song Archives - Eirini Lachana Eirini Lachana, photography Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:41:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://eirinilachana.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-2-32x32.jpg song Archives - Eirini Lachana 32 32 Black Betty – meaning and origin https://eirinilachana.com/black-betty-meaning-and-origin/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:38:25 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1417 “Black Betty”  is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. The song was first recorded in the field by US musicologists John and Alan Lomax in December 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James “Iron Head” Baker and […]

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