Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: photos of African American performers Williams & Walker staring at a drawing of a strange creature with large eyes; ""music supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Sunday, May 12, 1901""
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...