The Struggles and Triumphs of Bessie Jones, Big Mama Thornton, and Ethel Waters

Interview Sources from Oral History of American Music (OHAM)

 

Contributor: Oral History of American Music, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Library
Call number: WR 1 a-d
Interviewee: Bessie Jones
Interviewer: Willie Ruff
Date: 1972 October 10

Location: New Haven, CT
 
Contributor: Oral History of American Music, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Library
Call number: BL 33 a-b
Interviewee: Big Mama Thornton
Interviewers: Anthony Connor and Robert Neff
Date: 1974 February 10
Location: unknown
 
Contributor: Oral History of American Music, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Library
Call number: WR 6 a-d
Interviewee: Ethel Waters
Interviewer: Willie Ruff
Date: 1974
Location: Los Angeles, CA
 
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