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03234aim a2200421Ka 4500 001 4E2B29587A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231103010033 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 230222s2023 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9798350830798 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a PER018000 $a BIO005000 $a PER018000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Szwed, John. 245 10 $a Cosmic scholar $h [electronic resource] : $b The life and times of harry smith. $c John Szwed. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a Old Saybrook : $b Tantor Audio, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (16 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 13:20:08 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Paul Woodson. 520 $a He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, sat at the piano with Thelonious Monk, lived with (and tortured) Allen Ginsberg, and argued film with Susan Sontag. He was always broke, always intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, "the only person I met in my life that transcended everything." In Cosmic Scholar, John Szwed patches together, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century's most overlooked cultural figures. From his time recording the customs of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Florida to living in Greenwich Village in its heyday, Smith was consumed by an unceasing desire to create a unified theory of culture. He was an insatiable creator and collector, responsible for the influential Anthology of American Folk Music and several pioneering experimental films, but was also an insufferable and destructive eccentric who was unable to survive in regular society. He was "so devious," said Ginsberg, and "so saintly." Exhaustively researched and energetically told, Cosmic Scholar is a feat of biographical restoration and the long overdue deification of an American icon. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Biography & Autobiography. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Performing Arts. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Woodson, Paul. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9600983 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1b57b1e1-fd1f-494d-a02a-a5eda887c9e7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1219-1/%7B1B57B1E1-FD1F-494D-A02A-A5EDA887C9E7%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1219-1/%7B1B57B1E1-FD1F-494D-A02A-A5EDA887C9E7%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/1b57b1e1-fd1f-494d-a02a-a5eda887c9e7 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20231103010214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E2B29587A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search