PPW 12: Lomax’s and Prison Poetry

Prison Poetry Workshop

English - April 14, 2020 21:00 - 9 minutes - 6.45 MB
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Previous Episode: PPW 03: Workshop with Kyes Stevens

Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century and invested his work on recording music that was disappearing from the American cultural landscape.