Banjo music.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bill Parker Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0114 SAA 114
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of photographs and digital copies of nine reel-to-reel audio tape recordings of singers, fiddlers, banjo players, and other traditional musicians, some of whom are otherwise undocumented. The recordings were made in the mid-1960s by Bill Parker of Paducah, Kentucky. Included are performances of Kentucky musicians at the American Folk Song Festival in Ashland, Kentucky; African-American singer and harmonica player "Peg Leg" Sam Jackson, in Knott County, Kentucky;...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1968
Buell Kazee Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0054 SAA 054
Abstract
Kazee was born August 29, 1900 in the quite rural Burton Fork area of Magoffin County, Kentucky. Baptist Christianity, home made music, and classical commercial recordings were important influences in Kazee’s upbringing. He was singing and playing banjo by age 5 and was ordained to preach at age 17.
After finishing high school at Magoffin Baptist Institute, he went on to Georgetown College to major in English, Greek, and Latin, and study voice. There he came to a stronger appreciation of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946-1979