Showcasing American music and music making during the Great
Depression, "Hard Luck Blues" presents more than two hundred
photographs created by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration
photography program. With an appreciation for the amateur and the
local, FSA photographers depicted a range of musicians sharing the
regular music of everyday life, from informal songs in migrant work
camps, farmers' homes, barn dances, and on street corners to
organized performances at church revivals, dance halls, and
community festivals. Captured across the nation from the northeast
to the southwest, the images document the last generation of
musicians who learned to play without the influence of recorded
sound, as well as some of the pioneers of Chicago's R & B scene
and the first years of amplified instruments. The best visual
representation of American roots music performance during the
Depression era, "Hard Luck Blues" features photographs by Jack
Delano, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn,
Marion Post Wolcott, and others. Photographer and image researcher
Rich Remsberg breathes life into the images by providing contextual
details about the persons and events captured, in some cases
drawing on interviews with the photographers' subjects. Also
included are a foreword by author Nicholas Dawidoff and an
afterword by music historian Henry Sapoznik. "Published in
association with the Library of Congress."
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