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The biography of Folkway Records founder Moe Asch who is best known for his recordings of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. A clean, tight unread copy. DJ is somewhat rubbed with one closed tear to back. Bookseller Inventory # 000928
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Synopsis: The founder of Folkways Records in 1948 and its director for nearly forty years, Moe Asch was committed to preserving the entire range of the world's musical and oral traditions. Using Asch's career as a lens through which to view folk music, leftist politics, and the recording industry, Peter D. Goldsmith shows how Asch's breadth of vision produced an extraordinary recorded legacy--from jazz, historical ballads, and children's street rhymes to the folk music of Woody Guthrie and the blues of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
Review: "...as an examination of how Folkways successfully mined obscure veins of vernacular music for four decades, this is a valuable study."
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1ST edition (January 1, 1998)
(ISBN: 1560988126 / 1-56098-812-6 )
Goldsmith, Peter D.
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