A ACS 6.502
Artist: Rosetta Reitz
Album/Event: “Women in the Blues,” Augusta lecture
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Date: 7/18/1995
Location: Elkins, WV
Notes: Discussion of women in the blues history; video taped examples by Rosetta Reitz; relationship between blues, jazz, and swing; important blues women such as Bessie Smith and others. Recorded in the Randolph Student Center, Davis and Elkins College during Blues Week
The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes with earlier dates that others sent to him.