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151 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. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 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". 10. 11. 12. 13. A.L. 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 (over)
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