Alan Lomax gives eulogy and leads songs at Mable Hillery's memorial service

Audio file
Date recorded: 1976
Contributor(s): Contributor: Georgia Sea Island Singers; Contributor: Jones, Bessie; Contributor: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s): Anthropology; Cantometrics; Choreometrics; Hillery, Mable
Genre: interview/commentary
Culture: African American
Location:
Tape number: T3849
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: T3849a
Note: Ambient recording of Lomax's eulogy for Mabel Hillery at her memorial service. Includes a partial performance of "Moses" by the Georgia Sea Island Singers and an unidentified guitarist-singer (John Dee Holeman?) performing "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning." "Riley" and "I Heard the Angels Singing" are led by Lomax.
Belongs to: Hillery, 1976
About the session: Ambient recording of Lomax's eulogy for Mabel Hillery at her memorial service
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