Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana : The 1934 Lomax Recordings /

Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of Am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caffery, Joshua Clegg
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lomax, Alan > 1915-2002
Lomax, Alan, > 1915-2002
Lomax, Alan, > 1915-2002 > Ethnomusicological collections.
Volkslied
Folk music
Musikethnologie
Folk songs.
Folk music.
Ethnomusicology > Private collections.
Cajun music.
African Americans > Music.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Musique cajun > Louisiane > Histoire et critique.
Chansons folkloriques > Louisiane > Histoire et critique.
African Americans > Louisiana > Music > History and criticism.
Cajun music > Louisiana > History and criticism.
Folk music > Louisiana > History and criticism.
Folk songs > Louisiana > History and criticism.
Louisiana
Louisiana.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, took an eighteen-year-old Alan and a 300-pound aluminum disk recorder into the rice fields of Jennings, along the waterways of New Iberia, and behind the gates of Angola State Penitentiary to collect vestiges of African American and Acadian musical tradition. These recordings now serve as the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9780807152027

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