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Audio Recording Interviews and selected performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, parts 3 and 4, Frank White, Frank Paulk, Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Jones

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Title

  • Interviews and selected performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, parts 3 and 4, Frank White, Frank Paulk, Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Jones

Names

  • Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector)
  • White, Frank
  • Paulk, Frank
  • Jones, E.C.
  • Jones, E.C., Mrs.

Created / Published

  • Mystic, Georgia, July 17, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Song festivals
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Songs
  • -  Music
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Mystic

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Songs
  • Music
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Side B: Part 4 of a 5-part series of interviews and performances at the Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, this segment begins with a conversation with Frank White, born in Lumber City GA in 1902, has written songs for 51 years, had played dobro, guitar, and violin, in a band called the Pine Valley Boys, comments that the convention used to have more attendees, notes that singing now has more "after-beat" and is more "gospel-like," says that religious music must be free from criticism, comments that convention founder Uncle Billy Royal (William Jackson Royal 1850-1931) was rich, recording of performance of "I Shall Not Be Moved" (from Sing with Joy), conversation with Frank Paulk, who has attended 56 conventions, conversation with Mr. and Mrs. E.C. (Ersie Coleman Jones?) and Rosa Lee Jones, West Palm Beach FL, and Mrs. Jones's brother George Kilgore, Rosa Lee Jones recalls the convention in the past as important to young people, women would get a "convention dress" every year, the crowds began to dwindle in the mid-1950s, in the 1920s and 1930s, the convention attracted from 8,000 to 10,000 people each year, there was much courtship activity, about this as Mr. and Mrs. Jones's second marriages, they knew each other as children and "re-met" at the convention seven years ago, story about George Kilgore being hugged by a girl, E.C. Jones remarks that the convention was "bigger than Easter," comments on building the tabernacle, John Willis of Ocilla was influential, E.C. Jones comments on the history of the convention and about convention founder William Jackson (Uncle Billy) Royal's death, how he was kind and dignified, on his singing schools, Rosa Lee Jones on the number of attendees in the old days meant there was "no room for buggies," E.C. Jones comments on the dinner-on-the-grounds, both Joneses discuss reasons for convention's decline, weather, people's changing attitudes, growth of competing activities, "it was a great thing then."
  • -  The folklife project team produced multiple sound recordings with overlapping content at the Royal Singing Convention. On Saturday, 16 July 1977, David Stanley recorded performances and announcements on 4 audiocassettes (3 on two sides, 1 on one side, total 3.5 hours) titled "Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (16 July 1977), part [numbers]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21173 through AFS 21176 (side A). Also on Saturday, Thomas A. Adler recorded one open-reel tape (30 minutes) with test recordings that include portions of some performances, titled "Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (16 July 1977), technical test segments," identified by call number AFC 1982/010: AFS 20874. On Sunday, 17 July 1977, Thomas A. Adler recorded performances and announcements on seven open-reel recordings (about 3 hours) titled "Musical performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (17 July 1977), part [number]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 20875 through AFS 20881. Also on Sunday, David Stanley recorded interviews with participants on 3 audiocassettes (1 on one side, 2 on two sides, total 2.5 hours) titled "Interviews, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia (17 July 1977), part [numbers]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21176 (side B) through AFS 21178. Also on Sunday, William E. Lightfoot produced three audiocassette recordings (2 on two sides, 1 on one side, total 2.5 hours) titled "Interviews and selected performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, part [numbers]," identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 20997 through AFS 20999. In addition, Thomas A. Adler produced three video recordings (dates inconsistent in documentation, may have been 16 and-or 17 July 1977) carrying field project identifiers GA7-V1, GA7-V2, and a portion of GA7-V3.
  • -  Side A: Part 3 of a 5-part series of interviews and performances at the Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, recording includes performances, fieldworker's notes cite two shape note hymnals edited by Connor B. Hall in use at the convention (Pure Gospel, published by James D. Vaughan, 1977, and Sing With Joy, published by Tennessee Music and Printing, 1976), performances by attendees some or all led by J.C. Cooper (John Carlton Cooper?) of Ben Hill County GA, including "I Shall Be Home with Jesus" (from Pure Gospel), "I Still Believe" (from Sing with Joy), "Sing a Little Song" (from Pure Gospel), remarks by convention president Erston Royal, "Amazing Grace" (from Pure Gospel), remarks by folklife fieldworker Rusty Marshall introducing the team, devotional by Rev. LeRoy Carver of Tifton GA, Carver then sings "God's Unchanging Hand."

Medium

  • audiocassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20998
  • MBRS shelflist: RYA 0898
  • Field project identifier: GA7-WL-C5

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:

Lightfoot, William E, Frank White, Frank Paulk, E.C Jones, and E.C Jones. Interviews and selected performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, parts 3 and 4, Frank White, Frank Paulk, Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Jones. Mystic, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20998/.

APA citation style:

Lightfoot, W. E., White, F., Paulk, F., Jones, E. C. & Jones, E. C. (1977) Interviews and selected performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, parts 3 and 4, Frank White, Frank Paulk, Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Jones. Mystic, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20998/.

MLA citation style:

Lightfoot, William E, et al. Interviews and selected performances, Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia, parts 3 and 4, Frank White, Frank Paulk, Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Jones. Mystic, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20998/>.