Bernard MacMahon
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
"American Epic, a historic music project ... explores the pivotal recording journeys at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge portable recording technology captured the breadth of American music and made it available to the world. It was, in a very real way, the first time America truly heard herself. In the 1920s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave their studios...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (310 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning America are captured on record for the first time, inventing...