Wood, Hally, Oral History, 1985

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Wood, Hally, Oral History, 1985

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Recorded in Round Top, Texas, on April 12, 1985, the Hally Wood Oral History comprises one audiocassette with an interview of Wood about her life and career as a folk musician as well as her work with Alan and John Lomax. The tape also includes musical recordings of Wood, Stan Alexander, and another unidentified musician.

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Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

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Lomax, John A. (John Avery,), 1867-1948

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Collector and publisher of North American folk songs, born in Mississippi; settled near Meridian, Texas (1869); served University of Texas as secretary to the president and to alumni organizations until 1917. He published collections of folk songs (1910, 1927-1947) and a memoir (1947); and served as curator, Archive of American Folksong, Library of Congress. Married Bess Baumann Brown (1904), who died in 1931, and Ruby R. Terrill (1934). Fathered four children: Shirley Lomax Mansell Duggan; John...

Wood, Hally, 1922-1989

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Born in Washington, D. C., Harriet Elizabeth Hally Wood (1922-1989) was the daughter of a U.S. Army doctor, who retired in San Antonio, Texas. While studying music at the University of Texas at Austin, she met John and Alan Lomax, and in 1940, she married John Henry Faulk, with whom she had one daughter. Following the end of World War II, Wood moved to New York City to work with such folk musicians as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Pete Seeger. After divorcing Faulk in 1947, she mar...