Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading a book of Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue...
...father and his 18-year-old son-the father a scholar, the son a filial zealot-set out to record the folk songs of the U.S. When John Lomax had broken his son to the trail, young Alan went on alone. Between them the Lomaxes recorded 10,000 songs, many of which had never been heard more than five miles from the prisons, corrals or lumber camps where the Lomaxes found them...
...Lomaxes discovered that a Negro folk musician would sing either religious or "sinful" songs, but seldom both. To find the "sinful made-up" songs they had to go where there were plenty of sinful Negroes-the State penitentiaries. On a Mississippi prison farm Convict Joe Baker (alias Seldom Seen) told them: "I never had been in no trouble wid de law . . . but one fellow kept messin' up my homely affairs, so I blowed him down." Then he sang...
...Alan was hired by the Library of Congress as a $1,620-a-year assistant in charge of the Folk Song Archive. He sent song-collecting expeditions into Mexico and South America, to the reservations of the Six Nations Indians. He and his wife Elizabeth were married in Haiti, recorded voodoo rituals on their honeymoon. Today the Library has 25,000 songs on discs...
...apartment, he is often joined by his sister, Bess Lomax Hawes, who has handled the music for OWI's overseas broadcasts. By last week the Library of Congress had employed four clerks to handle 30,000 inquiries about his records. He describes the albums as: "Plain and unadulterated folk song, usually about death, sweat, hard work, love. No fancy-pants stuff like Oklahoma!. Miserable people make the most exciting music I ever heard." When he gets out of the Army he hopes to take American folk songs to Russia, bring back Soviet ballads. The Russians, he says, use folk...