SongEra: Jim Crow

Rosie

Name: Rosie
Description: African American axe-cutting prison work song, first documented in Alan Lomax's 1947-1948 Parchman Farm field recordings.

c. 1947(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: prison work song

African American axe-cutting prison work song, first documented in Alan Lomax's 1947-1948 Parchman Farm field recordings.

Sources & citations

1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.egrove.olemiss.eduwebsite
3.amazon.comwebsite