Scope and Contents Group or Organization Name:County of Residence:RandolphOccupation:retiredNotes:African American 7-shape note singing conventions oral history; hobbies sewing, cooking. Part of Kuanita Murphey's independent study MUE 7900 African American Music Research, which later became a chapter in her master's thesis on her home church in CutKeywords:African American 7-shapenote singing conventionsGenres (Controlled Vocabulary):religious...

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Wilbur Clarke Lee, February 15, 1997 and June 20, 2005. Hoboken (Ga.). Fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers. Audio files digitized from DAT or cassette tape. Part of the Sacred Harp Series: South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Includes: Interview with David Lee and Clarke Lee, Hoboken (Ga.), February 15, 1997. Home of David and Cathy Lee, Hoboken. Includes transcript. CAS-1004.06...

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Interview with Diana Bennett Jones, Randolph County, Georgia, April 7, 2003. Fieldworker: Kuanita E. Murphy. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

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Oral history interview with Elvera Dowling Lee, June 26, 1997. Waycross (Ga.). Fieldworker: Laurie K. Sommers. Audio file digitized from DAT and cassette tape. Part of the Sacred Harp Series, South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

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Interview with Ethel Ruth Baldwin, April 15, 2003. 00:31:53. Randolf County, Georgia. Fieldworker: Kuanita Murphey. Topics: Shape-note singing, Sacred Harp.

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Oral history interview with Johnny (David Jonathan) Lee and Delores Lee, November 20, 1999. Hoboken (Ga.). Fieldworker: Laurie K. Sommers. Audio file digitized from DAT tape. Part of the Sacred Harp Series: South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

This recording highlights the Hoboken Style of Sacred Harp. The sing uses the Brown edition of the Sacred Harp.

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Oral history interview with Lottie Mae Carter, May 10, 2001. Hoboken (Ga.). Fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers. Audio file digitized from DAT tape. Part of the Sacred Harp Series, South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Growing up in High Bluff church community, singing schools with Martin Dowling at Cascade school, Sacred Harp. Tape not indexed.

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Interview with Mac Tedder, February 13, 1999. Jakin, Georgia [Early County]. Excerpts from On Solomon’s Porch, an oral history of cultural life in Jakin, Georgia by Gretchen Geisinger, Independent Study, 1999, Laurie Kay Sommers, Instructor.

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Interview with Mildred J. Harris, Cuthbert (Ga.), April 21, 2003. Fieldworker: Kuanita E. Murphy. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview(s) with David Irwin Lee, Hoboken (Ga.), February 15, 1997; June 19, 1999; July 15, 2000; November 16, 2002. Fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers. Audio files digitized from DAT or cassette tape. Part of the Sacred Harp Series: South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. CAS-1004.06: Interview with David Lee and Clarke Lee, Hoboken...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Johnnie B. Jones, aka Man Jones regarding Shape note singing and Sacred Harp music. Cuthbert, Georgia. Recorded February 2, 2003 and April 14, 2003. Fieldworker: Kuanita E. Murphy. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Interview with Johnnie B. Jones, February 2, 2003. At the home of Mr. Johnnie B. Jones...

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Tollie Lee, January 31, 1998 and May 18, 2005. Fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers. Audio file digitized from DAT and cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. 3 interviews: DAT-1004.10 Tollie Lee Interview, January 31, 1998. Hilliard (Fla.); Fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers. Interview with Tollie...

Scope and Contents This multi-genre ethnographic collection is an outgrowth of the South Georgia Folklife Project founded by Dr. Laurie Sommers in 1996. It reflects 10 years of field documentation and public programs from 1996 to 2006. Highlights of the collection include Southeast Georgia Sacred Harp, Okefenokee Music Survey, Flint River fisheries, Traditions of Turpentiners, Folkwriting (Lessons on Place, Heritage, and Traditions for Georgia Classrooms), online exhibits, and a radio archives of documentary...