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American Communist Party (CPUSA)
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-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 |
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Folkways Records
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-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 |
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Child Ballads
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a literary text, njot a song or melody, that child collected in libraries.
-usually of British origin -i.e. gypsy laddie |
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race records
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-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 |
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hillbilly records
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-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 |
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Ballad
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- 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. |
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Archive of American FOlk Song
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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.
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