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Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942

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About this Item

Title

  • Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942

Names

  • Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)

Created / Published

  • 1941-1942

Headings

  • -  Fieldwork
  • -  correspondence
  • -  manuscripts
  • -  United States

Genre

  • correspondence
  • manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Correspondence with Joe Hickerson re. Fisk University material (2/2/91); list "American Folk Songs on Commercial Records"; article "Acculturation of the Delta Negro"; memo to C. Johnson from L. Jones re. Fisk field trip and report recommendations (8/20/42) 15 pages; correspondence re. transcripts (6/24/49); photocopies of AFS 1620-1621 recordings, WC Handy recorded in 1938; used as source material for book project, The Land Where the Blues Began

Medium

  • Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 2004/004: MS 09.04.27

Source Collection

  • Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Online Format

  • online text
  • image

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Credit line

Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Lomax, Alan. Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, -1942. to 1942, 1941. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc2004004.ms090427/.

APA citation style:

Lomax, A. (1941) Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, -1942. to 1942. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc2004004.ms090427/.

MLA citation style:

Lomax, Alan. Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, -1942. to 1942, 1941. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc2004004.ms090427/>.