Field Recording Special - The Beautiful Music All Around Us:
On today’s program we spotlight some great field recordings captured between the 1930’s through the 1960’s. In the first hour we talk with Stephen Wade about his new book 'The Beautiful Music All Around Us' which presents the fascinatingback stories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942. Through prodigious research, Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them and reconstructs their lives and how the music was tied to the larger community. Wade is also known for his long-running stage performances of 'Banjo Dancing' and 'On the Way Home.' He also produced and annotated the Rounder CD collections 'A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings' and 'Black Appalachia'. In the second hour we spotlight field recordings made by Mack McCormick and others around Houston plus recording made Texas prisons by Bruce Jackson in the 1960’s and Pete and Toshi Seeger, John Lomax Jr., Chester Bower and Fred Hellerman in 1951.
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