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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
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Item Title
Poor Stranger Blues
Author/Creator
Performer: Dixie Harmony Four
Performer: Smith, Ire
Performer: Arnold, L. G.
Performer: Choice, Doc
Performer: Tatum, S. T.
Created/Published
August 19, 1939
Notes
duration: 2 minutes, 45 seconds
A jook joint song.
In an earlier interview, the singers answered questions about jook joints, and defined 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.
The sound quality of this recording is extremely poor. It has been included online because the melody line can still be identified.
Subjects
African Americans
vocals
Ethnography
Music
Jook songs
Blues songs
Office of the Aycock & Lindsey Turpentine Camp
Cross City, Florida
Dixie County
Object Type
Related Names
Collector: Kennedy, Stetson
Collector: Cook, Robert
Speaker: Kennedy, Stetson
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFS 3527B:1
Part of
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
Digital ID
afcflwpa 3527b1
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcflwpa.3527b1
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Poor Stranger Blues [Comment]
Record made August 19, 1939 in the office of the Aycock & Lindsey turpentine camp, Cross City, Florida. [Textual Transcription]