On this episode of The African American Folklorist, I share the story of the born free, African American Traditional Music Practitioner Elijah Cox, who was a fiddler, Buffalo soldier, and recorded in 1935 at the age of 93 for the Library of Congress…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
During a 1939 folklorist excursion to the Clemens State Prison Farm, John Lomax and his wife Ruby recorded several musicians as they stayed on the Varner-Hogg Plantation in West Columbia and drove about 15 miles to Clemens.
There they recorded Blues…
BLACK FOLK MUSIC: GOD IS GOOD, VOL. 1 - SHELTON KOTTON POWE JR
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation releases it's first album of our Field Recording series. Check out Shelton Kotton Powe Jr. He's a current Black Traditional Music Practitioner.
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Lamont Jack Pearley
John and Ruby Lomax recorded Roosevelt 'Giant' Hudson at the Cummins State Farm in Gould, Arkansas, Camp #1
Jack Dappa Blues Public Media and Heritage Preservation Foundation reintroduces African American Traditional Music and the Black Experience to the People of the…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
Jack Dappa Blues has been producing podcasts re-introducing the WPA's Slave Narrative to our audience. We are currently working on more...however, here's a nice littles something to wet your whistle.
Jack Dappa Blues Public Media is where you come to be…