In 1908 John Lomax set out on horseback with an Edison phonograph and wax cylinders to record and preserve America's folk music. He spent the next four decades doing some hard travelling and found over 5,000 songs in Arkansas mountain cabins, Mississippi prison farms, New Orleans saloons, Minnesota lumber camps and Texas cattle camps. He discovered ballads, blues, children's songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs and his recordings inspired ...
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In 1908 John Lomax set out on horseback with an Edison phonograph and wax cylinders to record and preserve America's folk music. He spent the next four decades doing some hard travelling and found over 5,000 songs in Arkansas mountain cabins, Mississippi prison farms, New Orleans saloons, Minnesota lumber camps and Texas cattle camps. He discovered ballads, blues, children's songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs and his recordings inspired generations of musicians from Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger to Billy Bragg and Kurt Cobain. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter is Lomax's own memoir of an eventful life containing vibrant, often haunting, stories of the people he met and recorded, as well as the lyrics for dozens of songs. Lomax describes singers and musicians from Silver Jack and Big Bill Swanson to Lead Belly, he relates the stories behind some of the twentieth-century's most important songs, 'Home on the Range' and 'Goodnight Irene' to 'Rock Island Line' and 'In the Pines'. Discover his trip to Parchman Convict Farm where he first heard 'The Midnight Special' and the funeral home in South Carolina where he heard the spiritual classic 'Honey in the Rock'. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter is essential reading for all music fans-from folkies, alt-country to blues and roots music, as well as a perceptive portrait of America's history.
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Some buckling to binding's cloth coating. Good., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, xi, 302 pp, In a rubbed and lightly-stained dustwrapper. Includes sketches by Ken Chamberlain.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very Good in Poor jacket. Country & Folk Composer /Music. 8vo. 1st edition (1947. ) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 302 pages. This book is in very good condition with some slight shelf wear to edges. Some toning due to age. Interior clean and tight. The dust jacket is in poor condition with bumping and tearing to corners and edges with a piece missing from top of back cover. "--collecting, recording and preserving folk songs, ballads, and other vocal and verbal expressions--that became a part of the folk archives at the Library of Congress...Lomax's book recounting of his ballad hunting is important historical work that involved preserving significant aspects American folk culture. during the 1930s and 1940s, especially as this folk culture related to African Americans of the period." Blue spine/White text.
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Ken Chamberlain. Octavo. 302pp. Publisher's decorated red cloth. Small creases at the edges of several pages, small stains on the front board, about very good lacking the dustwrapper.
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Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Ken Chamberlain. Octavo. 302pp. Publisher's decorated red cloth. A little foxing and soiling on the boards, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (Ethnomusicologists, Music, Ballads, Autobiography) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
