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Introducing American Folk Music

Various Artists
Introducing American Folk Music This recording is the audio companion to ethnomusicologist Kip Lornell’s 1993 edition of “Introducing American Folk Music.” Lornell researched the book while a postdoctoral fellow at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. His book is used as a textbook in presenting the many styles and influences of folk music in America from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The 27 recordings serve as examples of these roots and origins of American folk music. The collection is composed of Anglo-American and African-American secular and sacred music, ethnic music of indigenous peoples (Native American and Hawaiian), ethnic music that has developed into important American musical sub-cultures (Tejano and Cajun) and the folk music revival of the 1960s.

Track Listing

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Glen Smith and Wade Ward
01:11  
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102
Joe Patterson
01:30  
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103
Jean Ritchie
04:19  
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104
Harry Jackson
02:25  
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105
Red Allen
02:20  
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106
Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee
02:06  
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107
Phillips Family
02:14  
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108
Dock Reed
01:14  
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109
Moving Star Hall Singers
01:12  
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110
Chambers Brothers
03:24  
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111
Effie Hall and the Holy Church of God
01:23  
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112
Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas
01:38  
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113
Lead Belly
02:30  
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114
Big Joe Williams
02:54  
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115
Klesmer Plus Tamburitza
03:54  
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116
Philip Broken Leg
02:19  
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117
Chippewa pow-wow drum group, Onigum, Leech Lake Reservation
01:06  
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118
Hoakalei Kamau'u
01:35  
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119
Tony Allemand and Rufis Allemand
02:06  
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120
Karl and the Country Dutchmen
02:26  
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121
Santiago Jiménez, Jr.
03:06  
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122
Southern Scratch
03:21  
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123
Woody Guthrie
02:30  
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124
The Harvesters, Walter, Ethel Raim
02:17  
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125
Sandy Ives
02:26  
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126
The Red Clay Rambers
02:29  
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127
Sonny Terry and Saunders Terrell
03:26