Showing posts with label black cowboys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black cowboys. Show all posts

Sunday, July 01, 2018

The Days Of Old In The Old West- The “Black Cowboy” And His Songs Via Smithsonian/Folkways


The Days Of Old In The Old West- The “Black Cowboy” And His Songs Via Smithsonian/Folkways






By Sarah Lemoyne





Recently in a film review of Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden’s iconic and twisted Western cowboy classic Johnny Guitar I noted that I had heard on National Public Radio a piece about the work of a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops who I do know putting together a compilation of recordings, originals and his own take, of the black cowboy song experience for Smithsonian/Folkways. I mentioned and gave that film as a prime example of how the black cowboy had been written out of everything from dime store novels to “oaters.” That was not the case and the black cowboy in the post-Civil War, post-hell Reconstruction period in its aftermath played an honorable role in “taming the West.” Listen up.        



http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/23/black-cowboys-music-dom-flemons