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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Stone, Jonathan W., author.     Subjects     Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948.     Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.     African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.     Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.     Folk songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stone, Jonathan W., author.       by title:      Listening to the Lom...         MARC Display

Listening to the Lomax Archive : the sonic rhetorics of African American folksong in the 1930s / Jonathan W. Stone. by Stone, Jonathan W., author. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021. Subjects Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948.   Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.   African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.   Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.   Folk songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9780472038558 (paperback) 0472038559 (paperback) Description:  xvii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 Lomaxes' field recordings--including their prison recordings and a long-form oral history of jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton--contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises. Stone argues that folksongs communicate complex historical experiences in a seemingly simple package, and can thus be a key element--a sonic rhetoric--for interpreting the ebb and flow of cultural ideals within contemporary historical moments. He contends that the Lomaxes, aware of the power of folk music, used the folksongs they collected to increase national understanding of and agency for the subjects of their recordings even as they used the recordings to advance their own careers. Listening to the Lomax Archive gives readers the opportunity to listen in on these seemingly contradictory dualities, demonstrating that they are crucial to the ways that we remember and write about the subjects of the Lomaxes' archive and other repositories of historicized sound."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 781.6296 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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