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100	1		_aStone, Jonathan W., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aListening to the Lomax Archive : _bThe Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s / _cJonathan W. Stone.
264		1	_aAnn Arbor, Michigan : _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _c2021.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©2021.
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520	3		_aIn 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the “American Negro” in several southern African American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the Lomaxes’ field recordings—including their prison recordings and a long-form oral history of jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton—contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises. Stone argues that folksongs communicate complex historical experiences in a seemingly simple package, and can thus be a key element—a sonic rhetoric—for interpreting the ebb and flow of cultural ideals within contemporary historical moments. He contends that the Lomaxes, aware of the power of folk music, used the folksongs they collected to increase national understanding of and agency for the subjects of their recordings even as they used the recordings to advance their own careers. Listening to the Lomax Archive gives readers the opportunity to listen in on these seemingly contradictory dualities, demonstrating that they are crucial to the ways that we remember and write about the subjects of the Lomaxes’ archive and other repositories of historicized sound. Throughout Listening to the Lomax Archive, there are a number of audio resources for readers to listen to, including songs, oral histories, and radio program excerpts. Each resource is marked with a ♫ in the text. Visit https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9871097#resources to access this audio content.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aFolk music. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00929383
650		7	_aAfrican Americans _xMusic. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00799648
650		0	_aFolk music _zUnited States _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xMusic _xHistory and criticism.
600	1	7	_aLomax, John A. _q(John Avery), _d1867-1948. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01757083
600	1	7	_aLomax, Alan, _d1915-2002. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00013477
600	1	0	_aLomax, Alan, _d1915-2002.
600	1	0	_aLomax, John A. _q(John Avery), _d1867-1948.
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan), _epublisher.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/97744/
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