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1930
Living in a Dust Bowl
b/ Joe Bonamassa
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Dust Bowl b/ Joe Bonamassa (2011)
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
1851 — THE GREAT ESCAPE
• BLUE WAS ANGRY / CROSS THAT RIVER
• FREDERICK DOUGLASS (FIRST TO BE FREE)
• HARRIET TUBMAN (Going Underground)
• HARRIET TUBMAN (Biography)
1860 — THE MOVEMENT OF ART
1907 — THE APPALACHIANS ARE ALIVE
— Songcatcher (2000)
• SONGCATCHER (TRAILER) 2000
“When The Mountains Cry“
“Appalachian Hills” b/ Driftwood Fire
A film about a woman whose drive to pursue the history of music, leads her on an unexpected path to self-discovery. Musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) has been denied a promotion in the male-dominated music department of her university. Frustrated and determined to get her academic recognition, she heads to Appalachia with a recording device and a pen, and discovers much more than Mountain Music.
1940 — ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST
Alan Lomax
Academic Field Worker
An American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of 20th Century folk music. He was also a musician, folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the United States and in England, and played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries. He was credited with driving the American and British Folk Revivals of the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s.
He first collected material and made recordings with his father, John A. Lomax,also a Folklorist and Collector.
After working with his father, Lomax went out alone, and partnered with a number of collaborators, recording thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, which he directed/curated at the Library of Congress. (aluminum and acetate discs)
Among the artists Lomax is credited with discovering and bringing to a wider audience include blues guitarist Robert Johnson, protest singer Woody Guthrie, folk artist Pete Seeger, country musician Burl Ives, and country blues singer Lead Belly, among many others. “Alan scraped by the whole time, and left with no money,” said Don Fleming, director of Lomax’s Association for Culture Equity. “He did it out of the passion he had for it, and found ways to fund projects that were closest to his heart.”
— Crossroads (1986)
1930 — MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES
Mississippi River
Robert Johnson — DEVIL MUSIC
1942 —
— Gordon Parks (1942)
After 1942, when Congress cut off the Library of Congress’s funding for folk song collecting, Lomax continued to collect independently in Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain, as well as the United States, using the latest recording technology, assembling an enormous collection of American and international culture.
1930 — HARD TIMES (IN AMERICA)
— American Gothic Grant Wood (1930)
Grant Wood‘s American Gothic (1930) has become a widely known (and often parodied) icon of social realism.
• WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA)
• WPA (ART&PHOTOGRAPHY)
2020 — ART MOVEMENT
• WPA (FEDERAL MUSIC PROJECT)
The Federal Music Project (FMP), part of the United States New Deal program Federal Project Number One, employed musicians, conductors and composers during the Great Depression.
Composers Forum Laboratory
Creation of National Orchestras
Thousands Of Concerts
Music Festivals
Music Classes
The FMP also sponsored the academic research of American Traditional music and Folk songs, a practice now called ethnomusicology.
Musicology b/ Prince (2003)
In the latter domain the Federal Music Project did notable studies on Cowboy (Western); Creole (New Orleans); and what was then termed Negro music (Jazz & Blues).
Hard Times
b/ Curtis Mayfield
There’s No Place Like America Today (1975)
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World’s Highest Standard of Living (1937)
Arthur Rothstein, A Farmer and His Two Sons During a Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936, photograph considered as an icon of the Dust Bowl.
1936 — DESPERATE PICTURES
Farm Administrative Act
Dorothea Lange
May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965
An American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.
— Dorothea Lange (1936)
Dorothea Lange‘s Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, pictured here, Florence Owens Thompson, 32, a mother of seven, in Nipomo, California.
1939 — The FMP transitioned to the Works Progress Administration‘s Music Program, which along with many other WPA projects, was phased out in the midst of World War II.
Gordon Roger Parks Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director, best known for the 1972 film Super Fly. Parks was born to Sally Alvis and photographer / film director Gordon Parks in Minneapolis (1934). The younger Parks followed in his father’s footsteps after his father had success with the blaxploitation hit Shaft (1971).
Super Fly (1972)
Three the Hard Way (1974)
Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
Parks was killed with three others when their small airplane crashed after takeoff near Nairobi, Kenya, where they had gone to make a film. He was 44 years old.
• INSIDE (CONTENTS)
• PICTURES IN TIME (PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY)
• TIME MAGAZINE (100 PHOTOGRAPHS)
— dave.
• YouTube #1 / ORIGINAL NOISE
• YouTube #2 / ORIGINAL NOISE
Bring Your Imagination,
And Enjoy The Ride.
• PICTURES IN TIME (PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY)
— dave.
