SongEra: Jim Crow
Old Dollar Mamie
c. 1947(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)
- Artist
- Traditional
- Genre
- prison work song
A traditional African-American prison work song (also "Dollar Mamie"), first documented in Alan Lomax's 1947 Parchman Farm field recording and recorded again at Parchman in 1959.
Sources & citations
- 1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
- 2.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
- 3.egrove.olemiss.eduwebsite
- 4.pancocojams.blogspot.comwebsite