These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and...
Love; Loneliness; Marriage; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Man-woman relationships; Courtship; Milking; Cows; Social classes; Popular music -- England -- 19th century;
Man-woman relationships; Courtship; Marriage; Wealth; Social classes; Irish; England; Emigration and immigration; Popular music -- England -- 19th century;
An Irish man emigrates to England and meets a fair maiden