Name: This Is a Sound Spectrogram (ca. 1957-1980) by Dust-to-Digital
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: "The automatic sound spectrograph emerged from Bell Laboratories after World War II as a powerful new tool for visualizing recorded sounds—it’s the analog ancestor of the digitally rendered spectral displays in modern sound-editing software." — Patrick Feaster, from <i>Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980–1980</i> http://dust-digital.com/feaster

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)

"The automatic sound spectrograph emerged from Bell Laboratories after World War II as a powerful new tool for visualizing recorded sounds—it’s the analog ancestor of the digitally rendered spectral displays in modern sound-editing software." — Patrick Feaster, from <i>Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980–1980</i> http://dust-digital.com/feaster

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This Is a Sound Spectrogram (ca. 1957-1980)

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/

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