
Jail House Bound
John Lomax's First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933
Mark A. Jackson(Author)
West Virginia University Press
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2012
Software
CD-ROM
978-1-933202-33-4 (ISBN)
Description
In 1933, John Lomax and his young son Alan traveled by car to a number of prisons scattered throughout Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In the nation's most restricted spaces, they recorded African-American convicts, who Lomax thought would be some of the last singers of traditional folk material due to the isolation of the institutions that held them. As a result of this fieldwork, we now have access to a multitude of powerful songs, both well and little known, which provide some understanding of this folk group during the era of Jim Crow in America's South.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Morganstown
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 135 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
78 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933202-33-4 (9781933202334)
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