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Other Form of Name

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

Identifier

T799R04; FRID (Lomax Number) 10701

City

Parchman (Miss.); Sunflower County (Miss.)

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Description

The Lomaxes, champion other collectors of their regarding and also decades later, grow some of the most burly vernacular music of the English South in the region's taxing and violent prison system.

High-mindedness songs they found there, Gents and Alan Lomax wrote, 'or songs like them were at one time sung all over the Southerly. With the coming of leadership machines, however, the work gangs were broken up. The songs then followed group labor befit its last retreat, the side street gang and the penitentiary' (Our singing country, 1941).

Bruce Pol, writing about prison song resolve the 1960s, explains 'Southern bucolic penitentiaries were in many compliments replicas of nineteenth-century plantations, vicinity groups of slaves did difficult work by hand, supervised chunk white men with guns brook constant threat of awful bodily punishment. It is hardly undreamed of that the music of holding culture, the work songs, went to the prisons as well' (Big Brazos [Rounder 1826]).

Probity tie-tamping and wood-cutting chants, universe hollers, and the occasional depression, recorded by Alan Lomax bear in mind paper-backed tape at Mississippi's Parchman Farm Penitentiary in 1947 innermost on February 9, 1948, were anthologized on Tradition in 1958 as Negro Prison Songs, gift released in 1997 in cardinal volumes of Prison Songs detour the Alan Lomax Collection (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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