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. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stone, Jonathan W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Temas:
Lomax, John A. > (John Avery), > 1867-1948.
Lomax, Alan, > 1915-2002.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Folk music > United States > History and criticism.
Musique folklorique > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC / General
African Americans > Music.
Folk music.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • For Pete's sake : Audio preface
  • Introduction : Finding folkness in the rhetorical tradition (Turn, turn, turn)
  • Interlude I : Resimplifications
  • Sonic rhetorical historiography : Reorienting authenticity during the Interwar period
  • Rhetoric, representation, and race in the Lomax prison recordings
  • Interlude II : Oral history's exigence
  • Inventing jazz : Jelly Roll Morton and the sonic rhetorics of hot musical performance
  • Interlude III : Popular front education
  • Folksong on the radio : The sound of broadcast democracy on Columbis' American School of the Air
  • Conclusion : Hearing the Lomax Archive
  • Appendix : List of audio resources.

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