Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: America Changed Through Music
- Author: Hair, Ross
- Author: Smith, Thomas Ruys
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Contents
- Part 1: Introductions
- 1. Introduction: America Changed Through Music Ross Hair and Thomas Ruys Smith
- 2. 'spun in a wheel of vertigo': Harry Smith and the Magic of History Geoff Ward
- 3. Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: The Critical Heritage Rory Crutchfield
- Interlude 1. "This Unknown Body of Americana": Alan Lomax's List of American Folk Songs on Commercial Records and the Anthology of American Folk Music Nathan Salsburg
- Part 2: "The whole bizarre package"
- 4. Harry Smith, the Anthology, and the Artist as Collector Justin Parks
- 5. Collage, Politics, and Narrative Approaches to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music Dan Blim
- 6. Harry Smith: Collecting Thought-Forms and Programming the Aerial Computer R. Bruce Elder
- Part 3: Deep Cuts
- 7. "Fatal Flower Garden": The Execution of a Child Ballad Robin Purves
- 8. Smith's Amnesia Theater: "Moonshiner's Dance" in Minnesota Kurt Gegenhuber
- 9. Dead Presidents: "Charles Guiteau", "White House Blues", and the Histories of Smithville Thomas Ruys Smith
- Interlude 2. How Weird is Folk? Sharron Kraus
- Part 4: "Other Lives"
- 10. "Volk Roots and Hiart Leaves": John Fahey and the Anthology of American Folk Music Ross Hair
- 11. Recycling the South: Contemporary Literature and the Anthology of American Folk Music Phil Langran
- 12. The "Other Lives" of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music Paola Ferrero
- Afterword Rani Singh.
- Index