The Land Where the Blues Began is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 19for the PBS American Patchwork series (). A self-described "song-hunter," Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the s and 40s, at first with his father John Lomax, later in the company sometimes of black folklorists like John W. Work III, armed with primitive recording . · An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television and broadcast on PBS in This re-release in includes two hours of additional music/10(17). New York: Pantheon Books, Alan Lomax’s well-known skills as a folklorist were complemented by his ability to convey his findings with the kind of evocative prose that makes The Land Where the Blues Began such a fascinating read. Lomax relates the trials, tribulations and triumphs of his ventures to Mississippi (and Arkansas and Memphis) in , , and , including his historic .
The bluesmen were the bards of America's last frontier, the rowdy Mississippi Delta, in the days of the cotton boom, of levee and railroad building. Alan Lomax takes us on an adventure into the "bad old days" of the Delta. Weaving together the tales of muleskinners and roustabouts, church matrons and convicts, children and blind street singers, Lomax gives us the rich, sorrow-ridden background. The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax starting at $ The Land Where the Blues Began has 3 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. Orders of are accepted for higher levels only (University, Master's, PHD). Please pay attention that your current order level was automatically changed from High School/College to Land Where The Blues Began, The|Alan Lomax University. Contact Info. +1 () +1 () Essay Writer.
New York: Pantheon Books, Alan Lomax’s well-known skills as a folklorist were complemented by his ability to convey his findings with the kind of evocative prose that makes The Land Where the Blues Began such a fascinating read. Lomax relates the trials, tribulations and triumphs of his ventures to Mississippi (and Arkansas and Memphis) in , , and , including his historic sessions with Muddy Waters, Son House, Honeyboy Edwards, Fred McDowell, Sam Chatmon, Forrest. Alan Lomax's film, "The Land Where the Blues Began," was part of his excellent PBS series "American Patchwork," focusing on different aspects of American folk song and jazz. This particular film, containing music by and interviews with several Delta blues musicians, is a deeply felt and sympathetic documents of the conditions under which many of these blues players lived and which inspired their music. 'The Blues Began' then, basically, recounts Lomax's travels through the Southern United States over three journeys, once with his father in the thirties, again in the forties and in the eighties with a PBS film crew, where they visited prisons, plantations, and work camps (often with little to differentiate them), churches, crap games and juke joints.
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