The High and Lonesome Sound
The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb
(Sprache: Englisch)
"The music of Roscoe Holcomb transcended daily life. Although it was grounded in Appalachia, in East Kentucky, inhis little town of Dais, his music travelled like it was on a path towards a distant star." John CohenIn 1959 John Cohen travelled to East...
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"The music of Roscoe Holcomb transcended daily life. Although it was grounded in Appalachia, in East Kentucky, inhis little town of Dais, his music travelled like it was on a path towards a distant star." John CohenIn 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls "old music". Cohen asked for names at localgas stations but soon ran out of leads, and drove off the highway onto the next dirt road. Here he stumbled acrossRoscoe Holcomb playing the banjo and singing on his front porch in a way says Cohen, "that made the hairs on myneck stand up on end". And so by pure chance began the life-long friendship that is the background for The High andLonesome Sound.Cohen visited Holcomb frequently over the next three decades, and made many photographs, films and records of hismusic. In time Holcomb, a poor coal miner by trade, became a regular feature on the American concert and festivalcircuits. The "strange beauty and discomfort" of his music - a mixture of blues, ballads and Baptist hymns, and uniquethrough his high strained voice - was exposed to a larger audience. Nevertheless Holcomb died alone in a nursinghome in 1981.The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen's vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as ananecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to this underappreciated legend of American music whose every performancewas in Cohen's words "not just a rendition of music, but a test of something to be overcome".
"The music of Roscoe Holcomb transcended daily life. Although it was grounded in Appalachia, in East Kentucky, in his little town of Dais, his music travelled like it was on a path towards a distant star." John Cohen In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls "old music". Cohen asked for names at local gas stations but soon ran out of leads, and drove off the highway onto the next dirt road. Here he stumbled across Roscoe Holcomb playing the banjo and singing on his front porch in a way says Cohen, "that made the hairs on my neck stand up on end". And so by pure chance began the life-long friendship that is the background for The High and Lonesome Sound.
Cohen visited Holcomb frequently over the next three decades, and made many photographs, films and records of his music. In time Holcomb, a poor coal miner by trade, became a regular feature on the American concert and festival circuits. The "strange beauty and discomfort" of his music - a mixture of blues, ballads and Baptist hymns, and unique through his high strained voice - was exposed to a larger audience. Nevertheless Holcomb died alone in a nursing home in 1981.
The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen's vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as an anecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to this underappreciated legend of American music whose every performance was in Cohen's words "not just a rendition of music, but a test of something to be overcome".
Cohen visited Holcomb frequently over the next three decades, and made many photographs, films and records of his music. In time Holcomb, a poor coal miner by trade, became a regular feature on the American concert and festival circuits. The "strange beauty and discomfort" of his music - a mixture of blues, ballads and Baptist hymns, and unique through his high strained voice - was exposed to a larger audience. Nevertheless Holcomb died alone in a nursing home in 1981.
The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen's vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as an anecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to this underappreciated legend of American music whose every performance was in Cohen's words "not just a rendition of music, but a test of something to be overcome".
Autoren-Porträt von John Cohen
John Cohen (1932-2019) war Fotograf, Filmproduzent, und Gründungsmitglied der New Lost City Ramblers. Nach seinem Master-Abschluss der Universität Yale war Cohen an den Künstlerkreisen New Yorks der späten 1950er sowie der frühen 1960er beteiligt und arbeitete mit Robert Frank an dessen Film Pull My Daisy (1959). Er hat zahlreiche Bücher und Filme veröffentlicht und produzierte Aufnahmen traditioneller amerikanischer Musiker, darunter Dillard Chandler und Roscoe Holcomb. Bei Steidl sind Cohens Bücher Past Present Peru (2010), The High and Lonesome Sound (2012), Here and Gone (2014), Cheap rents ... and de Kooning (2016) und Look up to the Moon (2019) erschienen.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Cohen
- 2012, 1., Aufl., 272 Seiten, Maße: 21,7 x 27,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Steidl
- ISBN-10: 3869302542
- ISBN-13: 9783869302546
Sprache:
Englisch
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