External Site: Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip[info]
Part of the Library of Congress’s American Memory site, this ‘multiformat ethnographic field collection’ documents a three-month trip through the southern United States by folklorist John Lomax and wife Ruby. The site features 700 sound recordings, field-notes, dust-jackets and other manuscripts, with musical styles represented including blues, ballads, cowboy songs, field hollers, spirituals and work songs. The audio files are available in MP3, RealAudio and Wav formats; a separate listing gives textual transcriptions, and there is a photographic gallery.