Hoodi-Cat

Audio file

Date recorded: October 24, 1940
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified children; Performer: Hughes, Earline; Recordist: Lomax, John A.
Subject(s):
Genre: game song, play song
Instruments: voice
Setting: Drew Colored School
Language: English
Location: Drew, Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
Tape number: AFS4014
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: 4014B1
Note: Preceded by introduction by John A. Lomax of participants. Ms. Earline Hughes led the students (nine girls, two boys) in singing. Lomax calls the school the "Drew Colored High School"; according to Stephen Wade in his The Beautiful Music All Around Us, the school was "called the Drew Colored School from the time of its establishment in 1921."
Transcript:
Belongs to: Drew 10/40
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