{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/g73707zc51/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Dr. James F. Roach, \"Song of the Crocodile\", and the First Commercial Recording of a Cajun Folksong"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Patrick Huber (Presenter)","Roberta Freund Schwartz (Chair)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2010-05-21 (Created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["In July 1925, OKeh Records touted its latest recording discovery in a Talking Machine World announcement headlined \"'Cajan' [sic] Folk Song Recorded by General Phono. Corp.\" The brief article claimed that Dr. James F. Roach’s recording of \"Gue Gue Solingaie\" (\"Song of the Crocodile\"), made during OKeh's field trip to New Orleans six months earlier, represented \"the first recording of a 'Cajan' [sic] folk song,\" and predicted that its commercial success would lead to \"further experiments along the same line and the introduction of typical Cajan music and dialect lyrics to many music lovers, via the talking machine.\" This 1925 Talking Machine World article piqued our interest in Dr. Roach and his recording, since it suggested that the first commercial recording of Cajun music actually occurred more than three years before Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux waxed their 1928 Columbia record, \"The Waltz That Carried Me to My Grave\"/\"Lafayette,\" which scholars almost unanimously recognize as the first commercial recordings of Cajun music. Dr. Roach's \"Gue Gue Solingaie,\" in contrast, has largely been forgotten within the field of Cajun music studies, and its existence is rarely mentioned in published histories of the music. For decades, practically nothing was known about the obscure Dr. Roach and his rare recording. Our presentation, based upon two years of research, unravels much of the mystery surrounding him and his first \"Cajan\" record, and explains why his recording has been so casually dismissed by Cajun music scholars and aficionados, even though few have actually heard the record or know anything about him."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["In July 1925, OKeh Records touted its latest recording discovery in a Talking Machine World announcement headlined \"'Cajan' [sic] Folk Song Recorded by General Phono. Corp.\" The brief article claimed that Dr. James F. Roach’s recording of \"Gue Gue Solingaie\" (\"Song of the Crocodile\"), made during OKeh's field trip to New Orleans six months earlier, represented \"the first recording of a 'Cajan' [sic] folk song,\" and predicted that its commercial success would lead to \"further experiments along the same line and the introduction of typical Cajan music and dialect lyrics to many music lovers, via the talking machine.\" This 1925 Talking Machine World article piqued our interest in Dr. Roach and his recording, since it suggested that the first commercial recording of Cajun music actually occurred more than three years before Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux waxed their 1928 Columbia record, \"The Waltz That Carried Me to My Grave\"/\"Lafayette,\" which scholars almost unanimously recognize as the first commercial recordings of Cajun music. Dr. Roach's \"Gue Gue Solingaie,\" in contrast, has largely been forgotten within the field of Cajun music studies, and its existence is rarely mentioned in published histories of the music. For decades, practically nothing was known about the obscure Dr. Roach and his rare recording. Our presentation, based upon two years of research, unravels much of the mystery surrounding him and his first \"Cajan\" record, and explains why his recording has been so casually dismissed by Cajun music scholars and aficionados, even though few have actually heard the record or know anything about him."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128038/file/239765","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2010_Huber_audio.mp3"]},"duration":2383.47244,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128038/file/239765/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128038/file/239765/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/239/765/original/ARSC_conf_2010_Huber_audio.mp3?1714144112","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2383.47244,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128038/file/239765","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}