Bring Judgment Day

Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvSheila Curran Bernard,State University of New York) Bernard, Sheila Curran (University at Albany

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Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But, as this deeply researched book shows, these stories were shaped by the white folklorists who 'discovered' Lead Belly and, along with reporters, recording executives, and radio and film producers, introduced him to audiences beyond the South. Through a revelatory examination of arrest, trial, and prison records; sharecropping reports; oral histories; newspaper articles; and more, author Sheila Curran Bernard replaces myth with fact, offering a stunning indictment of systemic racism in the Jim Crow era of the United States and the power of narrative to erase and distort the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-07-11
Mått148 x 222 x 26 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor253
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009098120

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Musikböcker inom Kultur
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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Folkmusik inom Kultur
Musikhistoria inom Kultur
Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

'Sheila Curran Bernard rescues the legendary 'Lead Belly' from a swirl of fabrication and racist presumption, and simultaneously illuminates the systemized oppression that cruelly stalked Black artists and ensured, for a century after the ostensible end of slavery, that bitter chords of racial injustice would remain as central to the American chorus as any melodies of freedom.' Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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