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Synopsis
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 life history of Big Bill Broonzy, describing the appalling injustices inflicted on him and his fellow Blacks. In this account, Lomax 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
About the Author
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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- PublisherMinerva
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0749397330
- ISBN 13 9780749397333
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages540
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