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Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings

Door Joshua Clegg Caffery

Categorie	Muziekgeschiedenis
Boeknummer	#338035-XC30
Titel	Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings
Auteur	Clegg Caffery, Joshua
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2013
ISBN10	0807152013
ISBN13	9780807152010
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original hardcover, dust jacket, numerous (full page) b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, took an eighteen-year-old Alan and a 300-pound aluminum disk recorder into the rice fields of Jennings, along the waterways of New Iberia, and behind the gates of Angola State Penitentiary to collect vestiges of African American and Acadian musical tradition. These recordings now serve as the foundational document of indigenous Louisiana music. Although widely recognized by scholars as a key artifact in the understanding of American vernacular music, most of the recordings by John and Alan L... (Lees verder)omax during their expedition across the central-southern fringe of Louisiana were never transcribed or translated, much less studied in depth. This volume presents, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of the 1934 corpus and unveils a multifaceted story of traditional song in one of the country's most culturally dynamic regions. Through his textual and comparative study of the songs contained in the Lomax collection, Joshua Clegg Caffery provides a musical history of Louisiana that extends beyond Cajun music and zydeco to the rural blues, Irish and English folk songs, play-party songs, slave spirituals, and traditional French folk songs that thrived at the time of these recordings. Intimate in its presentation of Louisiana folklife and broad in its historical scope, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana honors the legacy of John and Alan Lomax by retrieving these musical relics from obscurity and ensuring their understanding and appreciation for generations to come.
Pagina's	346
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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