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American Communist Party (CPUSA)
-Identified itself with such demoncratic traditions as ethnic pluralism
-When Party was trying to Americanize itself, the federal government was in the process of preserving and collecting folk culture
-The Workers Music League (WML) became major music association connected with CPUSA
-Charles Seeger helped lead the way in the movement; he formed the New York Composer's collective to encourage the creation of proletarian songs
Folkways Records
-A record label that documents folk and world music
-The label became very influential on a generation of folk singers because of its release of a great number of old-time recordings by re-discovered performers from the 1920s and 1930s like Dock Boggs and Clarence Ashley, as well as contemporary performers like the New Lost City Ramblers
-The Anthology of American Folk Music originally appeared on the Folkways label
-First bluegrass LP made on this label
Child Ballads
a literary text, njot a song or melody, that child collected in libraries.
-usually of British origin
-i.e. gypsy laddie
race records
-niche money making market developed by Ralph Peer
-gramaphone records made by and for African Americans during the early 20th century, particularly during the 1920s and 1930s. They primarily contained "race music," which comprised a variety of African American genres music such as blues, jazz, and gospel music, but many also contained comedy.
-labeled "race records" in reference to their marketing to African Americans, but white Americans gradually began to purchase such records as well
i.e. "crazy blues" by Mamie Smith
hillbilly records
-another niche money-making market discovered by Ralph Peer
- for ignorant rural white southerners
-1927- auditions- 2 acts came in:
-The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers- became enormously successful recording artists
-became country music w/ commercialization
Ballad
- a story told in a song
a song that belonged to a living tradition. They cfocus on a single situation; they are dramatic, in that action occurs during the course of the song; the narrator is impersonal, making no judgements. Favor event over explanation.
Archive of American FOlk Song
founded in 1928 at the LIbrary of Congress in D.C. Idea came from RObert Gordon, a scholar/collector who was named the collection's first archivist. In 1937, it began receiving a small stipend from Congress.