Record ID:
67930968 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no 92017224
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1932-08-02
  • Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Death:
  • 2019-09-16
  • Putnam Valley (N.Y.)
Fields of activity:
  • Folk music--Southern States Photography Motion pictures
Occupations:
  • Singers Guitarists Photographers Motion picture directors Musicologists University and college faculty members
  • Motion picture producers and directors
See also:
Notes:
  • Your struggle is your glory [SR] 1988 labels (John Cohen, producer) container (collector of music on album)
  • LC data base, 5-19-92 (hdg.: Cohen, John)
  • Claghorn, C.E. Biog. dict. of Amer. mus. (Cohen, John; b. 1932, New York City; singer and guitarist)
  • There is no eye, 2001 CIP t.p. (John Cohen) verso t.p. (photographs by John Cohen) text (singer with New Lost City Ramblers; photographer) pub. infor. (b. 1932; studied photography and painting; filmmaker; with New Lost City Ramblers)
  • New York times, viewed online, September 23, 2019 (in obituary dated September 17, 2019: John Cohen; born August 2, 1932, Sunnyside, Queens [New York]; died Monday [September 16, 2019], Putnam Valley, N.Y., at age 87; founder of the New Lost City Ramblers; photographer, filmmaker and musicologist, who devoted his life to the traditional music of the rural South; professor of visual arts at SUNY Purchase College, where he taught photography and drawing from 1972 to 1997)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)924875
Cataloguing source:
  • InU-Mu eng rda InU-Mu DLC Uk DLC OOC HU