{"product_id":"jail-house-bound-john-lomaxs-first-southern-prison-recordings-1933-9781933202334","title":"Jail House Bound: John Lomax's First Southern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1933, John Lomax and his young son Alan traveled by car to a number of prisons scattered throughout Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In the nation’s most restricted spaces, they recorded African-American convicts, who Lomax thought would be some of the last singers of traditional folk material due to the isolation of the institutions that held them.  As a result of this fieldwork, we now have access to a multitude of powerful songs, both well and little known, which provide some understanding of this folk group during the era of Jim Crow in America’s South.","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043282911575,"sku":"9781933202334","price":12.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jail-house-bound-john-lomaxs-first-southern-prison-recordings-1933-9781933202334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}