Lomax catalog title: Devil's Dream

Summary

This index record preserves the catalog-title component Devil’s Dream from the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection. It occurs in 1 held item record(s). The title forms are retained as catalog evidence; identical or near-identical titles are not assumed to be the same song, performance, melody, or person.

Catalog scope

The related item records distinguish sound recordings from digitized catalog cards. This record is an index layer over those item articles, not an audio transcription and not a new song-level identification. The representative catalog item and its exact local JSON path are listed in sources:.

Open questions

• Do the corresponding card and audio records refer to the same performance?
• Which performer, family, language, or tune tradition can be established from the recording and independent island sources?
• Are the capitalization and spelling differences meaningful, or only catalog normalization differences?

See also

• Lomax fieldwork and the archival oral tradition
• Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings (1938)
• Alan Lomax Beaver Island catalog-card photographs (1933–1938)