"Music with the bark on": the southern journeys of John and Alan Lomax.

From: Southern Cultures | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

John and Alan Lomax preserved the South's musical diversity, creating a national audience for traditional southern music. The father-son team has recorded southerns and their music in churches, homes, and fields. Their work has become the most complete sonic maps of the South. The Lomax's carried their microphones throughout the region to seek "music with the bark on."

I was impressed again that the South was still a rich area, rich in antiquities and still producing new sounds. Whatever there remained of creativity in our American folk tradition lay here, waiting for a careless and ...

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