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Oral History Interview with Oliver Johnson, October 30, 2008
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Oliver Johnson. Johnson worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1938-1940, driving trucks, building a ski lodge on Mt. Spokane and fighting forest fires. He provides some details of his experiences with the CCC. He joined the Navy in December of 1940. He trained as an Aviation Machinist Mate and provides details of his training days, graduating June of 1941. He was assigned to the test flight line and stationed in Hawaii at Kaneohe Naval Air Station. He worked on engines and the fuselage, making patches, sheet metal work and electrical work. He provides details of life on the island during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. Johnson later served in the Korean War and was discharged in July of 1960
Oral History Interview with Oliver Johnson, October 30, 2008
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Oliver Johnson. Johnson worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1938-1940, driving trucks, building a ski lodge on Mt. Spokane and fighting forest fires. He provides some details of his experiences with the CCC. He joined the Navy in December of 1940. He trained as an Aviation Machinist Mate and provides details of his training days, graduating June of 1941. He was assigned to the test flight line and stationed in Hawaii at Kaneohe Naval Air Station. He worked on engines and the fuselage, making patches, sheet metal work and electrical work. He provides details of life on the island during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. Johnson later served in the Korean War and was discharged in July of 1960
Letter from J. A. Oliver, Agricultural Department, Maryland State College, to W. T. Johnson
No full textLetter from J. A. Oliver, Agricultural Department, Maryland State College, to W. T. Johnson, concerning his previous association with S. B. Simmons and congratulating Johnson on the opening of the S. B. Simmons camp. Note for souvenir program
Letter re: Oliver Knight
No full textLetter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Amon Carter regarding Johnson providing a job for Oliver Knight
The British ‘Bluesman’ Paul Oliver and the Nature of Transatlantic Blues Scholarship
No full textRecent revisionist studies have argued that much of what is known about music known as the blues’ has been 'invented' by the writing of enthusiasts far removed from the African American culture that created the music. Elijah Wald and Marybeth Hamilton in particular have attempted to sift through the clouds of romanticism, and tried to unveil more empirical histories that were previously obscured by the fallacious genre distinctions conjured up during the 1960s blues revival. While this revisionist scholarship has shed light on some previously ignored historical facts, writers have tended to concentrate on the romanticism of blues writing strictly from an American perspective, failing to acknowledge the genesis and influence of transatlantic scholarship, and therefore ignoring the work of the most prolific and influential blues scholar of the twentieth century, British writer Paul Oliver. By examining the core of Oliver’s research and writing during the 1950s and 1960s, this study aims to place Oliver in his rightful place at the centre of blues historiography. His scholarship allows a more detailed appreciation of the manner in which the blues was studied, through lyrics, recordings, oral histories, photography and African American literature. These historical sources were interpreted in accordance with the author’s attitudes to the commercial popular music, which allowed the ‘reconstruction’ of an African American ‘folk’ culture in which the blues became the antithesis of pop. Importantly, this study seeks to transcend dominant discourses of national cultural ownership or ethnocentrism, and demonstrate that representations of African American music and culture were constructed within a transatlantic context. The blues is music with roots in the African American experience within the United States; however, as Paul Oliver’s writing shows, its reception and representation were not limited by the same national, cultural or racial boundaries
Letter re: Oliver Knight
No full textLetter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Katrine Deakins, secretary to Amon Carter, acknowledging her letter providing information on Oliver Knight, for whom Johnson said he could provide a job
Funeral Service for Atty. Oliver W. Johnson
No full textFuneral program for Atty. Oliver M. Johnson. The funeral was held December 24, 1979 at Sutton-Sutton Chapel, officiated by Rev. D. Timms. Funeral arrangements were made through Sutton-Sutton Mortuary and he was buried in Eastview Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas
Rhythm party at varieton / Sy Oliver and his orch.
No full textComprend : Sh-boom / Barry Frank, chantSy Oliver and his orch. - Istanbul / Snooky Lanson, chant ; Sy Oliver and his orch. - Ricochet / Snooky Lanson, chant ; Sy Oliver and his orch. - Skokiann / the Eight Bells ; Sy Oliver and his orch. - This ole house / Betty Johnson, chant ; Sy Oliver and his orch. - Crazy' bout you baby / the Four Bells, chant ; Sy Oliver and his orch.BnF-Partenariats, Collection sonore - BelieveContient une table des matière
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