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Going Up the Country - Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s (Hardcover)
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Going Up the Country - Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s (Hardcover)
Series: American Made Music Series
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At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David
Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to
Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do
fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made
recordings and interviews and took extensive field notes and
photographs of blues musicians and their families. Going Up the
Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s presents their
experiences in vivid detail through the field notes, the
photographs, and the retrospective views of these two passionate
researchers. The book includes historical material as well as
contemporary reflections by Bokelman and Evans on the times and the
people they met during their southern journeys. Their notes and
photographs take the reader into the midst of memorable encounters
with many obscure but no less important musicians, as well as blues
legends, including Robert Pete Williams, Mississippi Fred McDowell,
Al Wilson (cofounder of Canned Heat), Babe Stovall, Reverend Ruben
Lacy, and Jack Owens. This volume is not only an adventure story,
but also a scholarly discussion of fieldwork in folklore and
ethnomusicology. Including retrospective context and commentary,
the field note chapters describe searches for musicians, recording
situations, social and family dynamics of musicians, and race
relations and the racial environment, as well as the practical,
ethical, and logistical problems of doing fieldwork. The book
features over one hundred documentary photographs that depict the
field recording sessions and the activities, lives, and living
conditions of the artists and their families. These photographs
serve as a visual counterpart equivalent to the field notes. The
remaining chapters explain the authors' methodology, planning, and
motivations, as well as their personal backgrounds prior to going
into the field, their careers afterwards, and their thoughts about
fieldwork and folklore research in general. In this enlightening
book, Bokelman and Evans provide an exciting and honest portrayal
of blues field research in the 1960s.
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