Resounding History: A Rhetoric of Sonic Historiography (in Two Parts)
Credits and References
Recordings from the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Used courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity. Alan Lomax's recording sessions with Vera Ward Hall are available online in their entirety via research.culturalequity.org. Recordings by Phil Cook & His Feet used with permission.
Image Credits
Little Visuals. (n.d.). Grayscale photography of knob switch [Photograph]. Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/technology-music-sound-audio-1774/
Audio Credits and References
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Hall, Vera Ward. (1948a). All my sins been taken away [Song]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59590
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948b). The black cat (The back cat and the white cat) (fragment) [Song]. Recorded by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59578
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948c). He that believe have an everlasting home [Song]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59588
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948d). I got a home in that rock [Song]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59570
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948e). The little wooden church [Song]. Recorded by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59620
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948f). Show me the way [Song]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59592
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948g). Trouble in mind (I) [Song]. Recorded by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59576
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948h). Wild ox moan (III) [Song]. Recorded by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59586
Hall, Vera Ward. (1948i). Young speckled lady [Song]. Recorded by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59553
Hall, Vera Ward. (1959). Trouble so hard (II) [Song]. Recorded by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/60711
Hyson. (2018a). Among thorns [Song]. On Soundtrack for the weary vol. III [Album]. Free Music Archive. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hyson/Soundtrack_for_the_Weary_Vol_III/Hyson_-_Among_Thorns_1
Hyson. (2018b). Arise my darling, my beautiful one [Song]. On Soundtrack for the weary vol. III [Album]. Free Music Archive. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hyson/Soundtrack_for_the_Weary_Vol_III/Hyson_-_Arise_My_Darling_My_Beautiful_One
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948a). Commentary by Vera Hall on becoming a Christian (II) [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59589
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948b). Commentary by Vera Hall on becoming a Christian (III) [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59591
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948c). Commentary by Vera Hall on becoming a Christian (IV) [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59593
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948d). Commentary by Vera Hall on her favorite songs [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59621
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948e). Commentary by Vera Hall on her mother's songs and her siblings [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59571
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948f). Commentary by Vera Hall on interracial relationships [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59579
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948g). Commentary by Vera Hall on Rosie Baby and mother [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59561
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948h). Commentary by Vera Hall on Young Speckled Lady [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59554
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee). (1948i). Interview with Vera Hall about dance steps and patting [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59557
Lomax, Alan (Interviewer), & Hall, Vera Ward (Interviewee and performer). (1948j). Riding in a buggy [Audio interview]. The Association for Cultural Equity. https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/59555
Moby. (1999). Natural blues [Song]. On Play [Album]. V2 Records.
Phil Cook & His Feet. (2011a). Ballad of a hungry mother [Song]. On Hungry mother blues [Album]. Trekky Records.
Phil Cook & His Feet. (2011b). Juniper [Song]. On Hungry mother blues [Album]. Trekky Records.
Reed, Dock, Reed, Henry, & Hall, Vera. (1942). Trouble so hard [Song]. Recorded by John A. Lomax and Ruby Pickens Tartt in Livingston, Alabama in 1937. Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, and Ballads. Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song, AFS L3.
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