Our Singing Country solo voices

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Revised and brought up to date by Fred Reinfeld and Sidney Bernstein

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Our Singing Country solo voicesIn the 1930s and 40s, a father and son team of folklorists hit the highways, byways and rural routes of the United States, traveling in a battered pickup truck laden with primitive recording equipment. John A. Lomax and his son, Alan, covered thousands of miles, stopping off at tarpaper shacks, juke joints, prison yards, and other out of the way places to listen to native singers and to record them for the Library of Congress archives. The Lomaxes