Grapes of Wrath

An online exhibit by English 690 (Spring 2017) at San Francisco State University

Browse Items (13 total)

- Arvin FSA Camp
- Music
- Field recordings
- Songs
- California -- Arvin

Music
Field recordings
Songs

Music
Field recordings
Songs

- Arvin FSA Camp
- Field recordings
- Spoken word
- Square dancing
- California -- Arvin
Field recordings
Spoken word
Square dancing

Scene at Square Dance.jpg
Couples square dancing, note the period dress as well as the venue, with an emphasis on the wood floor.

Orchestra During intermission.jpg
Intermission during square dance; note the sweated shirt of the host.

Dancin in the Migrant Camp.jpg
Saturday night dance. FSA Tulare Migrant Camp. Visalia, California.

Todd, Charles L., 1911-2004 (Collector)
Sonkin, Robert, 1910-1980 (Collector)
Stone, Gussie Ward (Performer)

The Road.tif
Variants of this song have been sung for seventy years
on westering high roads in America. Since 1933 it has
became the song of the migrant families who were tractered out of Texas, dusted out of Oklahoma and flooded out of Arkansas.

Walter Harp, square dance calling; Charles Cook, fiddle; Charles Powell, guitar; Bennie Lindsay, guitar; and Junior Lindsay, harmonica.
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