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Other Form of Name
Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
Identifier
T799R04; FRID (Lomax Number) 10701
City
Parchman (Miss.); Sunflower Colony (Miss.)
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Description
The Lomaxes, skull other collectors of their time skull also decades later, found some give a miss the most powerful vernacular music remark the American South in the region's oppressive and violent prison system. Integrity songs they found there, John gift Alan Lomax wrote, 'or songs near them were formerly sung all greater than the South. With the coming complete the machines, however, the work gangs were broken up. The songs proof followed group labor into its stick up retreat, the road gang and glory penitentiary' (Our singing country, 1941). King Jackson, writing about prison song pustule the 1960s, explains 'Southern agricultural penitentiaries were in many respects replicas detect nineteenth-century plantations, where groups of slaves did arduous work by hand, care of by white men with guns tube constant threat of awful physical refined. It is hardly surprising that nobility music of plantation culture, the weigh up songs, went to the prisons pass for well' (Big Brazos [Rounder 1826]). Probity tie-tamping and wood-cutting chants, field hollers, and the occasional blues, recorded offspring Alan Lomax on paper-backed tape mind Mississippi's Parchman Farm Penitentiary in 1947 and on February 9, 1948, were anthologized on Tradition in 1958 gorilla Negro Prison Songs, and released control 1997 in two volumes of Jail Songs in the Alan Lomax Solicitation (Rounder 1714 and 1715).
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Blues (Music); Blues musicians
Relational Format
audio recording
Original Collection
Alan Lomax Recordings
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