Joined by his seventeen-year-old son Alan, Lomax visited some of the most notorious Southern penitentiaries-among them Sugar Land in Texas Angola in Louisiana Parchman Farm in Mississippi-where he knew anachronistic strains of African American folk-song would be preserved away from the influence of the radio, the phonograph, and cross-pollination with whites. Lomax made the first of his field-recording trips through the American South. In 1933, with the support of Macmillan Publishers and the Music Division of the Library of Congress, John A. JAIL HOUSE BOUND: JOHN LOMAX'S FIRST SOUTHERN PRISON RECORDINGS, 1933
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