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Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history

Melodies and words for over 200 authentic folk songs and ballads from all parts of the country -- spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabies, courting songs, work songs, Cajun airs, breakdowns, many more.

Folklorist Lomax offers a rollicking memoir of his journey back into blues country. A "singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" ("Kirkus Reviews"). of photos.

A classic in the field of jazz and African-American studies, this is a collaborative biography, with a strong folkloric element (Jelly Roll having mastered the role of trickster), by two of the greats in American popular music: Alan Lomax and (Ferdinand) Jelly Roll Morton, the great New Orleans musician and originator of jazz.

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. "John Henry, " "Goin' Home, " "Little Brown Jug, " "Alabama-Bound, " "Black Betty, "The Hammer Song, " "Jesse James, " "Down in the Valley, " "The Ballad of Davy Crockett, " and many more.

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Alan Lomax iniziò a registrare le canzoni folk dei braccianti afroamericani negli anni trenta, insieme al padre John. L'attrezzatura era rudimentale e fissava il suono su dischi in alluminio della durata di pochi minuti per lato. Solo in un secondo momento subentrarono i dischi in acetato di maggiore durata, che permisero di documentare funzioni religiose o narrazioni della tradizione orale. Guadagnandosi poco a poco la fiducia di questa gente...

Alan Lomax (1915�02) was a folklorist, oral historian, and ethnomusicologist who collected thousands of examples of twentieth-century folk music and recorded songs all over the world. Woody Guthrie (1912�) was a musician, singer-songwriter, and political activist who created a staggering number of original songs, writings, drawings, paintings, poems, and prose pieces. He is the author of Bound for Glory and Seeds of Man. Pete Seeger is a Gramm...