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Description
Side A description: Silence [00:00]; Piano playing [00:06]; Singing negro national anthem, “Lift every voice and sing” [08:44]; Father’s claim that Columbus did not discovery America [10:55]; Father’s cursing [11:42]; Father’s claim that most Black folk songs are not Black [12:06]; Discusses song, “Careless love,” old brothel ballad [12:57]; Discusses song, “Easter parade” [15:03]; Discusses song, “This land is your land” [19:06]; Performing as the Streamline Singers [20:32]; Sings UAW song [21:18]; Spirituals [21:55]; Discusses song, “Motherless children,” his mother and father’s infidelities [22:30]; Father’s guitar playing style [30:10]; Song, “Sentimental journey” [32:00] Side B description: Silence [00:00]; Spirituals as future tense and blues as the past tense [00:11]; Blues lyrics and whiskey, women, and money [02:30]; Discusses song, “I shall not be moved” and “Hang low sweet chariot” [03:00]; Spiritual idiom developed because Blacks could not speak freely [04:50]; Blues is truth [07:40]; Uses “women” as a crutch for the white man [08:10]; Motivation to write songs [12:10]; Resentment against Jim Crow in his songs [12:30]; Blues as an American musical form [17:00]; Unnamed transgendered women’s suicide on Golden Gate Bridge [21:27]; Early childhood with father, Solomon’s Temple, McGhee’s Station [23:20]; Maryville, Tennessee, Hale High School [27:10]
Type
sound
Format
Audio cassette
Form/Genre
Oral histories
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
caolaam_000054
Provenance
African American Museum and Library at Oakland California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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