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represent a landmark in American ethnomusicology, capturing a vast repertoire of folk, blues, and prison songs that might otherwise have been lost to time Historical Significance and Origin Recorded primarily between 1933 and 1942

The story of these recordings begins in 1933 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. John Lomax, traveling with a 315-pound portable disc recorder, was searching for "pure" African American folk music—songs that had been insulated from the commercial "pollution" of the radio. Lomax was there to record traditional African American

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. Lomax was there to record traditional African American folk songs and work songs for the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Song. Pardon by Song capturing a vast repertoire of folk