Word: folklorists
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...years ago Carl Carmer, writer & folklorist (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum)., put on a radio program called "Your Neck of the Woods." devoted to the folklore and folksongs of different States. From it sprang a plan to issue a comprehensive series of phonograph albums devoted to the songs of every State...
...Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly was jugged again, this time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, convicted of stabbing six Negroes in a fight over a can of whiskey. But again Lead Belly's minstrelsy came to his rescue. Texas' eminent Folklorist John A. Lomax, poking about the jails and slums of Louisiana in search of folk ballads, heard Lead Belly sing, found him a walking encyclopedia of salty Negro "sinful songs" and ballads. At Lomax' suggestion Lead Belly was pardoned again...
Taking Lead Belly north with him to Manhattan, Folklorist Lomax gave him a first shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...
...likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs a background of form to make it so much as interesting to an intelligent enjoyer. The barn-dances, upon which you dwell, are of course merely the play-boy accompaniment of a period and have a folklorist sort of interest; they are not justly taken as typical of the movement you comment...