Mack McCormick was an impoverished Houston musicologist who battled depression and paranoia to track down clues about Robert Johnson’s life.
Take a look at Mississippi in 1936. That was the year that the state’s William Faulkner published one of his greatest novels,That was also the year that Mississippian Robert Johnson recorded several of his greatest songs .
Several historians tried, however, to put the pieces together after the fact. The most dogged of them was Mack McCormick, an impoverished Houston musicologist who battled depression and paranoia to track down clues about Johnson’s life. He compiled his research into a book, to be calledthat was much rumored but never published. The few who read portions of it described it as a landmark work in the history of American music.
After her father’s death, Nix donated “The Monster” to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Inside the 90-linear-feet of materials were the manuscript forPlaying for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971. Anytime one culture tries to investigate another culture, there are bound to be awkward misunderstandings, wary skepticism and the temptation to unethical behavior. And when one culture is dominant and the other marginalized, those problems are magnified. And yet, if one desires an integrated, democratic society, cultures must mix, and the obstacles must be negotiated with not only ethical standards but also mutual allowances for a learning curve.
was published. While Thompson and Johnson shared a mother and Thompson and Anderson a father, the author had no blood relationship with Johnson. She did, however, share a house in Memphis with the older musician whenever the peripatetic Johnson stayed put for a month or two. Wald’s book is full of terrific musical analysis and influence-tracing, but he often confuses popularity with quality, as if “La Bamba” were Los Lobos’ best song or “Short People” Randy Newman’s. He also assumes a homogeneity of opinion within each culture’s reaction to Johnson—or any phenomenon—when in truth the differences within each group are more striking than the differences between.
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