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[Uncle Alex Dunford, of Bog Trotters Band, with fiddle, Galax, Virginia]
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Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists.
Handwritten on back: "Uncle Alex Dunford 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.
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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