Documenting Blues People and Black Folklore (w/ Lamont Jack Pearley)

My guest for this episode is Lamont Jack Pearley, Executive Director and founder of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation & the African American Folklorist Magazine. He is an applied folklorist, an African American music historian, a traditional country blues artist himself, and an inductee into the New York Blues Hall of Fame.

We discuss a host of topics, including the meaning of applied folklorist, the relationship between folklorists & archivists, and the reason he founded The African American Folklorist Magazine I also chat a great deal with Mr. Pearley about the blues: Why the genre is such a potent lens for Black culture, hip hop songs that function as blues songs, and how being a blues artist informs his scholarly work.

• Lamont Jack Pearley's website: lamontjackpearley.com

• Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation: jackdappabluesradio.tv

• The African American Folklorist Magazine: theafricanamericanfolklorist.com

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Documenting Blues People and Black Folklore (w/ Lamont Jack Pearley)

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Episode Notes:

• Amri Baraka

  • Blues People

• John Wesley Work III

• James H. Cone

• Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner

  • Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

• Dr. Simon Bronner

• American Folklore Society

• Robert Johnson

• Son House

  • “Dry Spell Blues”

• Brandi Waller-Pace

• Beyond the Romance of the Field

• Black Junk

• John and Alan Lomax

• Ragtime

• Delta Blues

• Piedmont Blues

• “Mississippi Boll Weevil Blues”--Charley Patton

• “Can It Be All So Simple”-- Wu Tang Clan

• “Parchman Farm Blues”-- Booker T Washington aka “Bukka” White

• “Here Comes the Hotstepper”-- Ini Kamoze

• “Rikers Island”--Coco Tea

• “Rikers Island”--Kool G Rap

• “The Root”--D’Angelo

• “Got My Mojo Workin’”--Muddy Waters

• Hoodoo

• The Land Where the Blues Began

• Dolemite

• Muhammad Ali

• “So Many Tears”-- 2Pac

• Scarface

• “Briar Patch” – Devin The Dude

• In Living Color

• Moms Mabley

• Flip Wilson

• Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake

• Butterbeans & Susie

• We The Blues People Radio Network (WBPR)

• Porter Parish Grainger Blues Festival

• Maze ft. Frankie Beverly

• Stevie Wonder

• Curtis Mayfield

• Bad Boy Entertainment

• Da Brat

• Jermaine Dupri

• Teddy Riley

• “Shake Ya Ass”--Mystikal

• Groove Theory

• Five on the Black Hand Side

  • Glynn Turman

    • Cooley High

  • Clarice Taylor

  • Leonard Jackson

  • Godfrey Cambridge

  • Ja’Net DuBois

• Mississippi Blues Trail - Moss Point Blues entry

• Cam James video on Hiraya Media Ltd’s digital blackface on The Hungry Historian / Potlikker