Creating worlds of sound : the extraordinary career of Moses Asch -- Jazz is folk music -- Lasting friendships : Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger -- I saw America changed by music : Harry Smith's Anthology of American folk music -- Music of the world's peoples -- Striking lightnin' : Folkways and the blues revival -- My children's records are not kiddie records : discovering the children's market -- From the hills and hollers to the subways and skyscrapers : the old-time and bluegrass music revivals -- If I had a hammer : the folk revival -- History and spoken word : capturing contemporary expression -- The science of sound -- Smithsonian Folkways : a museum of sound.
Summary:
A history of the record label Smithsonian Folkways.
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