Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: caricature of an exasperated African American male pointing to his wine glass, as a weeping waiter holds out his hand in a gesture of ""no"" -- liquor bottle fly away on wings
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...