| LC control no. | n 85373137 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cotten, Elizabeth |
| Variant(s) | Cotton, Elizabeth, 1893-1987 Cotton, Libba, 1893-1987 Cotten, Libba, 1893-1987 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1893-01-05 |
| Death date | 1987-06-29 |
| Place of birth | Chapel Hill (N.C.) |
| Place of death | Syracuse (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Folkways Records |
| Profession or occupation | Folk musicians Singers Banjoists Guitarists |
| Found in | Her When I'm gone [SR] p1979: labels (Elizabeth Cotten) LC data base, 9/17/86 (hdg.: Cotten, Elizabeth) New Lost City Ramblers. 20th anniversary concert [SR] p1986: container (Elizabeth Cotton; Elizabeth "Libba" Cotton) Amer. Grove (Cotten, Elizabeth; b. near Chapel Hill, NC, 1893) Cotten, E. Freight train and other North Carolina folk songs and tunes [SR] p1989: label (Elizabeth Cotten) insert (d. June 29, 1987, Syracuse, N.Y.) Her Profile--guitarist Libba Cotten, p1984. African American National Biography, accessed December 7, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cotten, Elizabeth; folk musician / singer, banjoist, guitarist; born 05 January 1893 near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States; went to elementary school; played banjo and guitar; famous for two songs - Freight Train and I'm Going Away; launched her own professional music career in her mid-sixties; in 1958 Mike Seeger recorded her on an album called Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar for Folkways Records; received a Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984; in 1985 she recorded Elizabeth Cotten Alive (Arhoolie), which won a Grammy Award; died 29 June1987 in Syracuse, New York, United States) Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (website), viewed Nov. 10, 2022: Guide to the Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten Oral History Interview 1980, Cage 5134 (Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (1893-1987) was an African American musician who spent much of her life around Chapel Hill, North Carolina, cleaning houses. She taught herself to play guitar and composed songs starting as a pre-teen. When she was in her 40s, she moved to Washington D.C. be with her daughter, who was pregnant. There she met and eventually became a house keeper and child sitter for Ruth Crawford and Charles Seeger, the former a composer and music teacher and the latter an ethno-musicologist (also the parents of folk singers Pete, Mike and Peggy Seeger). After many years with the Seeger family, she rediscovered her love of and ability to play guitar, and began traveling and playing with Mike Seeger in the 1960's. Her most well-known song is titled "Freight Train.") <http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg5134.htm> |
| Invalid LCCN | n 87121204 |
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