Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each 15-minute program takes up one side of a $2.50 commercial disc (not playable on an ordinary phonograph). "The Ballad Hunter," whose commentary is part of the programs, is John A. Lomax, honorary curator of the Library's great Archive of American Folk Song...
Professionally performed with new words to old folk tunes, John Doe's singing scrupulously echoed the mendacious Moscow tune: Franklin Roosevelt is lead ing an unwilling people into a J. P. Morgan war. The ballad of Billy Boy observes that
Broadcasts this summer will be built around an appreciation of American music as seen in Negro folk songs, Western ballads, and spiritual chants. Feature of this series will be a history of American jazz, a big favorite with South Americans...
With a small membership, no popular support, no subsidy for its newspaper, Fritt Folk, it looked last week as though the Samling would starve to death. It also seemed that the Nazis had written another definition for "quisling" into the dictionary. A synonym for "traitor" in many languages, it now means "sucker" as well...
...program will include a Dutch Folk Song, "Prayer of Thanksgiving"; Josquin des Pres, "O Domine Jesu Christi"; Verdi, opening scene from "Otello"; Scottish Folk Song, "Bonnic Dundee"; American Folk Song, arranged by Edward B. Lawton, "Casey Jones"; and Sullivan, four choruses from "Patience...