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Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson
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Review of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Book Review Of Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings And The American Experience, Ted Olson
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Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience
Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson
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Review of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot
Book Review Of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-First Century Traditional Singer, Ted Olson
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Review of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-first Century Traditional Singer
Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson
Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson
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Excerpt: In an interview published in the February 1992 issue of The Banjo Newsletter and conducted by bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and banjo player and instruction book author Tony Trischka, Carroll Best conveyed the depth of his connections to the instrument he had mastered: “When I was old enough to pick up a banjo I wanted to play.”
The National Storytelling Festival: Words, Music, And Memories, Ted Olson
The National Storytelling Festival: Words, Music, And Memories, Ted Olson
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Excerpt: A Other acclaimed masters of the spoken word scheduled to appear at this year’s Festival include David Novak, Minton Sparks, Joseph Bruchac, Milbre Burch, and Jackson Gillman. Each year the Festival seeks to represent storytelling from a range of cultural traditions, and this year is no exception. Rev. Robert Jones and Diane Ferlatte will present stories and music relating African American experience, while Festival attendees may also see and hear performances by Yiddish storyteller Shonaleigh, Chinese American storyteller and musician Charlie Chin, and Brazilian performance artist Antonio Rocha. Several special events will be held in Anyone who shares an …
Book Review Of Caleb Beissert: Federico Garcia Lorca & Pablo Neruda: Beautiful, Translations From The Spanish, Ted Olson
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Review of Caleb Beissert: Federico Garcia Lorca & Pablo Neruda: Beautiful, Translations from the Spanish
Czech Bluegrass Fiddlers And Their Negotiations Of Past And Present, Lee Bidgood
Czech Bluegrass Fiddlers And Their Negotiations Of Past And Present, Lee Bidgood
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Excerpt: Proc ty housle? ("Why the fiddle?") - "Fiddlers are all bad here - Why not write about the banjo or something else that Czechs are good at?"These questions about my ethnographic fieldwork came from musician colleagues with whom I working in researching bluegrass music in the Czech Republic, during a jam circle around a table. While these colleagues were mainly banjo and guitar players, these critiques of Czech fiddling are common even among Czech fiddlers, who are in many cases not as accomplished (in technical skill or musicality) as are their banjo-playing and mandolin-picking compatriots.
Recording Review Of Charlie Poole With The Highlanders: Complete Recordings, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Charlie Poole With The Highlanders: Complete Recordings, Ted Olson
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Review of Charlie Poole with The Highlanders: Complete Recordings
'Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?': The Johnson City Sessions, Ted Olson
'Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?': The Johnson City Sessions, Ted Olson
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Excerpt: In a recent interview, musician Wynton Marsalis said, “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve suggested to musicians to get The Bristol Sessions—Anglo-American folk music.
The Longest Night, Ted Olson
Word-Weaving In Tennessee: The National Storytelling Festival, Ted Olson
Word-Weaving In Tennessee: The National Storytelling Festival, Ted Olson
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Excerpt: Appalachia is a storied land. Every place within the region has its own story, and virtually every person who has spent a significant amount of time in a specific Appalachian place has been affected by—indeed, has become part of—that story.
Book Review Of The Troubles And Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories Of Northern Ireland, Ted Olson
Book Review Of The Troubles And Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories Of Northern Ireland, Ted Olson
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Review of The Troubles and Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories of Northern Ireland by James B. Johnson
Book Review Of The Oxford Book Of American Poetry: The Difficulty Of Anthologizing American Poetry, Ted Olson
Book Review Of The Oxford Book Of American Poetry: The Difficulty Of Anthologizing American Poetry, Ted Olson
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Review of The Oxford Book of American Poetry: The Difficulty of Anthologizing American Poetry
James Still: The Dean Of Appalachian Literature, Ted Olson
James Still: The Dean Of Appalachian Literature, Ted Olson
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Excerpt: James Still (1906-2001) wrote “Heritage,” his signature poem, in 1935, and he continued to read it before audiences large and small into the 21st Century.
Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet, Ted Olson
Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet, Ted Olson
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Excerpt: April is also National Poetry Month, and this column will focus on an April-themed poem—not one of the many April poems evincing sincere religiosity or forced sentimentality, and not that famous poem that cynically asserts that “April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land.
The Bristol Sessions: A Memorable Marriage Of Tradition And Technology, Ted Olson
The Bristol Sessions: A Memorable Marriage Of Tradition And Technology, Ted Olson
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Excerpt: Transcribed from a time-less song recorded in August 1927 by the Carter Family, the above lyrics (and their accompanying, memorably lilting melody) have moved millions of people worldwide.