This fascinating 2001 reproduction of Jelly Roll Morton's original 1950s biography includes Morton's own colorful and often embroidered account of his life, as well as folklorist Alan Lomax's riveting account of his investigations into the legendary pianist's roots in New Orleans. Born into a French Creole family near the end of the 19th century, ...
Lomax, who has done more than anyone else to make the black music of the South known as one of the glorious expressions of American art, sums up his 60 years of "discovering" the African-American musical heritage in this singular journey through the Mississippi Delta. 16 pages of photographs.
In 1942 Alan Lomax set off for the Mississippi Delta in the American Deep South as the head of a four-person team, to make field recordings of Black American folk music for the Library of Congress. This book recounts their travels, recording impromptu sessions and interviews, and it describes the hostility that Lomax and his assistants (an ...
Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. It has been nearly thirty years since she originally published Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, and the music found here tells the story of the "Singing Ritchie Family" at a time when railroads, coal mines, and hillbilly radio were making ...
Featuring introductions, speeches, and album liner notes by the noted musicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax, as well as descriptions of the numerous artists he recorded in over five decades of musical exploration, many of the essays anthologized here reflect the changes taking place in American folk music as its popularity and commercial ...
Melodies and words for over 200 authentic folk songs and ballads from all parts of the country -- spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabies, courting songs, work songs, Cajun airs, breakdowns, many more.
"Never Without a Song" focuses on the centrality of folksong in the life of Jennie Devlin (1865-1952), a woman who had worked for years as a 'bound-out girl' along the New York-Pennsylvania border. Katharine Newman met Devlin in 1936 and compiled information about the older woman's life and music. Half a century later Newman returned to her ...
By devoting his life to recording the music of cultures that are largely ignored or are on the verge of extinction, Alan Lomax has preserved forever a magnificent musical heritage. This delightful book is both a collection of spirited songs and a unique appreciation of the Caribbean cultures out of which they have arisen. Lomax collects here 68 ...
Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures, by ethnomusicologists, by traditional musicologists as well. Drawing on writers from music, anthropology, sociology, and the related fields, The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that define the field-the relation between music and culture-and present ...
This is a biography of the New Orleans jazz pianist, based on recordings which the author made at the Library of Congress Archive of America, with Jelly Roll Morton playing the piano and talking about himself.
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