Bascom lamar lunsford biography of michael jackson

Repository Details. Search Collection. From year. To year. Your name required required. Your email address required required. Anticipated arrival date. Lunsford has been quoted as saying he spent "nights in more homes from Harpers Ferry to Iron Mountain than anybody but God". Lunsford gave lectures and performances while dressed in a starched white shirt and black bow tie.

In Frank C. Browna song collector, recorded 32 items on wax cylinders from Bascom. Smith's anthology also includes Lunsford's performance of the gospel song " Dry Bones ", recorded in Lunsford played in a style from Western North Carolina, which had a rhythmic up-stroke brushing the strings. It sounds similar to clawhammer banjo playing, which emphasises the downstroke.

He also played a "mandoline", an instrument with mandolin body and a five-string banjo neck. He occasionally played fiddle for dance tunes such as "Rye Straw". He censored the canon, avoiding obscene songs or omitting verses. His repertoire included Child Balladsnegro spirituals and parlor songs. The Chamber asked Lunsford to invite local musicians and dancers.

After a few years the rhododendron element disappeared but the festival continues to this day. He was the organiser and performed there every year until he suffered a stroke in As a child he learned to play a cigar box fiddle which was replaced by a store bought one and later took up the banjo, which became his primary instrument, as a teenager. At that point he started playing at weddings and square dances.

He later came to play a mandoline which is a mandolin body with a five-string banjo neck. Bascom worked in a number of professions including bee and honey promoter, supervisor of a school for the deaf, lawyer, reading clerk of the North Carolina House of Representatives, professor of English and History, editor and publisher of a newspaper but it was his work as a fruit tree salesman that allowed him to develop a vast repertoire of traditional tunes and songs.

This job required him to travel throughout the North Carolina mountains where he would learn music from people he met along the way. He eventually recorded his collection for Columbia University and the Library of Congress. In the Asheville Chamber of Commerce asked Bascom to invite musicians and dancers to the Rhododendron Festival they were organizing.

The rhododendrons disappeared after a few years but the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival continues to this day where he performed every year until when he fell ill. Mr Lunsford recorded for the Brunswick record label. He is the author of four books and scores of articles and reviews on traditional and vernacular culture, the politics of culture, and cultural policy in the American South, the Appalachian region, and Latin America.

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