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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
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Item Title
Let the Deal Go Down
Author/Creator
Performer: Hurston, Zora Neale
Created/Published
June 18, 1939
Notes
duration: 2 minutes, 28 seconds
A gambling song to accompany the game "Georgia Skin," learned at a turpentine camp in Florida.
Zora Neale Hurston, originally of Eatonville, Florida, was already a published novelist and folklorist when she took a job with the Federal Writers' Project in Florida.
This recording begins with a series of skips.
Subjects
African Americans
vocals
Ethnography
Music
Gambling songs
Federal Music Project Office
Jacksonville, Florida
Duval County
Object Type
Related Names
Collector: Halpert, Herbert
Collector: [Kennedy, Stetson]
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFS 3137B:2
Part of
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
Digital ID
afcflwpa 3137b2
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcflwpa.3137b2
Related Items
Georgia Skin
Tentative record check list, Southern Recording Expedition sponsored by Joint Committee on Folk Arts WPA and the Library of Congress, Herbert Halpert in charge, May 12 - June 30, 1939 [excerpt]