Explore the “Southern Journey” in its entirety, here.Įd Young, Lonnie Young And G.D. The width and breadth of the project is stunning. The endeavor resulted in two influential LP series on Atlantic (1960) and Prestige Records (1962).’Īs mentioned on these pages in the past, I encourage you to listen/investigate the (free) Alan Lomax archives via the Cultural Equity Research Center. These sides were originally issued as the LP Negro Prison Songs and reissued on CD as Prison Songs Vol. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and. Alan Lomax returned to Parchman Farm in 1947-48 and made some remarkable recordings, armed with state-of-the-art technology, a cassette machine. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. As noted, ‘English folksinger Shirley Collins assisted Alan Lomax on the 1959 trip, and his daughter, Anna, accompanied him on the 1960 trip. Alan Lomax ( Janu July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. The five LPs document over 70 hours of Lomax’s 1959-60 field recordings thoughout the American South.

Compiled and annotated by Nathan Salsburg, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Lomax’s “Southern Journey”, Worried is the second of five Alan Lomax collections released by the Portland based Mississippi Records in 2010. Alan Lomax war der Sohn des Musikforschers John Lomax, bei dem er seine Karriere begann. I’ve had this on the mind, and stereo, of late: Worried Now, Won’t Be Worried Long: Field Recordings From Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey, 1959-1960. Juli 2002) war ein US-amerikanischer Folklore- und Musikforscher, der sich auf die frühe Musik der Vereinigten Staaten und ihre Wurzeln spezialisiert hatte.

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