- Date
- 1938-08-29
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- music-folkloreheritage
- Within
- Saint James · Beaver Island
- Media
- Sentence to death
Summary
The Library of Congress catalogues Old mountain dew as a sound recording,
AFC 1939/007: AFS 02300 B, and dates it to 29 August 1938. The held item is
afc1939007_afs02300b. The catalog credits the performance to O’Donnell,
Mike J.. Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 is named as collector.
Catalog metadata
- Library of Congress identifier:
afc1939007_afs02300b - Call number:
AFC 1939/007: AFS 02300 B - Catalog date: 1938-08-29
- Catalog contributor labels: O’Donnell, Mike J. (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
- 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_afs02300b · item
Added 31 July 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Old mountain dew”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-afc1939007-afs02300b/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, 'Old mountain dew', AFC 1939/007: AFS 02300 B, recorded 1938-08-29..
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