#Alan_Lomax: The Land Where the Blues Began (1979, 1993)
The Land Where the #Blues Began is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). A self-described “song-hunter,” Alan Lomax traveled the #Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and 40s, at first with his father John Lomax, later in the company sometimes of black folklorists like John W. Work III, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets, jook joints and dance halls, prisons and churches, Lomax recorded such greats as Leadbelly, Fred McDowell, and Muddy Waters, all of whom made their debut recordings with him.
C’est un #livre
http://monoskop.org/images/1/17/Alan_Lomax_The_Land_Where_the_Blues_Began.pdf [#pdf]
Et un #documentaire visible en ligne sur
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,109
