The Lomaxes, and other collectors of their time and also decades later, found some of the most powerful vernacular music of the American South in the region's oppressive and violent prison system. The songs they found there, John and Alan Lomax...
Books reviewed are:Donald R. Adams, Jr., Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girards Bank 1812-1831 Reviewed by Michelle Hamer; Fred Bateman, Editor, Business in the New South: A Historical Perspective (Reviewed by Horace R....