Been All Around This World
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Been All Around This World
"Been All Around This World" explores the breadth and depth of folklorist Alan Lomax's seven decades of field recordings. From the earliest trips he made through the American South with his father, John A. Lomax, beginning in 1933, to his last documentary work in the early 1990s, the program will pr...
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24 - Shouts on the Threshing Floor: Work Songs
A survey of work songs from around the world, recorded by Alan and John A. Lomax. We narrow the definition of work song to mean specifically those sun...
23 - MIX: Alan Lomax in Carriacou, 1962
Been All Around This World has a new co-host! ACE Program Coordinator and Been All Around This World producer Michael Cormier-O'Leary joins Curator Na...
22 - When I Get Home: Sacred songs from the 1939 Texas recordings
The last episode of our survey of John A. and Ruby T. Lomax's 1939 Texas recordings features highlights of sacred performances in the collection.
21 - Songs of Christmas, Midwinter, and New Year
An admittedly cursory holiday mix presenting performances from our new digital release, "Songs of Christmas, New Year, and Midwinter from the Lomax Co...
20 - Inspiration: Instrumentalists from the 1939 Texas recordings
Fiddlers, harp blowers, and guitarists recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax during their 1939 Texas field-trip.
1) Frank Goodwyn & Manu...
19 - Go to Sleepy Little Baby: Lullabies from the Alan Lomax Collection
The Lomax Collection reflects a variety of human experience—from the sacred to the profane, from the rural to the urban, and from the public square to...
16 - Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year
An expansion of our Christmas and New Year episode of a few years back with extra tracks and more all around cheer. Links are to tracks' records in th...
15 - "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations"
Our eschatological episode of the program. Songs on final things: the end of the world, the end of time, judgement day, "when the stars begin to fall,...
14 - "When I'm Gone, Gone": South Carolina, 1934–1940
(Scroll down for playlist and links to resources mentioned.)
This episode provides an introduction to the singers and sites visited by Jo...
13 - Songs and stories for Halloween
[Bed music:]
Sid Hemphill and band: The Death March (Quitman Co., Mississippi, August 1942).
Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Hoskins: Ah, Lovely Ap...
12 - The Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh, 70 years later
August 30, 2021, is the 70-year anniversary of the 1951 Edinburgh People’s Festival Ceilidh, the seminal event that heralded and generated the Scottis...
11 - "Making It In Hell": Parchman Farm, 1933–1969
Brutality and inhumanity were central to the Southern state prison farms, in their theory and their practice, and of them all, the Mississippi State P...
10 - Singing from the Sacred Harp, 1928-1983
Sacred Harp -- the four-part shape-note singing tradition long confined to the American South, but recently enjoying remarkable international populari...
09 - The Mississippi Hill Country, 1942-1978
1. Sid Hemphill and band: The Carrier Line (or the Carrier song). Sledge, Mississippi, August 1942.
2. Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith: Going Awa...
08 - The Southern Journey at 60
The Fall 2019 season of the program will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the so-called "Southern Journey" field-recording trip and explore various...
07 - Sing Christmas
1. Villagers of Cáceres, La Mancha: Christmas processional, Christmas Eve 1952
2. Merritt Boddie and Marigolds band: Christmas Machete, Gingerla...
06 - Oh Freedom
Topical, protest, and resistance songs from Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Trinidad by way of New York City, Oklahoma by way of California, and the Mis...
05 - Singing of the Sea
Songs from and/or of the sea (and one Great Lake), from Italy, Scotland, Grenada, the Georgia Sea Islands, and Lake Michigan.
1. Captain A.H. Ra...
04 - Let Us Not Praise Famous Men
The Lomaxes are well-known for the recordings they made of artists who went on to become famous and influential figures in traditional and popular mus...
03 - Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea
Dance tunes from Arkansas, Abruzzo, the island of Dominica, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a front porch in the North Carolina Piedmont, and an excerpt f...
02 - Baby, It Must Be Love
A selection of songs concerning love in its vagaries, timed for Valentine's Day. Performances from Atlanta, Georgia; Cajun Louisiana; Scotland; Southw...
01 - I've Been All Around This World
In the inaugural episode of "Been All Around This World" we survey Alan Lomax's seven-decade field-recording career, with music from Haiti, Ireland, M...