Much better than a field holler

Here's what I love about the internet. Renee and I were having an exchange about field hollers, which led me to thinking about Alan Lomax, which caused me to idly plug his name into a YouTube search, which pulled up this incredible gem of a video. It's Bukka White during the Newport Folk Festival in 1966. Lomax made the original film. You can read about its production here

This clip exemplifies everything that makes people twitchy about Lomax; i.e., the vaguely prurient white fascination with African-American music and culture. Keeping that in mind, this is a riveting 5 minutes of video. Don't just listen to the music. Watch the dancing, and the dynamic between the men, the lone woman, and White.