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Song leader and Mississippi State Penitentiary inmate Heuston Earms discusses work-songs, his time in the penitentiary, his childhood and parents' fights, and the murder that landed him in prison. Recorded by Alan Lomax at Parchman's Camp B, Lambert, Miss., September 19-20, 1959. Earms told Lomax he was eligible for parole in 1962; when and if he got out of Parchman is unknown. He died July 4, 1989. His place of death was listed as Tutwiler, Miss., 16 miles southwest of the Lambert camp. 

Interview with Parchman Farm inmate Heuston Earms (1959)

"Athanasius Kircher Kircher thought it best to plot out a piece of music in advance on a sheet of paper which represented the cylinder’s curved surface 'projected into a plane' for ease of viewing. He provided illustrations of five such “projections” in his book (<i>Musurgia Universalis<i/>, 1650), each one representing a different musical program, and all five of these “projections” may be heard educed paleospectrophonically." — Patrick Feaster, from <i>Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980–1980</i> http://dust-digital.com/feaster

Magia Phonotactica (1650)

Jonathan Ward runs the Blog Excavated Shellac, where he uploads rare 78 rpm records. Plus he compiled the 4-CD Box «Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM», Grammy nominee for best historical album of 2012. In this Norient.com podcast Ward tells me about his fascination with shellac, about how bloggers and ethnomusicologists don’t meet, and about a typical phenomena: «Blogger fatigue». Keep checking out his work! By Thomas Burkhalter, norient.com. More Info: http://norient.com/podcasts/the-world-at-78-rpm/

Magia Phonotactica (1650)

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