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View Resource Center for the Study of Southern Culture

The Center for the Study of Southern Culture hosts information on cultural events listed by state, on-line versions the Center's publications, and links to pages for Blues, Gospel, and Country music.

https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/
View Resource Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

To sit down with a group of friends to sing and play musical instruments qualifies as a great experience for many, and humans have reveled in such get-togethers for millennia. This beautiful digital collection from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress presents 100 sound recordings from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College in Georgia. The recordings primarily consist of...

https://www.loc.gov/collections/blues-gospel-and-the-fort-va...
View Resource The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s

African-American owned enterprises in the South were not unusual phenomena in the early 20th century, but their records are often scattered and fragmentary. Keeping that in mind, this website is made all the more intriguing and useful, both for scholars and the web-browsing public. Created in cooperation with the Digital Library of Georgia and the Middle Georgia Archives, this collection consists...

https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/dlg_dtrm