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Fieldworker/Collector

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Description

Dale Olsen serves as emcee. Lomax discusses the background of what had been said previously in the conference; the "century of the common man"; various people involved with the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) including Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt; archives and records; Woody Guthrie and his song, "Going Where the Climate Suits My Clothes"; WPA writers and John Lomax's involvement in the beginning of the Slave Narrative Collection; difficulties and risks in gathering folklore; importance of folklore to the public sector; fieldwork with African-Americans; Zora Neale Hurston and performs one of the songs she collected; Stetson Kennedy and his work with the WPA; the dangers of fieldwork; importance of oldest documents; living in the black community; African instruments; and songs he collected (particularly blues).