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Folk music collectors

Reading a good article in New Yorker about old time folk music and the people who tour the country recording the few people who still know the old tunes, Our Far-Flung Correspondents, The Last Verse: Is there any folk music still out there? by Burkhard Bilger:

The rediscovery of folk music, in the early nineteen-fifties, was an almost mystical experience for musicians of Rosenbaum's age. The folk records of the twenties and thirties had long been out of print, their musicians forgotten, and the Lomaxes' recordings were mostly moldering in archives. The McCarthy hearings were on television, duck-and-cover drills in the classroom, and the frictionless pop of Perry Como on the radio. And then, in 1952, Harry Smith released his "Anthology of American Folk Music."

posted by Bruce Wright at 11:28 PM #

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