Alan Lomax

'The Land Where the Blues Began'

Bog | Engelsk

Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream Without Lomax its possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beat

'Folk Song Style and Culture'

Bog | Engelsk

Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range