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From Leadbelly to computerized analysis of folksongs
- Title
- From Leadbelly to computerized analysis of folksongs [sound recording] / [lecture by] Alan Lomax.
- Publication
- Jan. 17, 1993.
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- Description
- 1 sound disc (59 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Alan Lomax, the folk music historian, speaks about his career of over six decades as a musicologist; his family; his godmother; and his first field trips with his father, folklorist John A. Lomax, in the penitentiaries of the American South in the 1930s. He discusses his recordings of many legendary folk musicians, including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton among many others to promote knowledge and appreciation of the world's folk music; his field recordings of thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain, the Georgians of the Caucasus. He talks about the cross-cultural relationships between style in song and dance, which developed a common language to describe the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and how we can measure how those variables are clustered geographically and in relation to the means of subsistence and aspects of social organization. He talks about a computerized multimedia database called The Global Jukebox that he (as an anthropologist of the performing arts) produced, and which surveys the relationship between dance, song, and human history. He sings excerpts from various songs to illustrate his lecture.
- Uniform Title
- Voices at the New York Public Library (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Note
- This recording (recorded by WNYC for the Voices at the New York Public Library radio program) consists of the edited, broadcast version of the original lecture.
- WNYC no. 9115.
- Event (note)
- Recorded Mar. 7, 1989, Celeste Bartos Forum, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.; broadcast Jan. 17, 1993.
- Source (note)
- WNYC;
- Call Number
- *LDC 43554
- OCLC
- 320967475
- Title
- From Leadbelly to computerized analysis of folksongs [sound recording] / [lecture by] Alan Lomax.
- Imprint
- Jan. 17, 1993.
- Event
- Recorded Mar. 7, 1989, Celeste Bartos Forum, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.; broadcast Jan. 17, 1993.
- Source
- Gift; WNYC; NN-RHA
- Added Author
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), donor.
- Research Call Number
- *LDC 43554