| LC control no. | n 95010089 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McCormick, Mack |
| Variant(s) | McCormick, Robert Burton |
| Birth date | 1930-08-03 |
| Death date | 2015-11-18 |
| Place of birth | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Houston (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Blues musicians |
| Profession or occupation | Folklorists Ethnomusicologists |
| Found in | The unexpurgated folk songs of men, 1960: label (Mack McCormick, composer) New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 27, 2015 (in obituary published Nov. 25: Mack McCormick; b. Robert Burton McCormick, Aug. 3, 1930, Pittsburgh; d. Nov. 18, Houston, aged 85; folklorist who spent a lifetime searching out forgotten or unrecorded blues singers all over Texas, helped revive the career of Lightning Hopkins, and unearthed a trove of historical material on hundreds of blues singers, including Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lead Belly) |
| Associated language | eng |
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