Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters, whooping it up in folk-song and endearing himself to the no-collar vote...
What about "swing"? This is a question which musicians are repeatedly asked to comment upon. The answer--what the fate of "swing" itself will be and whether or not it will become the folk music of America--will be decided by time alone, but it is certain that the impression which the various forms of jazz have made on modern art-music will perpetuate its distinctive rhythmic and melodic types as important parts of the serious musical idiom of our time...
...which to build the great tonal structures of classical music. The influx of popular musical ideas has never stopped.. The countless other adaptations of the dance by all composers continually emphasize the persistent influence of dance rhythms and forms. The last century has seen an unprecedented exploitation of folk-song in the music of Tchaikowsky and the rest of the Russians as well as of the composers of most of the other European nations...
...ideas of popular music are products of the rough treatment of every-day use and of the intuitive taste common to all peoples. The process is a sort of musical "survival of the fittest." Our jazz is not different in this respect from the folk-music of other peoples, and the qualities which have made it a great popular art form will assure it a lasting place in the musical idiom...
Transcendentalists complained that he was too practical ("Strictly speaking," said Henry, "morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys...