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| ...90837365107561_4459840313350942793_n.jpg | Kein ALT-Attribut angegeben | Here is an excerpt of a pastorella for the Epiphany holiday, performed by Vincenzo Morrone (zampogna), Francesco Mignoli (zampogna), and Francesco Navatta (ciaramella), and recorded on the eve of Epiphany (January 5th), 1955, by Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella in Caggiano, Campania, Italy. The zampogna is a double-chanter bagpipe made from sheepskin. The ciaramella (also known as a pipita or piffero) is a double-reed woodwind similar to the oboe. In the Christmas season musicians like these (called zampognari) would traditionally travel from their mountain communities to perform in people's homes, as well as in the streets of larger towns and cities.
Lomax and Carpitella recorded a number of performances by Morrone, Mignoli, and Navatta during their visit to Caggiano. These recordings exposed a much wider audience to the region's distinct Christmastide music—especially the group's Novena Di Natale, which Lomax included in the Southern Italian volume in his ambitious "World Library of Folk and Primitive Music" series for Columbia Records. |
| ...09097910003067_8821133174123519402_n.jpg | Kein ALT-Attribut angegeben | Today we are sharing a new collection of wintry music from the archive. 20 songs of the season from the Caribbean, Italy, Spain, Scotland, the American South, and Harlem.
‘Songs of Christmas, Midwinter, and New Year’ is available for purchase on our Bandcamp page, to stream on the streaming service of your choice, and as a mix via our podcast ‘Been All Around This World’.
Our friends at @aquariumdrunkard have shared the release on their site. Go check it out!
Pictured here are a few of the artists featured on the compilation:
1. Vera Hall, Livingston, Alabama, October 1959.
2. Merritt Boddie (of the Marigolds band) with flute, Gingerland, Nevis, July 1962.
3. Georgia Sea Island Singers, including Emma Lee Ramsey (far left), Bessie Jones (in black hat), John Davis (in gray cap) and Mable Hillery (far right), Williamsburg, Virginia, May 1960.
4. Left to right: Rufus Quesinberry, Norman Edmonds, Paul Edmonds, Hillsville, Virginia, August 1959. |
| ...86088682573151_6980059943476605483_n.jpg | Kein ALT-Attribut angegeben | The third installment in our podcast series on the Lomaxes' 1939 Texas recordings is up now. (Link in bio.) It features some of the crackerjack instrumentalists in the collection, like the harmonica player A.B. ("Ace") Johnson pictured here.
Johnson, a twenty-five-year-old native of Dallas, was incarcerated at the Clemens State Farm when John and Ruby Lomax came making recordings. He was an experienced performer in front of a microphone, as he frequently made the trip from Clemens in rural Brazoria County down to the Walls Unit penitentiary in Huntsville to blow the harp on WBAP's massively popular "Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls" radio program. As one of the announcers put it, "the little instrument does everything but talk." Presumably no irony was intended; Black performers, however, were not permitted to speak on air.
Photo from the Texas Prison Museum via the Marshall Project. |
| ...099281723753649_586578472423682339_n.jpg | Kein ALT-Attribut angegeben | R.L. Burnside’s sons Duwayne, Dexter, and Michael Joe Burnside demonstrate their hambone abilities at the Burnside home in Independence, Mississippi, August 1978. Shot by John Bishop, Worth Long, and Alan Lomax. #rlburnside #mississippihillcountryblues |
| ...44075861537241_1067646500531811530_n.jpg | Kein ALT-Attribut angegeben | The next installment in our Tradition Talks series is with Mississippi-based educator, artist, and influencer Landon Bryant this upcoming Tuesday, November 14 at 7pm.
Landon Bryant uses his @landontalks series to shed light on the subtleties of language, manners, and food in the American South – so often baffling to people from other regions – while creating a forum in the comments section for his more than 350,000 followers to talk about their own traditions. Landon will join ACE Executive Director Sarah Bryan to chat about how his work combines humor and contemporary media to create an inclusive platform for cultural documentation.
Pre-register for the talk via the link in our bio. |
| ...56772486791574_4928070981132075251_n.jpg | Kein ALT-Attribut angegeben | The Lomax Collection reflects a variety of human experience—from the sacred to the profane, from the rural to the urban, and from the public square to the domestic scene. John A. and Alan Lomax recorded lullabies all over the world, creating a record of the universality of these particularly intimate moments between parents and children. We’ve put together a multi-faceted exploration of these recordings in an online exhibit (“Go to Sleepy Little Baby”), an episode of the Been All Around This World podcast, and a compilation (“Hush the Waves are Rolling In”) which pairs some of our favorite lullabies from the archive with new interpretations by contemporary artists.
Links in bio to all the above, including to the Lomax Archive Bandcamp where you can stream/purchase the compilation.
In the coming weeks @noquarterrex will release a 7” EP of two of the archival recordings alongside interpretations by @myriamgendronmusique and @joanshelley, and we'll be hosting a presentation of these lullabies in collaboration with some of the contributing artists at the @bklynfolkfest, November 10-12, 2023.
This project was made possible with funding from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Thanks to our funders and our colleagues at the American Folklife Center. |
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