Easy Lawd: On Death and Dying: Afro American Mythology and Folklore, audio cassette, OTC 408.41.1
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
setName: label: See more items in
content: Program in African American Culture Collection
label: See more items in
content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986-04-05
container: label: Container
content: Box 136, Cassette 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Audio
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Opening remarks by Howard Bass, program coordinator for the Saturday Live program.
                
Lecture:  On Death and Dying:  Afro-American  Mythology and Folklore 
Bernice Johnson Reagon  discusses Afro-American folktales and superstitions about death, based on oral tradition; and an exploration of the catharsis of the Afro-American funeral.

Performance and Discussion:  Easy Lawd , developed and directed by Eleanor W. Traylor, a specialist  in Afro-American drama and literature.
                
Narrator I - Eleanor Traylor
Narrator II - Bernice Johnson Reagon
Narrator III - Avery Brooks
                	
The performance is presented in six parts

Opening Set I - Prologue

Narrator III
             
Performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock, a women's a cappella group:
"Oh Lord"
"Travelin Shoes"

Set II - Death Watch

Narrator I

Blues selection by John Cephas and Phil Wiggins