Record Album, "Negro Prison Songs," 1958
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Folklorist Alan Lomax, believing all people and cultures deserved equal respect, spent his career documenting remote musical traditions. This record's powerful songs, collected 1947-8 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, attest to the parallels between the Deep South's oppressive prison system--requiring arduous physical labor under constant threat of physical punishment--and the experiences of enslaved work groups on 19th-century plantations.
Folklorist Alan Lomax, believing all people and cultures deserved equal respect, spent his career documenting remote musical traditions. This record's powerful songs, collected 1947-8 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, attest to the parallels between the Deep South's oppressive prison system--requiring arduous physical labor under constant threat of physical punishment--and the experiences of enslaved work groups on 19th-century plantations.
Artifact
Phonograph record
Date Made
1958
Subject Date
1947
Creators
Place of Creation
Keywords
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2001.142.53
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Vinyl
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Dimensions
Height: 12.25 in
Width: 12.25 in
Inscriptions
cover, front: Negro Prison Songs Mississippi State Penitentiary Work Songs and Blues Recorded, Edited and Annotated By Alan Lomax Stereo cover, back: TLP 1020 Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary Tradition Records