Field recordings made in Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin between 1937-1946. Armed with bulky microphones blank disks spare needles and cumbersome disk-cutting machines several folklorists had the foresight to document and preserve a significant but overlooked part of the nation's musical heritage made by immigrant Native American rural and working-class performers. Almost all of these dance tunes ballads lyric songs hymns laments versified taunts political anthems street cries and recitations are being issued for the very first time. This 5-CD set is filled with African-American Austrian Belgian Cornish Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French Canadian German Ho-Chunk Icelandic Lithuanian Irish Italian Norwegian Ojibwe Oneida Polish Scots Gaelic Serbian Swedish Swiss and Welsh performers. Bonus DVD includes the new documentary film The Most Fertile Source: Alan Lomax Goes North with never-before-seen footage shot in Michigan in 1938. The accompanying book includes extensive liner notes lyric transcriptions and translations by James P. Leary co-founder of the Center for the Study?of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
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