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Brennan on the Moor; Bonny Black Bess

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TypeRecording
Date1938-08-25
WithinSaint James · Beaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Photograph: Brennan on the moor, 1938-08.
Brennan on the moor Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist); Green, J. W. (Singer)
Recording
Date
1938-08-25
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
music-folkloreheritage
Within
Saint James · Beaver Island
Media
Brennan on the moor · Brennan on the moor

Summary

The Library of Congress catalogues Brennan on the Moor; Bonny Black Bess as a sound recording, AFC 1939/007: AFS 02280 B, and dates it to 25 August 1938. The held item is afc1939007_afs02280b. The catalog credits the performance to Green, John W., 1871-1963. Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 is named as collector. That title runs two songs together; they stay one item here because the catalog keeps them as one.

Catalog metadata

  • Library of Congress identifier: afc1939007_afs02280b
  • Call number: AFC 1939/007: AFS 02280 B
  • Catalog date: 1938-08-25
  • Catalog contributor labels: Green, John W., 1871-1963 (Performer); Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
  • Original format: sound recording

The held item.json is the authority for every field above. The contributor labels are the catalog’s own, and this article does not claim that anyone has checked them against the audio.

Provenance and limits

The recording belongs to the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings, AFC 1939/007. Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings, 1938 covers all 71 sound recordings and the 108 catalog-card photographs held beside them. What is here is the catalog layer. Song texts and performance attribution beyond the labels are still open.

See also

Sources

  1. Held item.json identifies this record as a sound recording and preserves its catalog title, date, location, call number and contributor labels.
    audio · lomax_michigan_1938_beaver_island · afc1939007_afs02280b · item

Added 31 July 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Brennan on the Moor; Bonny Black Bess”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-afc1939007-afs02280b/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, 'Brennan on the Moor; Bonny Black Bess', AFC 1939/007: AFS 02280 B, recorded 1938-08-25..

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