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Listening to the Lomax Archive

- The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

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In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the ""American Negro"" in several southern African-American prisons. This volume asks how the Lomaxes' field recordings contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780472038558
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 258
  • Udgivet:
  • 29. november 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 229x153x24 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 434 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..
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In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the ""American Negro"" in several southern African-American prisons. This volume asks how the Lomaxes' field recordings contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises.

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