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Easy Lawd: On Death and Dying: Afro American Mythology and Folklore

Catalog Data

Collection Collector:
Maltsby, Portia  Search this
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture  Search this
Container:
Box 15, Folder 10-11
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1986 April 5
Scope and Contents:
Program held on April 5, 1986, at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Easy Lawd is a performance-based song narrative recreating Afro-American experiences of dying and beliefs in death and the time after death. Delivered in folk speech and Standard English, the presentation contains literary selections from Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston, Jubilee by Margaret Walker, Death and Burial on Yamacraw by Pat Conroy, and a sermon by James Weldon Johnson. The program was organized by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, director, Program in Black Culture (later known as the Program in African American Culture). Materials include audio cassettes, a script, and a program guide. Program number AC408.41.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Access and use of audiovisual materials available in the Archives Center reading room or by requesting copies of audiovisual materials at RightsReproductions@si.edu
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions exist. Collection items available for reproduction Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Program in African American Culture Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
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Program in African American Culture Collection
Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep88b63781c-e944-45f7-aeb5-159c44f2f0c0
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0408-ref1186