Alan Lomax Archive | Alan Lomax: Jack the Rabbit (track-lining song) (1969) @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Posted in honor of Alan Lomax's 107th birthday, January 31, 2022. In April 1969, he gave a lecture and performance in Texas City, Texas, which included this spirited "Jack the Rabbit," a song based on track-lining chants by A.B. Hicks and others which he had recorded with Zora Neale Hurston in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, in 1935.
The whole Texas City presentation is here: archive.culturalequity.org/node/1071
Posted in honor of Alan Lomax's 107th birthday, January 31, 2022. In April 1969, he gave a lecture and performance in Texas City, Texas, which included this spirited "Jack the Rabbit," a song based on track-lining chants by A.B. Hicks and others which he had recorded with Zora Neale Hurston in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, in 1935.
The whole Texas City presentation is here: archive.culturalequity.org/node/1071
