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From the Library of Congress online collections, approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.
Approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.
Visual and audio images drawn from the extensive archival collections at The Library, the site features an authentic look at this past, from the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes, all brought to you in original documents.
Includes songs from the heyday of antebellum blackface minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Particularly significant and important in the Collection are the visual depictions of African-Americans which provide much information about racial attitudes over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries.