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Time is Away - The Singing Stream: Singers, Songs and Song Collectors
London, 17.06.19
Time is Away explores how recording technology enabled the capture of folk music in the United States and Europe across the 20th century. Like the practice of collecting, the programme is shaped by the tensions between college-educated song collectors, folklorists, singers and audiences seeking out the music of marginalised, dispossessed and disenfranchised people. At the programme’s heart is some truly heart-stopping music about love, death, redemption and renewal, which prompts questions about 'authenticity', community, labour, political participation and the power imbalances that influence whose culture gets airspace and on what terms.
With contributions from: Anne Briggs, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie, Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax and A. L. Lloyd.
Collection: The Human Voice
Tracklist
- John Carlin
Eilean Mo Chrìdh (Isle Of My Heart) - Vera Ward Hall
Mama’s Gonna Buy - Trallaleri Of Genoa
La Partenza (The Parting) - Shirley Collins
The Oxford Girl - Alec Bloomfield
A Box Upon Her Head (Shoot Them All) - Antonina Sergi
Ninna Nanna (Lullaby) - Sarah Ogun Gunning
Down On The Pickett Line - Bessie Eldritch
I Wouldn't Marry At All - Jean Richie
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