Re: Not quite on topic, but of interest

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

It's good to see the American Folklife Center of the Library of
Congress engaged in this work.  For, I believe, 10 years (1983?-1992)
they produced a selected list of the year's American Folk Music and
Folklore Recordings, including Jewish recordings (e.g., the Dave
Tarras Yazoo collection in the 1992 list).  I look forward to their
work in the future.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: George Robinson <GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Monday, May 08, 2000 2:58 AM
Subject: Not quite on topic, but of interest


>Khaverim --
>
>This is not exactly Jewish music, but many of you will be interested:
>
>"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the
>Fort Valley Music
>Festivals, 1938-1943
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/
>Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed
>Collection
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/
>
>The American Folklife Center of the Library of
>Congress has announced
>the availability of two new American Memory
>collections of recorded
>music. The first, Now What a Time, provides
>access to over 100 sound
>recordings and related documentation from what
>may have been the
>"first folk festival organized entirely by and
>for African
>Americans." The recordings feature guitar, banjo,
>harmonica, and
>choral arrangements. In addition to songs
>recorded at the Fort Valley
>Music Festival in Georgia, there are music
>recordings from Tennessee
>and Alabama made between 1938 and 1941. The
>second collection, Fiddle
>Tunes of the Old Frontier, features more than 180
>original sound
>recordings of traditional fiddle tunes performed
>by Henry Reed of
>Virginia. The recordings are accompanied by field
>notes taken in
>1966-67 by folklorist Alan Jabbour, a glossary of
>musical terms, 69
>musical transcriptions, as well as photographs,
>and a biographical
>sketch of Reed's life.
>
>Best,
>George Robinson
>
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