Bibliograph

Parchman Farm, photographs and field recordings 1947-1959, Alan Lomax

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Parchman Farm, photographs and field recordings 1947-1959, Alan Lomax

Language

eng

resource.accompanyingMatter

libretto or texthistorical information

Form of composition

multiple forms

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Main title

Parchman Farm

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Oclc number

892897349

Responsibility statement

Alan Lomax

Sub title

photographs and field recordings 1947-1959

Summary

"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. A chilling account of how slavery persisted well into the 20th century in the institutionalized form of the chain gang, Parchman Farm includes two CDs with 44 of Lomax's remastered audio recordings and a book of more than 70 of Lomax's photographs, many published here for the first time"--Publisher

Table Of Contents

Book: Foreword / by Alan Lomax -- Introduction / by Anna Lomax Wood -- Essay / by Bruce Jackson -- Disc 1 -- Disc 2 -- Heuston Earms interview

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