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| Named Person: | Leadbelly |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tyehimba Jess |
| ISBN: | 0974635332 9780974635330 |
| OCLC Number: | 58546476 |
| Description: | 117 p. : port. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | leadbelly's lessons -- what kind of soul has man? sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn -- john wesley ledbetter -- colt protection special -- fannin street signifies -- mistress stella speaks -- 1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly -- what you gonna do when the world's on fire? caddo born -- blind lemon taught me -- misfire -- harris county chain gang -- alias: walter boyd -- lethe on leadbelly -- the blood done signed your name. for trouble's sake -- bud russel, prison transfer man, 1920 -- father -- leadbelly: runagate -- leadbelly: from sugarland -- sing out -- Governor Pat Neff -- freedom -- home -- loving era -- era washington on leadbelly's stella -- black girl, black girl... mary on martha... -- martha promise: grown summer -- will you take this load... -- martha promise: what i knew -- yes, i was standing at the bottom. mooringsport moan -- leadbelly in angola prison: down again -- leadbelly sings to his #1 crew -- july, 1933: leadbelly receives lomax at angola prison -- out -- home again -- martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935 -- martha promise: keeping peace -- man plowing with mules. John Lomax's Recording Machine, 1933 -- Ethnographer John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation -- John Lomax: I Work With Negroes -- John Lomax: On Seeking Song -- John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July, 1933 -- leadbelly's role -- leadbelly: mythology -- five year sentence -- leadbelly's labor on the lomax trail, 1934 -- prisoner #489235 -- the song speaks -- you don't know my mind... Leadbelly: Bad Nigger Makes Good Minstrel -- leadbelly vs. lomax: song hunting, 1934 -- John Lomax writes home, 1934 -- leadbelly writes home, 1934 -- leadbelly vs. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934 -- lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934 -- lomax v. leadbelly: on the road, 1935 -- lomax v. leadbelly: dreams -- good morning babe, how do you do? leadbelly & martha: return to new york, 1936 -- jimmy goodwin, age 9 -- leadbelly's big city hustle -- brownie and leadbelly: stipulations and apprenticeship -- martha: life's work -- To: Haywood Patterson #386j49 -- leadbelly: one thing -- John Lomax writes home, 1937 -- martha: weight -- josh white writes home, 1941 -- cab calloway on leadbelly -- stella: diminuendo -- martha: vigil -- leadbelly: christened. |
| Series Title: | National poetry series |
| Responsibility: | Tyehimba Jess. |
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