Firmly rooted in the dramatic landscapes and histories of Michigan, Field Recordings uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of personal origin, family, art, and masculinity. The speakers of these poems navigate Michigan's folklore and folkways while exploring more personal connections to those landscapes and examining the timeless questions that occupy those songs and stories. With rich musicality and lyric precision, the poems in Field Recordings look squarely at what it means to be a son, a brother, an artist, a person.
Inspired by the life and writings of famous ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, Field Recordings is divided into three sections. It is anchored by a long poem that tracks Alan Lomax on his 1938 journey through Michigan collecting music for the Library of Congress. This poem speaks to the complex process of recording the voices and stories of working-class musicians in Michigan in the early part of the twentieth century. It is rich with the pleasures of music and storytelling and is steeped in history. Like the rest of the collection, it also speaks to the questions and anxieties that, like music, transcend time and technology.
In poems alternately elegiac and rhapsodic, Field Recordings explores the way art is produced and translated, the line between innovation and appropriation, and the complex, beautiful stories that are passed between us. From poetry readers to poets, music fans to musicians, this collection will undoubtedly appeal to a wide audience.

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Field recordings : poems

Brakefield, Russell

Great Lakes Books

Painted Turtle

Made in Michigan Writers Series, Made in Michigan writers series, Michigan, 2018

Made in Michigan writers series, Detroit, 2018

United States, United States of America

The Way We Learned to Sing
This Is America and We Are Boys
The Butcher's Boy
Orchestra
The Boy Whose Every Word Was Song
Florist's Apprentice, Age 19
Northern Michigan After Bar
Rag
The Ballad Form
Pardon, Trout Farm
Gate Keeper
Calendar Customs
Myth
After the Labor Day Procession
Minstrel
Silent Movie with Playback Slowed Down
Barn Dance
Rules for Recording Traditional Music, An Erasure
River Song
Distances Between the Head and Chest
Effigy
Field Recordings
The Wraith in the Creek
Mackinaw Island
Nain Rouge, Red Gnome
The Dog-man from Luther
The Girl with Birds for Hands
Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy
Habitat Diorama
Unreliable Auguries
Halcyon and Her Mortal Lover
Carnival Song
The High and Lonesome Sound
Fermata
Ode to Joy
Shutter, Lag
Morning Song
Ruby Creek Road
Kalkaska County, Michigan
Wedding Song
The Perseids
Origins.

Firmly Rooted In The Dramatic Landscapes And Histories Of Michigan, Field Recordings Uses American Folk Music As A Lens To Investigate Themes Of Personal Origin, Family, Art, And Masculinity. The Speakers Of These Poems Navigate Michigan's Folklore And Folkways While Exploring More Personal Connections To Those Landscapes And Examining The Timeless Questions That Occupy Those Songs And Stories. With Rich Musicality And Lyric Precision, The Poems In Field Recordings Look Squarely At What It Means To Be A Son, A Brother, An Artist, A Person. --amazon.com By Russell Brakefield.

2024-04-13