tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post3673221450353501695..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Remembering & Honoring John Wesley Work IIIAzizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-30532707396581813632012-04-14T22:29:32.510-04:002012-04-14T22:29:32.510-04:00Anonymous, Thank you for your comment.
I've ...Anonymous, Thank you for your comment. <br /><br />I've included your entire comment and my brief response in the body of this post.azizi powellhttp://www.cocojams.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-7715471629205215622012-04-13T22:35:27.250-04:002012-04-13T22:35:27.250-04:00Dear Ms. Powell,
It is not true that Alan Lomax ...Dear Ms. Powell, <br /><br />It is not true that Alan Lomax didn't credit John Work. John Work's name appears on all the recordings that he made for the Library of Congress with Lomax and always has. Furthermore Alan Lomax mentioned John Work's folk songs book in the bibliography of his books. Not only that John Work was the first name to be credited on the acknowledgments of Lomax's book, "The Land Where the Blues Began" which covers 75 years -- contrary to what Dave Marsh and Robert Gordon (who are rock music critics not folklorists, mistakenly assert. Work was based in Nashville, not Mississippi. Son House led both both Lomax and Work to Muddy Waters. <br /><br />Lomax worked with hundreds of people besides John Work and all of them are given proper credit on his recordings. Lomax obtained funding for the Coahoma Mississippi project from the Pan American Union's Music Division, which was headed by Charles Seeger (Pete Seeger's father). In 1942 congress voted to cut off all funding for the Library of Congress and stipulated that it would not restore funding if the LIbrary sponsored folk music collecting, which Southern legislators feared was a form of Civil Rights organizing. <br />John Work was a noted composer of classical music and is mentioned in all reference works devoted to classical music. He is not a neglected figure at all. His book on folk music has never gone out of print. It is available as a Dover paperback, or was last time I checked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com