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Summer/Fall 2014
Labor
  • Sharecropper’s Troubadour
    Cover Story
    Sharecropper’s Troubadour

    Pete Seeger introduced me to John Handcox by explaining that John was one of the twentieth century’s most important folk musicians. His songs and poems inspired Southern labor and civil rights movements in the 1930s...

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  • Bev Grant
    Artist Spotlight
    Bev Grant

    I look for the common threads that bind us through the personal stories of real people, each struggling for a better life...

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  • Musical Labor
    From the Field
    Musical Labor

    The Sukuma people perceive and experience musical labor as neither music nor labor but a performed behavior...

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  • Solidarity Sing Along
    Community Spotlight
    Solidarity Sing Along

    The Solidarity Sing Along has been taking place for more than eight hundred consecutive weekdays at the Wisconsin Capitol...

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  • Musical Labor Performed in Northwest Tanzania
    video spotlight
    Musical Labor Performed in Northwest Tanzania

    The farmers from Kisessa village near Mwanza, Tanzania, build tie ridges—raised earthen mounds into which the cotton seeds are planted. The accompanying kadete (one-string fiddle) player regulates the pace of the workers and spurs them on. Recorded by Frank Gunderson.

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Summer/Fall 2014 Issue

  • Executive Editors

    Daniel Sheehy and D.A. Sonneborn

  • Managing Editor

    Meredith Holmgren

  • Marketing

    David Horgan, Emily Hilliard, Meredith Holmgren, and Joan Hua

  • Proofreading

    Elisa Hough and Joan Hua

  • Production Intern

    Jennie Williams

 

  • Web Producer

    Joan Hua

  • Web Designer

    Sandy Wang

  • Technical Support

    Sandy Wang and Toby Dodds

  • Video Support

    Charlie Weber

  • Archive Support

    Cecilia Peterson, Jeff Place, Stephanie Smith, and Dave Walker

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  • The views expressed in Smithsonian Folkways Magazine are those of each individual contributor and do not necessarily reflect the views of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Smithsonian Institution, its staff or affiliates.

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