"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
Span: 1938-1943
Bulk: 1938-1943
English
web presentation
This online presentation consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work between September 1938 and 1941. Song lists made by the collectors, correspondence about the trips, and a special issue of the Fort Valley State College student newsletter, The Peachite: Festival Number, are also included.
Sound recordings (103), letters, memos
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
Sound recordings of blues and gospel songs with related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvres.html
Folk Music
African Americans in the Performing Arts
Work, John Wesley, III
Jones, Lewis
James, Willis Laurence
Fort Valley Music Festival
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html
IHAS
090604
loc.natlib.scdb.200033558