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Documenting the Blues

BBC Radio 3
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In the seventh of eight programmes, Paul Oliver discusses field recordings of the black American folk songs made for the archives of the Library of Congress and now issued on Johnny Parth 's Document label.
The recordings were made mainly by John A Lomax and his son Alan, but there were significant contributions by other collectors, some of them African-Americans.
Repeated from Saturday 6pm

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Paul Oliver
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Johnny Parth
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John A Lomax
Source: Radio Times

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