Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 [sound recording]
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content: Smith, Harry Everett 1923-1991
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content: Charters, Samuel Barclay 1929-2015
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content: McIntorsh, Lonnie
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content: Perkins, Gertrude
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content: Bumble Bee Slim
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content: Dixon Brothers
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content: Memphis Jug Band
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content: Miller's Merrymakers
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content: Thibodeaux Boys
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content: Potentially the "real" missing fourth volume to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. 78s sides from 1928-1936. At Smith's memorial, it was joked we are still waiting on the 4th volume. Notes in box indicate these tapes were compiled by Moe Asch, Sam charters, and Harry Smith, though without dates. Various interviews with Asch, Smith, and John Cohen claim the project was scrapped because Asch "did not have the documentation" and Harry "wanted to do more content analysis" but lost interest and many of his original working notes, and sold much of his own 78 collection to the New York Public Library. A "Volume 4" (2012) was put out by Revenant (RVN 211) in accordance with the Harry Smith Archives, it is unclear how they chose songs, supposedly compiled contemporaneously with the first three volumes, but it shares only a few artists and none of the songs found on this version, and none of Smith's unique graphics and descriptions, and Dick Spottswood claims no song titles or topical hints were known other than the Carter's "I am a Stranger Here" which does not appear in this collection. This series is likely what Asch referred to in 1972 when he said he had tapes of volume 4, and even a volume 5. Spottswood also mentions that a tape of 78s had been made. What seems to make this the "genuine" 4th volume is Smith's claim that "the problems involved in those interrelationships (shown in the original Anthology) have been solved since then, so there is no reason to bring those records out, they aren't as relevant." This series seems to be a more recent effort by Smith, Charters, and Asch to show new sets ethnomusicological interrelationships relevant to the cultural and scholarly problems of the 1960s. With newly available info on these 78s, it seems a viable project for Folkways to complete.
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content: CDR copy
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content: Labor unions
label: Track information
content: 101 Weave Room Blues / Dixon Brothers. Guitar. English language
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content: 102 Sleep On, Mother, Sleep On / Lonnie McIntorsh. Guitar. English language
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content: 103 The Death of Leroy Carr / Bumble Bee Slim. Piano. English language
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content: 104 Gold Daddy Blues / Gertrude Perkins. English language
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content: 105 Jazzbo Stomp / Memphis Jug Band. Guitar,Jug. English language
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content: 106 Te Ma Leesa Jolie Blonde / Miller's Merrymakers. Fiddle,Accordion. French language
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content: 107 La Two-Step A Erby / Thibodeaux Boys. Fiddle,Accordion. French language
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content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: United States
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content: North Carolina
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content: Tennessee
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content: Georgia
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content: Louisiana
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs
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content: Old-time music
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content: Blues (Music)
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content: Cajun music
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content: Guitar
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content: Piano
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content: Jug
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content: Violin
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content: Accordion
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content: Industrial revolution
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
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content: Anglo-American
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content: African American
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content: Cajuns
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-10RR-3128
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 sound-tape reel : analog ; 10 in