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

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
Corporate Author: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher (publisher)
Other Authors: Stone, Jonathan W., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2021.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009637725106719
Table of Contents:
  • For Pete's sake : Audio preface
  • Introduction : Finding folkness in the rhetorical tradition (Turn, turn, turn)
  • Interlude I : Resimplifications
  • Sonic rhetorical historiography : Reorienting authenticity during the Interwar period
  • Rhetoric, representation, and race in the Lomax prison recordings
  • Interlude II : Oral history's exigence
  • Inventing jazz : Jelly Roll Morton and the sonic rhetorics of hot musical performance
  • Interlude III : Popular front education
  • Folksong on the radio : The sound of broadcast democracy on Columbis' American School of the Air
  • Conclusion : Hearing the Lomax Archive
  • Appendix : List of audio resources.