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In 1942 Alan Lomax set off for the Mississippi Delta in the American Deep South as the head of a four-person team to make field recordings of Black American folk music for the Library of Congress. This book recounts their travels, recording impromptu sessions and interviews, and it describes the hostility that Lomax and his assistants (an Argentinian and two Black Americans) suffered from small-town white hierarchy. Lomax met many of the greats of blues music. He describes the sessions he spent with a barefoot young Muddy Waters out on the plantation, making the first-ever recordings of the man he met again years later driving a large Cadillac. He describes his meeting with Little Robert Johnson's mother shortly after the singer's death by poisoning and he quotes word for word the entire life history of Big Bill Broonzy, describing the appalling injustices inflicted on him and his fellow Blacks. This book paints a picture of life in the Deep South of the 1940s and the making of the blues.
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Without Lomax it’s possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground.”
—Brian Eno
No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own.”
—Nat Hentoff
If not for Lomax, few people would have heard Tom Dooley’ or Goodnight Irene’ and Bob Zimmerman might be singing Feelings’ at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota.”
—Newsweek
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—Brian Eno
No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own.”
—Nat Hentoff
If not for Lomax, few people would have heard Tom Dooley’ or Goodnight Irene’ and Bob Zimmerman might be singing Feelings’ at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota.”
—Newsweek
Alan Lomax is an ethnomusicologist, record producer, and network radio host/writer. His work includes the prize-winning 1990 PBS television series American Patchwork and the multimedia interactive database called the The Global Jukebox, which he produced as an anthropologist for Columbia University and Hunter College.
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- PublisherMethuen Publishing Ltd
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0413678504
- ISBN 13 9780413678508
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages512
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