for some images, members of the attendees offer some comments of further explanation; Jabbour exchanges information with attendees; some discussion on singing and shape notes; playing a sound recording of a church group that includes Fannie Lee Teals, tape log states recorded at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church (Damascus GA, alternatively may have been recorded at Macedonia Baptist Church, Sylvester GA), Jabbour comments on the tradition of note singing by African Americans, proceeds to describe the range of traditions documents in the fieldwork, buildings, music, food, about the level of interest in these topics as they exist today; about a legend told by college students from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) the currency of which was then verified by attendees; about the "screaming bridge" legend associated with a segment of interstate highway I-75; break in the meeting, Jabbour speaks briefly with Luther Bailey (from Sycamore GA, person visited by fieldworkers) before the break, attendees offer a few comments before the break; recording continues during the break, crowd sounds; reconvening after the break, Jabbour re-introduces Luther Bailey, who makes some remarks, a woman in attendance tells a story she heard in the Teacher's Lounge today, 'all the folklife fieldworkers were sitting around the filling station in Sycamore and one of them saw Bailey go by and said, 'hey, Lying Bailey, come over and tell us a big lie,' Bailey replied, 'I can't, I'm on my way to get the Civil Defense Ambulance, there's been a terrible wreck down the road,' the fieldworkers jumped in their car and rode all the way to Tifton and never did find the wreck," attendees laughter; Bailey tells stories, how people believe his lies, tells of an experience in Virginia with two shoeshine boys, Jabbour asks Bailey about the truth in the stories he collected for a book, Bailey tells about making money by skinning one of his dogs and selling it for an opossum, Bailey tells another story, continued (with short segment lost) in part 3.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20942
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 1569
  • Field project identifier: GA7-CF-R10

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl. Post-fieldwork community meeting, Ashburn, Turner County, Georgia, part 2. Ashburn, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20942/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Post-fieldwork community meeting, Ashburn, Turner County, Georgia, part 2. Ashburn, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20942/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl. Post-fieldwork community meeting, Ashburn, Turner County, Georgia, part 2. Ashburn, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20942/>.