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| ARTERIAL AMERICA: Dispatch from Angola |
| By .oxfordamerican.org - John Cline |
| Published: 03/27/2013 |
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In mid-February, John F. Cline set off on foot from New Orleans bound for Chicago for a project he's dubbed "Arterial America." He will be following the historic routes of the Mississippi Valley that facilitated last century's "Great Migration"—the African-American diaspora that funneled musical forms and cultures that were once specific to the South to the industrial cities of the North and beyond. Traveling by foot, towboat, and train, Cline will provide photos, recordings, and observations from his journey, including a series of exclusive dispatches for the Oxford American. Visit ArterialAmerica.com for more information and real-time updates. —the OA Almost from the moment this trip became an actual plan—and not merely a daydream—I knew that I wanted to go to Angola. Although I harbor some ambivalence about the ethics of John and Alan Lomax's field recording practices, their legacy is important enough both to me personally, and to the history of American music generally, that a trip to the very place where Lead Belly was first recorded seemed an unavoidable stop on a journey that was largely based on the routes of migration that brought blues and jazz out of the South. And not only Lead Belly, but Robert Pete Williams—an inimitable blues guitarist and former Angola inmate first recorded in the late '50s by Dr. Harry Oster, a professor at the University of Iowa whose classes I'd just missed due to his retirement. Read More. |
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