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Adventures of a Ballad Hunter

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Adventures of a Ballad Hunter

By John Lomax

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About the book

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 reco...Show more

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9780285644137

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Profile Books Ltd

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2018

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Adventures of a Ballad Hunter

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