Music from the South, Vol. 6: Elder Songsters, 1
(Folkways Records, 1956), 36 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- American Music
- Description
Of Elder Songsters 1 & 2, Frederic Ramsey, Jr. writes, "The mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers [have] kept the music alive and burning in the home. There are ways of singing hymns and other songs that are peculiar to the family unit, and to [the] everyday environment... It is this everyday environment...that we have sought to capture in these two volumes."
- Content Type
- Music recording
- Duration
- 36 mins
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Country/Rural Blues, Traditional Gospel
- Label
- Folkways Records
- Release Date
- 1956
- Subject
- American Music, World Music, Music & Performing Arts, American Studies, Blues, United States and Canada, Blues, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá, United States
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Blues, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá