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Summary
This index record preserves the catalog-title component The old oak tree from the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection. It occurs in 1 held item record(s). The title forms are retained as catalog evidence; identical or near-identical titles are not assumed to be the same song, performance, melody, or person.
Catalog scope
The related item records distinguish sound recordings from digitized catalog
cards. This record is an index layer over those item articles, not an audio
transcription and not a new song-level identification. The representative
catalog item and its exact local JSON path are listed in sources:.
Open questions
- Do the corresponding card and audio records refer to the same performance?
- Which performer, family, language, or tune tradition can be established from the recording and independent island sources?
- Are the capitalization and spelling differences meaningful, or only catalog normalization differences?
See also
Sources
- This exact catalog-title component occurs in 1 held item record(s). Representative item ; call number AFS Number: AFS 02292 B. Capitalization and spelling variants are retained in alt_names rather than silently merged.audio · lomax_michigan_1938_beaver_island · afc9999005.9622 · item
Added 1 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Lomax catalog title: The old oak tree”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-title-record-the-old-oak-tree/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings, catalog title 'The old oak tree'..
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