NRR Project: Rosina Cohen oral narrative from the Lorenzo D. Turner Collection

 

NRR Project: Rosina Cohen oral narrative from the Lorenzo D. Turner Collection

Recorded by Lorenzo D. Turner

1932

This is an academic entry, none of which can be accessed online. The recording is merely a representative piece of an enormous study composed of interviews, stories, and songs in the Gullah dialect by Dr. Turner, who discovered Gullah speakers quite by accident and then took an immense interest in their language and culture.

The Gullah is a distinct African American subgroup, whose members live along the Eastern Atlantic seaboard between North Carolina and Florida. Due to their relative isolation from mainstream culture, they retained many African words and mean of expression, all of which Dr. Turner studied thoroughly. His work on their language and culture is still referred to today.

For a more complete picture of the entry, please refer to the excellent explanatory essay by Alcione M. Amos, which can be found here.

The National Recording Registry Project tracks one writer’s expedition through all the recordings in the National Recording Registry in chronological order. Next up: Show Boat.