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The Land Where the Blues Began ist ein Dokumentarfilm des US-amerikanischen Musikforschers Alan Lomax. Zwischen 1978 und 1985 machte Lomax im Süden und Südwesten der Vereinigten Staaten Aufnahmen, die 1991 als American Patchwork Series in fünf Filmen von je 60 Minuten im amerikanischen Fernsehen auf PBS gezeigt wurden.
The Land Where the Blues Began is both a fascinating recollection of a pivotal time in American music history and an intimate portrait of the struggles blues musicians faced in the Jim Crow South. The blues were an organic expression of Black humanity in a place where slavery had been outlawed but where segregation, violence, and racial ...
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The land where the blues began Bookreader Item Preview ... The land where the blues began by Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002. Publication date 1993 Topics Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History and criticism, African Americans -- Mississippi ...
21. Okt. 2010 · The land where the blues began. 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.
18. Mai 1993 · The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history. Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, The Land Where the Blues Began is now available in a handsome new paperback edition.
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A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and ’40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s music heritage.
29. Sept. 2011 · Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1993. Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-514), discography (p. 515-518), filmography (p. 519-522), and index. Access-restricted-item.
