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Oral history interview with Linda Tillery, 1999 May 25, 2003

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Identifier: M450.05.00010
Abstract Linda Tillery recounts remembrances of growing up in a family environment imbued with African American music. In spite of this early exposure, however, it was not until she was 41 years old, after her parents died in 1990, that her interest in understanding African American folk music and spirituals deepened. At this time she embarked on an oral history project to study spirituals by researching written and recorded sources found in key U.S. archives and by interviewing primarily older...
Dates: 1999 May 25; Issued: 2003