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Listening to the Lomax Archive : the sonic rhetorics of African American folksong in the 1930s /

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In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the "American Negro" in several southern African-American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Jonathan W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Lomax, John A., > Jr. > (John Avery), > 1907-1974.
Lomax, Alan, > 1915-2002.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Folk songs, English > United States > History and criticism.
Folk songs, English > United States > Texts > History and criticism.
African American prisoners > Songs and music > History and criticism.
United States > History > 1933-1945.
African Americans > Music.
Folk songs, English.
United States.
1933-1945
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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