Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947-1959

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In 1947, 1948 and 1959, renowned folklorist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) went behind the barbed wire into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck--and, in 1959, a camera--Lomax documented as best an outsider could the stark and savage conditions of the prison farm, where the black inmates labored "from can't to can't," chopping timber, clearing ground and picking cotton for the state.
They sang as they worked,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0981734294

ISBN13:9780981734293

Release Date:September 2015

Publisher:Dust to Digital

Length:124 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.8" x 9.8"

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Arts, Music & Photography Music Photography

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Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947-1959

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