Stephen Wade
The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Field Recordings and the American Experience
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The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song Shortenin' Bread, the fiddle tune Bonaparte's Retreat, the blues song Another Man Done Gone, and the spiritual Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down, these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings,…
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The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song Shortenin' Bread, the fiddle tune Bonaparte's Retreat, the blues song Another Man Done Gone, and the spiritual Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down, these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings, they capture not only the words and tunes of traditional songs but also the sounds of life in which the performances were embedded: children laugh, neighbors comment, trucks pass by._x000B__x000B_Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them. He reconstructs the sights and sounds of the recording sessions themselves and how the music worked in all their lives. Some of these performers developed musical reputations beyond these field recordings, but for many, these tracks represent their only appearances on record: prisoners at the Arkansas State Penitentiary jumping on the Library's recording machine in a rendering of Rock Island Line; Ora Dell Graham being called away from the schoolyard to sing the jump-rope rhyme Pullin' the Skiff; Luther Strong shaking off a hungover night in jail and borrowing a fiddle to rip into Glory in the Meetinghouse._x000B__x000B_Reflecting decades of research and detective work, the profiles and abundant photos in The Beautiful Music All Around Us bring to life largely unheralded individuals--domestics, farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners--whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. The book also includes an accompanying CD that presents these thirteen performances, songs and sounds of America in the 1930s and '40s. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, amplifying tradition's gifts, Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference within a democracy.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-252-09400-2
- EAN: 9780252094002
- Produktnummer: 20439252
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 504 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 11'915 KB
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