Post by Stephen Byers on Jul 2, 2014 9:56:51 GMT
This is an amazing archive with free listening and downloading of many recordings.
www.culturalequity.org/
What might not be known is that many recordings in the Archive are from Alan Lomax's projects with the BBC.
research.culturalequity.org/home-radio.jsp
"During the nineteen-fifties Lomax worked extensively for the BBC, familiarizing British audiences with the folk music of America, Ireland, Britain, Spain, Italy and other parts of the world. He was heard on the BBC once more in 1966 when he and Guy Carawan did two shows — The Folk Song Army and Songs of Protest — for Bridson’s series America Since the Bomb.
The Alan Lomax Archive Collection at the Library of Congress and the ACE archive contain scripts, playlists, and correspondence connected with many of these radio shows (as well as of television shows produced for Grenada TV that aired in 1956). A number of them were also recorded on audio tape and are being made available for streaming in the catalog of this website."
Particularly Alan Lomax was involved with the production of Radio Ballads long before Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger's more well-known programmes of this genre.
"In 1944, Bridson conceived of a series of ballad operas with folk music, “much in the eighteenth-century tradition of John Gay and Henry Carey,” as a way to promote cultural and interracial friendship between the peoples of Britain and the United States. They were broadcast by the BBC Home Service (union disputes prevented their being heard stateside). The first of these, The Man Who Went to War, was written by Langston Hughes and starred Canada Lee, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters. Alan Lomax helped select the music. Bridson described this as one of the most popular programs he ever had on the air, “being heard by millions on its first broadcast alone” (Bridson, 1971, p. 111). Sadly, the glass masters for the program were accidentally broken before they could be preserved on tape. Lomax also chose the music for and performed in two subsequent folk song ballad opera broadcasts scripted by his wife, Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold: The Martins and the Coys and The Chisholm Trail."
The Chisholm Trail can be heard here (there is a minor snafu with the page in that the files are all there but the details are incorrect):
The Chisholm Trail, 1944. A folk ballad opera with cowboy songs, broadcast over the BBC home service.
research.culturalequity.org/get-radio-detailed-show.do?showId=9
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www.culturalequity.org/
What might not be known is that many recordings in the Archive are from Alan Lomax's projects with the BBC.
research.culturalequity.org/home-radio.jsp
"During the nineteen-fifties Lomax worked extensively for the BBC, familiarizing British audiences with the folk music of America, Ireland, Britain, Spain, Italy and other parts of the world. He was heard on the BBC once more in 1966 when he and Guy Carawan did two shows — The Folk Song Army and Songs of Protest — for Bridson’s series America Since the Bomb.
The Alan Lomax Archive Collection at the Library of Congress and the ACE archive contain scripts, playlists, and correspondence connected with many of these radio shows (as well as of television shows produced for Grenada TV that aired in 1956). A number of them were also recorded on audio tape and are being made available for streaming in the catalog of this website."
Particularly Alan Lomax was involved with the production of Radio Ballads long before Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger's more well-known programmes of this genre.
"In 1944, Bridson conceived of a series of ballad operas with folk music, “much in the eighteenth-century tradition of John Gay and Henry Carey,” as a way to promote cultural and interracial friendship between the peoples of Britain and the United States. They were broadcast by the BBC Home Service (union disputes prevented their being heard stateside). The first of these, The Man Who Went to War, was written by Langston Hughes and starred Canada Lee, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters. Alan Lomax helped select the music. Bridson described this as one of the most popular programs he ever had on the air, “being heard by millions on its first broadcast alone” (Bridson, 1971, p. 111). Sadly, the glass masters for the program were accidentally broken before they could be preserved on tape. Lomax also chose the music for and performed in two subsequent folk song ballad opera broadcasts scripted by his wife, Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold: The Martins and the Coys and The Chisholm Trail."
The Chisholm Trail can be heard here (there is a minor snafu with the page in that the files are all there but the details are incorrect):
The Chisholm Trail, 1944. A folk ballad opera with cowboy songs, broadcast over the BBC home service.
research.culturalequity.org/get-radio-detailed-show.do?showId=9
SB