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Accompanying CD includes music and spoken word from the Archive of Folk Culture. Full track listing and production credits on p. 80-84.
The collections in the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture contain one-of-a-kind documentation of traditional cultural expressions that date from the end of the 19th century through the dawn of the 21st. Today, there are more than 3 million items of ethnographic documentation in the archive, a treasure trove that represents over 100 years of fieldwork. Chapters: A National Project with Many Workers; Folk Music & Song; Story & Other Narrative Forms; Dance; Material Culture; Community Life & Celebration; For Further Reading; & Music & Spoken Word from the Archive of Folk Culture: A Compact Disc of Audio Recordings Selected by the Staff of the American Folklife Center. Color & b&w photos.
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Features the Archive of Folk Culture within the American Folklife Center of the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Notes that the Archive is a repository for American folk music, and that it includes photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. Offers online access to collections from the archive. Links to other related sites on the archive and the American Folklife Center.
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South. Here are th...