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Film, Video The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings & the American Experience

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Title

  • The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings & the American Experience

Summary

  • Stephen Wade presents a talk related to the research for his recent book, "The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience," which takes as its starting point 13 iconic performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and onto the Great Plains. Through decades of research and detective work, musician Stephen Wade tracked down surviving performers and their families, fellow musicians, and community members. Weaving together loving and expert profiles of these performers with the histories of these songs and tunes, Wade brings to life largely unheralded individuals -- farm laborers, state prisoners, school children, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners -- whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, "amplifying tradition's gifts," Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-03-27.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Stephen Wade.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-03-27.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689064

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings & the American Experience. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-27, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689064/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2013) The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings & the American Experience. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-27. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689064/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings & the American Experience. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-27, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689064/>.