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| Title | : | The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience (Music in American Life) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252080912 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
"Extraordinary. A masterpiece of humane scholarship.”--The Wall Street Journal“These stories and the recordings — capturing the voices of everyday people, not pop stars — simply crackle.”-Los Angeles Times
Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down," these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Grea
"The Beautiful Music All Around us" according to Mr. M. Haymes. One of the most important books publishd in the last 20 years and the accompanying CD is unique in its content of some little heard and some superb L.o C. recordings. I never thought I'd see a pic. including the awesome Bozie Surdivant.'Mississippi' Max Haymes. mr. jh bailes said a great accomplishment. this book is brilliantly written with tact and thorough research. the author is expert personally and academically on the playing of instruments and on performing. i first visited the library of congress folk archives 50 years ago and have been familiar since then with the recordings discussed. but i never knew much then, even though these field recordings and some handfuls of similar ones have been the basis of my life-long interest in folk music. i especially admire the author's historical b. American traditional music J. C. Chambers This book, complete with CD, is a treasure of information, history and obscure facts. The author viisted Mississippi in the '90s and interviewed folks who are related to or who knew the performers. The performers were, for the most part, "ordinary" people who sing traditional music from the heart and were recorded by people like John and Alan Lomax in the '30s and '40s. Some of those cuts are on the enclosed CD.If you love traditional music and/or the history of the rural south this book is fo
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