Free Download Thomas Ruys Smith, "Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: America Changed Through Music"
English | ISBN: 1138318299 | 2018 | 278 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Released in 1952, the Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular visionof the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923-1991). Acollection of eighty-fourcommercial recordings of Americanvernacular and folkmusic originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured an eclecticand idiosyncratic mixture of blues and hillbilly songs, ballads old and new, dancemusic, gospel, and numerous other performances less easy to classify.
Where previous collections of folk music, both printed and recorded, had privileged field recordings and oral transmission, Smith purposefully shaped his collection from previously released commercial records, pointedly blurring established racial boundaries in his selection and organisation of performances. Indeed, more than just a ground-breaking collection of old recordings, the
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