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Title Songs and ballads of the anthracite miners. [sound recording] Edited by George Korson.

Publication Info. [Washington] Library of Congress, Music Division, Recording Laboratory AAFS L16. [1959]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections  782.42162 So58sb    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 1 disc. 33 1/3 rpm. mono. 12 in.
Series Folk music of the United States
Note Folk-songs and fiddle-tunes.
"From the Archive of American Folk Song."
Contents Down, down, down -- The Avondale mine disaster -- Me Johnny Mitchell man -- Boys on the hill, hornpipe (fiddle-tune) -- On Johnny Mitchell's train -- Rolling on the rye grass, reel (fiddle-tune) -- The old miner's refrain -- John J. Curtis -- A celebrated workingman -- When the breaker starts up full time -- Union man -- The miner's doom -- Down in a coal mine -- The shoofly.
Event Recorded originally by the editor at various places in Pennsylvania in 1946.
Subject Miners -- Songs and music.
Folk songs, English -- Pennsylvania.
Fiddle tunes.
Added Author Korson, George Gershon, 1899-1967.
Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory
Archive of American Folk Song.
Music No. AAFS L16 Library of Congress Recording Laboratory

 
    
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