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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
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Item Title
Poor Stranger Blues [Comment]
Created/Published
August 19, 1939
Notes
duration: 5 minutes, 11 seconds
The singers answer questions about jook joints, and define them as "bar rooms," formerly known as "festival halls," "a name colored people give dance halls," etc. They think the term jook joint originated in sawmill camps. Jooks are described: "an outlaw place; don't nobody go there but outlaw people."
The jook joint song is reported to have been heard in jook joints in Perry, Florida, and in Suwannee County, and in the Interstate Jook.
Subjects
African Americans
spoken
Ethnography
Music
Narratives
Interviews
Office of the Aycock & Lindsey Turpentine Camp
Cross City, Florida
Dixie County
Object Type
Related Names
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Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFS 3527A:3
Part of
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
Digital ID
afcflwpa 3527a3
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcflwpa.3527a3
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Poor Stranger Blues
Record made August 19, 1939 in the office of the Aycock & Lindsey turpentine camp, Cross City, Florida. [Textual Transcription]