Spirituals with Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward
produced by Harold Courlander, 1908-1996 (Folkways Records, 1953), 21 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Description
- Alabama farm worker Dock Reed and his cousin Vera Hall Ward were both recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress. Dock, by all accounts, was a deeply religious man who never sang secular music, while Vera was known to perform a few of these "sinful" songs.
- Content Type
- Music recording
- Duration
- 21 mins
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Negro Spiritual
- Label
- Folkways Records
- Producer
- Harold Courlander, 1908-1996
- Release Date
- 1953
- Subject
- World Music, American Music, Music & Performing Arts, American Studies, United States and Canada, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá, United States
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá