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Huddie Ledbetter :: The Bourgeois Blues

Phonogram Copyright 1994 Indigo Records Lyrics and Music by Huddie Ledbetter Notice: Copyright Disclaimer MiM does not own the copyright for this video. This is a publically released not-for-profit music video permitted under the "Fair Use" doctrine. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. MiM considers that this video is part of an on-going scholarship project which constitutes a critical commentary and which adds transformative content regarding unjust conditions and perceived causes of those injustices now existing on planet Earth. MiM also considers that any copyrighted lyrics quoted in this publically released not-for-profit music video are also part of the scholarship project and appear in context along with transformative commentary that provides analysis of the explicit and implicit content of the lyrics. Fair Use: a doctrine in United States copyright law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use Home of the brave, land of the free, I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie. -- Huddie Ledbetter In February 1936, Lead Belly moved back north, settling in New York City and attempting to build a career as a performer. From 1937 to 1939, he made more recordings for the Library of Congress at the behest of Alan Lomax ... He was taken up by left-wing activists who increasingly used folk music as a forum for the expression of their political beliefs, and though he himself appears to have had only a limited interest in politics in general, his fervor for civil rights, expressed in such songs as "The Bourgeois Blues," concurred with theirs. -- William Ruhlmann Somewhat less remembered, even locally, is Lead Belly's "Bourgeois Blues," a song he wrote during his visit to Washington, D.C., on June 22, 1937. And as a first impression of Washington, it was an incisive, damning indictment of the city’s rampant Jim Crow segregation conveyed in 3 minutes of rippling 12-string blues. Lead Belly's journey to Washington came at the request of Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress, who wanted to record some of Lead Belly’s songs in the Library's studio. Within hours of his arrival in Washington, Lead Belly came face to face with racism. -- Nick Scalera He came to stay with me in Washington. Washington, at that time, was a Jim Crow town, and blacks weren't supposed to enter white hotels or houses. Well, I lived in a little apartment across from the Library of Congress, and Lead Belly and his wife, Martha, came up to spend the night with us. The landlady objected, and Lead Belly and Martha, at the head of the stairs, heard the argument that I had with the lady -- she said she was going to call the police and have us all put out. So we finally had to get in a car and find a hotel. But Lead Belly made a song about this called "Bourgeois Blues." -- Alan Lomax The Bourgeois Blues by Huddie Ledbetter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bour...