Folk Music is the map of singing.
ALAN LOMAX
Folk Music is the map of singing.
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Folk Music is the map of singing.
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The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes…but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
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We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they’re not like him.
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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
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The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
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He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
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People were saying that Southern folk song was dead.
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My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.
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That the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village.
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Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space.
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Crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities.
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