The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Span: 1939 English, Spanish web presentation This online presentation is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song, and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately 25 hours of folk music from more than 300 performers. These recordings represent a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs. Sound recordings (686 titles), photographs (381), field notes, correspondence, 37 song text transcriptions, 104 dust jackets. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Lomax, John An ethnographic field collection which includes nearly 700 sound recordings documenting a three-month trip through the southern United States by John Avery Lomax and his wife Ruth. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lores.html Folk Music African Americans in the Performing Arts Lomax, John Avery Lomax, Ruby Lomax, Terrill Performing Arts Encyclopedia scdb American Folklife Center, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html IHAS 080813 loc.natlib.scdb.200033716