SongEra: Jim Crow

Levee Camp Holler

Name: Levee Camp Holler
Description: African American field-holler tradition of the Mississippi levee-construction camps; earliest documented in John Lomax's 1933 Parchman Farm recordings.

c. 1933(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: field holler

African American field-holler tradition of the Mississippi levee-construction camps; earliest documented in John Lomax's 1933 Parchman Farm recordings.

Sources & citations

1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.egrove.olemiss.eduwebsite
3.loc.govwebsite