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''The Search for Robert Johnson'' is a 1991 UK television documentary film about the Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, hosted by John Hammond, and produced and directed by Chris Hunt. In it, Hammond travels through the American Deep South to pursue topics such as Johnson's birth date, place and parents, his early musical development, performances and travels, romances, his mythic "pact with the devil," his untimely murder in his late twenties, the discovery of possible offspring, and the uncertainty over where Johnson is buried. Throughout, Johnson's music is both foreground and background, from recordings of Johnson and as performed on camera by Hammond, David Honeyboy Edwards, and Johnny Shines. ==Documentary== Blues musician and "keeper of the flame" John Hammond described his journey into the American South as "the quest of a lifetime".〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 4:48〕 His father, record producer and jazz impresario John H. Hammond, had planned and advertised for Robert Johnson to perform at Carnegie Hall, but Johnson died prior to the concert.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Vanguard Records VAN70169 )〕 The film is loosely organised around field work by Johnson researcher Robert "Mack" McCormick. Throughout the film, Hammond travels to locations where Johnson lived, performed, recorded, and purportedly where he died, and interviews two of Johnson's girlfriends and blues musicians who knew him, as well as two noted blues researchers.〔 Locations include the "Delta, the floodplain of northwestern Mississippi, on into Arkansas and Texas, and into southern Mississippi, where he was born and died."〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 04:35〕 The film has been noted for its presentation of new evidence, at the time, about Johnson's life. *Hammond describes Johnny Shines arriving in Helena, Arkansas, hearing there was a guitar player who thought highly of himself, and going to meet him. Shines re-enacts, with Hammond standing in for Johnson, the performance battle he had with Johnson on opposing street corners in Helena, where the two played and sang to pull away the other man's crowd of listeners. In the re-enactment scene, Shines gradually draws onlookers away from Hammond, "cutting heads," as described by Barbara Schroeder.〔 Note: on pp. 63–64, the description of audience movement is reversed, at least compared to the Bravo broadcast and 2006 DCDMedia DVD release.〕〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 24:20〕 *Interviewing Willie Mae Powell, once Johnson's girlfriend, Hammond plays for her Johnson's recording of "''Love in Vain''" which she had not heard before. When Johnson calls out Willie Mae's name in the song, she is visibly surprised.〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 10:00–12:30〕 *In the first documented interview with Claude Johnson, son Gregory and grandson Richard,〔〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 26:51〕 Claude's birth certificate is shown, as he describes that "Robert Lee Johnson" is his father.〔Bustard, Clarke (20 September 1992). ("Johnson's Short Life, Big Talent Revisited" ). Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA. p. J-3. Pqarchiver. Retrieved 17 August 2010.〕 Claude was legally declared to be Robert Johnson's son in 1998. *David Honeyboy Edwards, riding with Hammond through Greenwood, Mississippi, points out a yellow shotgun house where he says Johnson died.〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 40:08〕 This location was mapped in the National Park Service photographic documentary project "Trail of the Hellhound".〔Styles, Sean (2001). (Trail of the Hellhound: Robert Johnson ), U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 4 April 2006.〕 *The film presents the first record of direct testimony by Johnson researcher Robert "Mack" McCormick. McCormick had not published previous research under his own name.〔 *In the film, McCormick discloses that Johnson's association with "satanic legends" started not merely as myth concocted by others, but had its roots in the death of Johnson's first wife during childbirth while he was away. Her family blamed Johnson, mainly for being an itinerant musician singing "the devil's music". McCormick asserts that Johnson was condemned so severely for her death that he gradually "became that person", associating himself with the devil in his music.〔〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 19:20〕 *Robert Johnson's death certificate is shown in the documentary, "answering some questions, but prompting even more." It had been located by blues researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow in 1968, and independently by McCormick, who also tracked down witnesses to events surrounding Johnson's poisoning and death.〔''The Search for Robert Johnson'', 1991, 46:20〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Search for Robert Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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