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Crossroads : Southern routes : music of the American South.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 33966
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- Format:
- Datafile
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gospel music--Interactive multimedia.
- Gospel music.
- Popular music--Southern States--Interactive multimedia.
- Popular music.
- Folk music--Southern States--Interactive multimedia.
- Folk music.
- Interactive multimedia.
- Southern States.
- Ethnic music recordings--Southern States.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Southern States.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 computer optical disc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Southern routes
- Music of the American South
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways, [1996]
- Language Note:
- Sung principally in English; track 4 sung in Cajun French, track 7 sung in Miccosukee (Mikasuki) (1st song), and Creek (2nd song), track 8 sung in English with some lines in the language of the "Mardi Gras Indians" (Cf. notes, p. 9), and track 11 sung in Spanish.
- System Details:
- Enhanced for playback on Macintosh or Windows computer. System requirements: 68040 processor or above, 256 color monitor, 5 Mb RAM, 2X speed CD-ROM drive, system 7.1 or above; or, 486/66 DX2 with 8 Mb RAM, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 (strongly recommended), 5 Mb hard-disk space, 2X speed CD-ROM drive, video card (256 colors), 16-bit Windows sound card, speakers or headphones.
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Rising sun (Brownie McGhee with Sonny Terry)
- Statesboro blues (The Allman Brothers Band)
- Blue Monk (Dirty Dozen Brass Band)
- 15 ans (Les Quatre Vieux Garçons featuring Dewey Balfa)
- Travelin' shoes (Vera Hall Ward)
- Woke up this mornin' with my mind on freedom (The SNCC Freedom Singers)
- The mice and the bad angel ; Turtle's song to the wolf (Betty Mae Jumper)
- Brother John ; Iko iko (Neville Brothers)
- White House blues (Bill Monroe)
- Blue suede shoes (Carl Perkins)
- Anque me odies (Lydia Mendoza)
- Apartment #9 (Tammy Wynette)
- Mouths around the table (Denise LaSalle)
- Southbound (Doc Watson with Merle Watson)
- TAn old time Christian (The Kingsmen)
- There is none like Him (Mississippi Mass Choir).
- Participant:
- Various artists.
- Notes:
- The sound recording portion of the disc includes examples of an extremely wide variety of musical styles found in the southern states, among them blues, Cajun, freedom songs, bluegrass, folk and gospel. The enhancements include performers or composers speaking about the pieces or their experiences in the south at the time of performing/writing, and, on screen, a time line with notes on the various periods, glossary, map, biographies of the performers, photographs, lyrics, and selected discography.
- Compilation of recordings issued 1954-1995 on Folkways and other labels.
- Compact disc (enhanced).
- Program notes by Anthony Seeger and Kip Lornell ([32] p.) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 35923711
- Publisher Number:
- SF CD 40080 Smithsonian Folkways
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