In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of traditional music in newly developed stereo sound. The collection features some of the region's most representative musicians and styles: Delta blues...
Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: drawing of three African American male faces; photo inset of Irving Jones; text reads: ""The most successful song hit of 1901. As introduced and sung by Lew Dockstader.""
Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: photo of James Barton, a Caucasian male in blackface; cartoon drawings satirizing ideas such as ""taxi drivers never cheat"" or ""landlords never raise the rent""
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...
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...