Collection, ca. 1960s.

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Collection, ca. 1960s.

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Recordings of Sarah Ogan Gunning made in the mid-1960s, including interviews and performances made in preparation for a commercial sound recording (Folk-Legacy FSA-26) and classroom and concert appearances. Gunning performs a wide variety of songs, including love ballads, murder ballads, sacred and religious songs, miner songs, and political and protest songs. Interspersed are recollections of her life in a coal camp, her family and her association with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and Aunt Molly Jackson; the background to her composed songs; and an occasional Jack tale or bawdy story.

17 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7241433

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967

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Woody Guthrie, American folk singer, born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912 and raised in Texas, moved to California during the Depression, where he met actor and activist Will Geer and toured migrant labor camps documenting conditions and injustices in the camps for The Light newspaper. He also performed on Los Angeles radio KFVD-LA, singing old-time ballads, some of which he updated with lyrics about contemporary issues. Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Lib...

Green, Archie

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Archie Green, American folklorist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, b. 6-29-1917. From the description of [The Archie Green Collection at the Rare Book Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.] [1876?]-1987. WorldCat record id: 156850892 Anglo-American singer Sarah Ogan Gunning (1910-1983) from Knox County, Ky., known for her performances of traditional ballads and songs, as well as her own compositions on the poverty and social conditi...

Stekert, Ellen Jane, 1935-

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Leadbelly, 1885-1949

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Paskal, Oscar.

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Jackson, Aunt Molly

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Gunning, Sarah Ogan, 1910-1983

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