LG016 Interview: Mahalia Jackson (LG016Goreau_Side1)

LG016Goreau_Side1

Goreau, Laurraine

Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972

1967-06-23

2014-03-24
2014-03-24

Side 1 and 2: Interview with Mahalia Jackson at her South Indiana Avenue home in Chicago, Illinois on 1967-06-23. [00:00 - 31:34] Mahalia Jackson talks about her first serious heart attack during a performance - 1:32. Jackson describes this and a dream she had a few days before involving a religious statue - 2:37. Jackson describes the trouble she had in the hospital and how working in New Orleans in her youth could have made her ill years later - 9:36. She mentions the letters she received while in the hospital from the President and famous actors and musicians - 15:50. Jackson briefly talks about local medicine traditions in New Orleans - 17:40. She talks about being sick during her tour of Europe and then recovering enough to perform for President Johnson at the White House - 21:37. Jackson then talks about her early involvement in political movements shortly after the second World War - 28:10. [00:00 - 31:33] Continued on LG016Goreau_Side2, Mahalia Jackson talks about the dreams she had and her relationship with Jesus. She also talks about recording her first record and being discovered, followed by an excerpt from that record - 10:00. Jackson describes her memories of Christmas.

31 min., 15 sec.

sound recording

Audio

interviews

Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University Special Collections

Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059

https://archives.tulane.edu/

Civil rights movements
Christianity
Music trade

New Orleans (La.)
Europe

Nineteen sixties
Nineteen twenties
Nineteen fifties

Tulane University Digital Library

eng

LG016_01.mp3

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This recording was digitized in 2014 by George Blood, LP.

LG016 Interview: Mahalia Jackson, Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059, Tulane University Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

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