Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet Room to Capitol Hill. In the State Department they put up the coded progress reports by the hour. The old Southeast Asia hands walked with a little more pride among their mementos, which have never been put away, including a stuffed mongoose and a fine selection of tribal folk art. Suddenly there was a resurgence of the collapsible aluminum pointer, that riding crop of bureaucratic status. All up and down the ranks, the pointers were extended with sharp clicks, the desk officers and colonels whacking the charts authoritatively as they explained the fluid fronts, slapping their trouser legs...
...York, the Rockefeller Foundation is not ordering up any new music, but it has launched something as commendable: a four-year, $4 million project to issue a 100-LP collection of American music from early times to the present. The archives of jazz, folk, pop and the classics will constitute about one-half of the set. When no recordings can be found for works of such composers as John Paine (1839-1906), Arthur Farwell (1872-1952), or possibly some of today's composers, new ones will be made. Says Howard Klein, director of the foundation's arts program...
...said that the "Chilean Song" movement was linked to a resurgence of folk art under Allende...
...seven members of the folk-singing group were members of the Communist Youth Organization in Chile during the regime of former President Salvador Allende. They now live and perform in exile...
...Folk Art Revival...