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LOGGER'S SHEET 

LOGGER: AndrĂ¡s Goldinger
REEL NUMBER:  3/9
STAGE: AFS Centennial
DATE: 7/3/88
PRESENTOR: Charles Camp
GROUP NAME: "Afro-American Folklore"
REGION/STYLE:
PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION 
Alan Lomax, folklorist - New York, NY.
Horace Boyer, ethnomusicologist - Amherst, Mass
John Vlach, folklorist - Wash., D.C.

CONTENTS

1. C.C. general intros
2. A.L. - first field trips 1933 A.L. was 17 - black communities in Tex..secular/work songs - preachers preached against it sinful - black music first world music phenomena jazz, gospel, rock - John & Alan Lomax went to penitentiaries - songs transformed A.L. - life's work - last 25 yrs - origins (African & Europe) of black music give it stature - this music still unacceptable in many middle class, education problem - how to talk about this music, dance & song - ephemeral - (energy, based in body - tone) Afro vs. European stance - black dance - feet on ground - body shifts - African source - rhythmic intention different - black music - group sound.
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8. C.C. - ebb & flow of spiritual tradition
9. H.B. - Fisk Jubilee Singers - first to - long history - 1871 - first collections of black church music - rise of black churches after Reconstruction once one black music is popularized - other, new music evolves - either "devil" or church" songs - "Land Where I'm Bound" they meet - church people more consciousness in keeping music - gospel history - some spirituals = "museum pieces". 
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H.B. - researcher (example Max Roach, jazz drummer - studies in Africa - tape recorder - "white man) ->  what people show to outsiders may be dif. than community does for itself.
C.C. to J.V. - extending black research to material [[?]]
J.V. - used music research of 100 yr - same systems extended to material codes similar
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