Jail House Bound: John Lomax's First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933 (WVU Press Sound Archives) (CD-Audio)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Jail House Bound In 1933, John Lomax and his young son Alan traveled by car to a number of prisons scattered throughout Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In the nation's most restricted spaces, they recorded African-American convicts, who Lomax thought would be some of the last singers of traditional folk material due to the isolation of the institutions that held them. As a result of this fieldwork, w...
Full description- Publisher: West Virginia University Press
- Published: 01 February 2012
- Format: CD-Audio
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- Categories: Theory Of Music & Musicology | Social & Cultural Anthropology
- ISBN 13: 9781933202334 ISBN 10: 1933202335
- Sales rank: 1,531,158
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Full description for Jail House Bound
In 1933, John Lomax and his young son Alan traveled by car to a number of prisons scattered throughout Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In the nation's most restricted spaces, they recorded African-American convicts, who Lomax thought would be some of the last singers of traditional folk material due to the isolation of the institutions that held them. As a result of this fieldwork, we now have access to a multitude of powerful songs, both well and little known, which provide some understanding of this folk group during the era of Jim Crow in America's South.
