Been Here and Gone

Frederic Ramsey, Jr.

ISBN 10: 0813506204 / ISBN 13: 9780813506203

Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1969

About this Item

Book in gray boards has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Clipped jacket in new mylar cover has minor wear to bottom edge, .75 inch tear on spine. "Text and photographs record the life and musical activity in the Deep South of black Americans whose remembrances help to reveal the beginnings and development of Afro-American music in the United States." Black and white photos. First published 1960.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Been Here and Gone
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813506204
• ISBN 13: 9780813506203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This volume documents Frederic Ramsey Jr.'s journeys through the 1950s South, where he traveled in search of what might still remain of an original, authentic African American musical tradition. In these photographs, songs, interviews, and narratives, Ramsey portrays farmers, railroad workers, housewives, children, church congregations, and country brass bands from Saratoga, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana. Ramsey's images of a past way of life capture the deceptively poor landscapes and lives that gave birth to and sustained some of our warmest and most deeply felt music.

About the Author

Frederic Ramsey Jr., a writer, historian, jazz expert, and musicologist who specialized in African American culture, was one of the first major jazz scholars. He traveled throughout the South recording traditional music and photographing the lives and landscapes of the people he met.