A Special Prayer on The Man That’s A-Catching The Record
A Special Prayer on The Man That’s A-Catching The Record
This chapter argues that old-time records have achieved a new level of conceptual autonomy, an equal partner in Southern music and song. The record has transfigured the basic components of the musical event: its setting, its participants, even the musical tradition itself. The musical tradition has also been redefined as a record, understood not just as a physical object and its three-minute time-span but as an instantaneous meeting of imaginative minds, a momentary union of cultural beings transcending the mundane boundaries of product and process to achieve the idea of art: a prayer, a hymn, a ceremony, a transcendent reality absolutely in tune with itself.
Keywords: old-time records, Southern music, Southern song, musical tradition
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