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Film, Video Traditional Music of Coastal Louisiana: 1934 Lomax Recordings

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Title

  • Traditional Music of Coastal Louisiana: 1934 Lomax Recordings

Summary

  • This talk examines the songs recorded in the summer of 1934 by folklorist John Lomax, with assistance from his son Alan, who was then a teenager. While the music they recorded there has often been described as Cajun or Creole music, what they actually found was much more complex: a diverse admixture of old medieval lays, Continental pop songs, blues ballads, round dance songs, traditional ballads in French, a Scottish jig, and much more. This talk coincides with the release of the book Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana, a study of the 1934 trip.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-12-11.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Education
  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Joshua Caffery.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-12-11.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689286

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Traditional Music of Coastal Louisiana:Lomax Recordings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-11, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689286/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2013) Traditional Music of Coastal Louisiana:Lomax Recordings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-11. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689286/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Traditional Music of Coastal Louisiana:Lomax Recordings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-11, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689286/>.