![[Fields Ward of Bog Trotters Band, with guitar, Galax, Virginia]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYvZmllbGRzLXdhcmQtb2YtYm9nLXRyb3R0ZXJzLWJhbmQtd2l0aC1ndWl0YXItZ2FsYXgtdmlyZ2luaWEtY2FiNTQ2LTEwMjQuanBn/320/259/jpg "[Fields Ward of Bog Trotters Band, with guitar, Galax, Virginia]")
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[Fields Ward of Bog Trotters Band, with guitar, Galax, Virginia]
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Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists.
Handwritten on back: "Fields Ward Galax, Va. 1937."
Accompanying note reads: "These pictures were made by CBS photographer at the time of the A. Lomax School of the Air Broadcast in Galax."
Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.
Exhibited: "The Possible" at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Jan. 2014-May 2014.
The tradition of brass bands in America starts in New Orleans, late 19th century. New Orleans brass bands could feature trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saxophones, sousaphones and percussion. The music played by these bands was a fusion between European military band music and African folk music brought to the Americas by west African slaves and the idiom played a significant role in the development of traditional jazz.
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