Alan Lomax and the Soundscapes of the Upper Midwest: 75th anniversary of the Library of Congress Folk-Song Expedition to Michigan

Library of Congress

  • 4 minutes 58 seconds
    “Across the Straits of Mackinac”

    Popular music in a Polish-American community, Posen, Michigan.

    25 June 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 4 minutes 58 seconds
    “I went to Marquette: The Bellaires of Baraga”

    French-American singing in Baraga, Michigan.

    14 February 2014, 3:00 pm
  • 5 minutes 39 seconds
    Lost on Lake Michigan

    Irish-American song composition on Beaver Island, Michigan.

    15 November 2013, 3:00 pm
  • 6 minutes 25 seconds
    The Beaver Island Boys

    Beaver Island, Michigan, fiddling and bawdy songs.

    1 November 2013, 2:00 pm
  • 5 minutes 36 seconds
    Michigan-I-O

    Songs of the Great Lakes sailors performed in Traverse City, MI.

    21 October 2013, 2:00 pm
  • 6 minutes 10 seconds
    Songs and Tales of the Michigan Lumberjacks

    Lumbermen and Shantymen from northern Michigan perform their repertoires.

    15 October 2013, 2:00 pm
  • 6 minutes 15 seconds
    In the Shadow of the Chrysler Plant

    Serbian-Americans perform traditional music in modern Detroit, 1938.

    7 October 2013, 2:00 pm
  • 5 minutes 30 seconds
    Mrs. Maté of Delray

    A Hungarian-American singer performs “The Fisherboy’s Sweetheart” in Delray, a Detroit neighborhood.

    30 September 2013, 2:00 pm
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