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	The Anthology of American Folk Music
		Recently, Smithsonian Folkways issued a six-CD set called "Anthology of American Folk Music." Curated by Harry Smith, the original albums, six long-playing discs in all, were issued by Folkways Records in 1952.
		Accustomed to cassette recorders as we are, it's hard to imagine having been starved for music.
		It radically informed and purified our tastes, as well as the tastes of a whole generation of folk performers, by presenting us with selections from the full spectrum of what had been accomplished in recorded indigenous American folk music: a lost music after WWII.
	www.bobdylan.com /oldsongs/anthology.html (628 words)

	Harry Smith - Biography - AOL Music
		The three-volume Anthology of American Folk Music that he compiled for Folkways in the early '50s was instrumental in exposing much roots music to a wider audience and young musicians, helping to facilitate a folk revival and, by extension, folk-rock.
		When Anthology of American Folk Music was reissued by Smithsonian Folkways in 1997, it was deservedly considered a major event, though critics sometimes seemed to read mystical significance into Smith's intentions that were not there.
		Music collecting and compilations of archival releases were just one facet of Smith's life, which was rich with oddity and multi-dimensional achievement by any standard.
	music.aol.com /artist/harry-smith/361221/biography (1011 words)

	Salon \| Sharps & Flats
		It's not surprising that his avowed goal in releasing "The Anthology of American Folk Music" was to alter a nation's consciousness.
		When "The Anthology" was released, it had the impact of a Molotov cocktail going off in a hushed room, and it awakened strange and seismic forces.
		Today's popular music is a layer of frost spread thin over the depths of "The Anthology," and as we scratch its surface, break the ice and immerse ourselves in its amniotic fluids, we might find that this time around, Harry Smith's done something far more impressive than change the world -- he's changed us.
	www.salon.com /music/sharps/1997/10/06smith.html (1233 words)

	Music: Letters at 3AM (Austin Chronicle . 09-29-97)
		The music he presented was, literally, the direct issue ("issue" as in "offspring") of this continent's most ingrained, institutionalized stain.
		In The Anthology of American Folk Music there is an intentional confusion as to what color each face is. For Harry Smith, in his notes to the Anthology, never identified a singer by race.
		In exactly that way, the beloved and the American Dream are interchangeable in these songs -- songs in which the beloved is always betraying you, or being murdered, or leaving, or promising to visit you in prison, or marrying another, or watching you hang.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-29-97/austin_cols_ventura.html (1356 words)

	Anthology of American Folk Music
		The music itself on the anthology opens a door to a world that will be just as strange to most listeners of today as it was in 1952, and perhaps more so.
		The rationale for listening to a performance on the anthology's terms was not that it represented the voice of a specific ethnic group; rather, strangeness, passion and mystery, the anthology seemed to proclaim, are universal human traits.
		There are essays on the anthology's effect at the time, including a wonderfully pointed one by the folklorist Jon Pankake, as well as reminiscences of Harry Smith, who died in 1991, by those who knew him.
	www.expectingrain.com /dok/cd/97/anthology.html (1296 words)

	Folk Music - MilesofMusic.com
		A sort of folk music for the indie lo-fi set with a host of instrumentation ranging from the standard guitar, bass and drum combo to instruments more colorful.
		From a background in musical theater, he took his folk music roots and added an eccentric twist.
		Born in the heart of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and raised on the folk music of that area, Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition delivers just what the title promises.
	www.milesofmusic.com /folk_music.html (1024 words)

	Common-place: Vox Pop: Reviving the Folk Revival
		JoAnne Mancini is lecturer in American studies at the University of Sussex, in Brighton, England.
		She is the author of essays in Critical Inquiry and American Quarterly and a forthcoming book on the emergence of visual modernism in the United States.
		In part, the recurring taste for folk music has to be explained by a recurring desire in American culture: the desire to strip away the awful effects of consumer culture and return to a simpler, harder, more authentic time.
	www.common-place.org /vox-pop/200301.shtml (1212 words)

	Folk Music
		Folk music often expresses the character of ethnic and social groups and sometimes a nation.
		Folk music is usually learned by listening rather than by reading the notes or words.
		Roots Music encompasses a variety of different musical genres and their offshoots, such as alternative country, traditional country, American folk, blues, and bluegrass--all forms of music that are themselves deeply rooted in, and directly proportional to, the ongoing development of American society and culture.
	www.42explore.com /folkmusic.htm (1383 words)

	Granta: 'American Folk' by Greil Marcus
		In most of the vast amount of commentary that greeted the reissue of the Anthology of American Folk Music in 1997, the music was taken as a canon, and the performers as exemplars of the folk.
		This is the classic Sixties account of what folk music is, how it works, how it is seized by the dominant discourse of the time and turned into a soulless commodity—the classic account of who the folk are, of how even when everything they have is taken from them, their essential goodness remains.
		On the Anthology, the spiritual ‘Present Days’, the same group’s recording from the same year, has a deep, mature bass, a reedy lead by a man you can see as the town pharmacist, then a farmer or a preacher taking the most expansive moments of the tune, their wives filling out the music.
	www.granta.com /article-excerpt?article_id=1453 (4396 words)

	Smithsonian Folkways - Anthology of America Folk Music - Old Time Songs - African American & Afro Music
		The Anthology of American Folk Music, Edited by Harry Smith, is one of the most influential releases in the history of recorded sound.
		The importance and quality of the Anthology reissue and the accompanying documentation was recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which bestowed two Grammy Awards on Folkways for this project: 1997 Best Historic Album, and 1997 Best Album Notes.
		It played a seminal role in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, which has had lasting political, economic, and aesthetic impact on American culture.
	www.folkways.si.edu /learn_discover/anthology/anthology.html (411 words)

	Music: Old Folk (Metro Pulse . 09-29-97)
		Smith, 29 years old at the time of the Anthology's release, was a mystically-inclined fellow with a passion for collecting records, studying anthropological and scientific texts, checking out what American Indians did during their most secret rituals, examining patchwork quilts made by old ladies, and gathering paper airplanes found on the street.
		In the '80s, he was invited to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was employed for several years by the Boulder, Colorado, Naropa Institute as a "shaman in residence" for their summer programs.
		The Anthology of American Folk Music is the root cellar of country and rock both.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-29-97/knox_gamut.html (1497 words)

	Harry Smith tribute
		The Anthology of American Folk Music was originally issued in 1952, compiled by musicologist/film-maker/alchemist Harry Smith.
		Listening to the amazing breadth of music herein, which is, among other things, the very foundation of rock and roll, I was long ago struck by the fact that when it was released in 1952, rock and roll was just being born.
		I believe that it was largely because of the Anthology that elements of traditional style and material eventually began to surface in the field of Pop and Rock music.
	www.furious.com /perfect/harrysmith.html (2690 words)

	Apples & Oranges: Anthology of American Folk Music
		The predominantly white "country music" audience may not recognize anyone whose work is represented here, though nearly all (maybe all) of these recordings were made by rural Southerners who drew inspiration from a great mass of oral history and "traditional" material.
		In other words, one might say that the Anthology consists of "country music," as opposed to "town music," but to say so without qualification would be misleading, in light of what the phrase "country music" has come to signify since the 1930s.
		One of the highlights of the entire Anthology project is the transition from the revelry of "Moonshiner's Dance" (last track on Disc A) to the moaning of "Must Be Born Again" by Rev. J.M. Gates and his choir (first track on Disc B).
	hometown.aol.com /hsauertieg/music/aafm.htm (1289 words)

	village voice > music > Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four by Robert Cantwell
		The Anthology concentrated what had been dispersed, recovered what was forgotten, transformed obsolescence into innovation—and in time the present made shift to accommodate the music he had brought back to life.
		This is music as swift and irresistible as a computer virus, music sung and played at just the moment that the highway construction crew, or the newspaper reporters, or the TVA bureaucrats, or the recruiting officers, or the real estate agents, are putting down stakes—and in some degree played to them.
		This is a music at the cusp of change, music that knows where it is and goes ahead anyway, with a gratified and gratifying irony that springs from irreversible entanglement with all-encompassing power.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0031,cantwell,16939,22.html (2071 words)

	Amazon.ca: Anthology of American Folk Mus: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Music is ill-suited to being described in words, so I'll use an entirely different experience to try and convey what listening to this Anthology is like.
		The "Anthology of American Folk Music" put together by Harry Smith was originally issued in 1952 in three volumes of 2 LPs each, with a total of 84 tracks collected from old records.
		It is said that this collection played a seminal role in the folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s, influencing and inspiring the generation of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
	www.amazon.ca /Anthology-American-Folk-Various-Artists/dp/B000001DJU (1746 words)

	An american original: best known for his pioneering "Anthology of American Folk Music," artist and mystic polymath ...
		An american original: best known for his pioneering "Anthology of American Folk Music," artist and mystic polymath Harry Smith was the subject of a recent two-day symposium at the Getty Institute - Report From Los Angeles
		His most important achievement, "The Anthology of American Folk Music," a three-volume, six-LP compilation of '20s and '30s recordings released in 1952 (and reissued as a CD set by Smithsonian Folkways in 1997), did nothing less than change the course of popular music and remains a quirky yet defining touchstone of American culture.
		The extensive discography and bibliography in the Anthology booklet trace the folk origins of each of the 84 songs; its alphabetical index also catalogues the songs' common themes and references, such as "Dreams mentioned on record" (4 entries), "Law mentioned on record" (13 entries) and "Death mentioned on record" (26 entries).
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_89/ai_80497054 (841 words)

	PBS - American Roots Music : The Songs and the Artists - Clarence Ashley
		A mainstay of the medicine show circuit until the early 1940s, Clarence Ashley was discovered by a new generation when his early recordings were included on the Folkways album Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952.
		He came out of semi- retirement during the 1960s folk revival, became a popular staple of music festivals and recorded a pair of albums that introduced influential flatpicking guitarist Doc Watson.
		While his songs were revived by string band instrumentalists in the 1950s, Ashley had pretty much disappeared from the music scene until the 1960s when he met folklorist Ralph Rinzler who set up the recording session with Doc Watson that brought Ashley back into the spotlight.
	www.pbs.org /americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_saa_clarenceashley.html (287 words)

	Anthology of American Folk Music. - Review - sound recording review Whole Earth - Find Articles
		Anthology of American Folk Music Harry Smith, ed.
		The three volumes of Harry Smith's Anthology that Folkways released in 1952 were probably more responsible than any other recordings for driving the 1950s American folk music revival that spawned Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, et al.
		The Anthology sent a generation of folklorists armed with tape recorders to the South in search of living practitioners.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GER/is_2001_Spring/ai_74925375 (180 words)

	Anthology of American Folk Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Anthology of American Folk Music is a compilation of several dozen folk and country music recordings that were released as 78 rpm records in the 1920s and 1930s.
		Although the choice of music is idiosyncratic, the collection is famous due to its role as a touchstone for the US folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s.
		The music on the compilation provided direct inspiration to much of the emergent folk music movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthology_of_American_Folk_Music (905 words)

	NPR : America's Folk Music Anthology
		The Anthology of American Folk Music was drawn from the collection of Harry Smith, a 29-year-old music lover, poet and filmmaker living in New York City.
		Young folk singers such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and the New Lost City Ramblers would later include many of the songs in their performances.
		Place says that when organizers of the Newport Folk Festival and other venues brought Mississippi John Hurt and Dock Boggs to perform, the audiences thought, "These are people from the Anthology.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/jul/anthology (847 words)

	Music: A Folk Anthology Revisited - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His immodestly titled “Anthology of American Music” became a self-fulfilling prophecy: for better or worse, these are the songs that define our folk-music tradition today.
		At the very least they jump-started the folk revival movement of the 1950s and ‘60s—which is odd because the recordings weren’t more than 30 years old at the time, and most of the artists were still alive.
		Today the people who count the anthology (and the Beat Generation shaman behind it) as an influence run the gamut from Lou Reed to Beck, from Phillip Glass to Beth Orton.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15434105/site/newsweek/?nav=slate (792 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Critical List - Anthology of American Folk Music
		The Anthology of American Folk Music, originally released in 1952 by Folkways, is Smith's single-handed exploration of indigenous music in the USA.
		The American folk tradition, by virtue of the enormous range of influences, was particularly vibrant, waves of immigrants bringing the indigenous music of their native cultures with them (not always voluntarily, it has to be said, in the case of African Americans).
		Also, folk music's connection to the lives of everyday working people meant it was adopted as a paragon of authenticity, closely allying folk to left wing politics (something which continues to this day.)
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/shows/criticallist/must_have_anthology.shtml (779 words)

	American Folk Songs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Guitar Masters presents this collection of authentic American Folk tunes for your enjoyment.
		Folk music records the pain, sorrow, joys, and affairs of the heart from a bygone era.
		It is an accurate reflection of a moment in time when community, family, and friends shared hardships and pleasure.
	guitar-primer.com /Folk (59 words)

	Jelly review: Anthology of American Folk Music
		The Anthology was first released in 1952, compiled by a twenty-nine-year-old Northwestern eccentric with the deceptively inconspicuous name of Harry Smith.
		It is a carefully edited compendium of one man’s view of American folk music, drawing exclusively from commercial recordings originally released from 1927 to 1932.
		Although there are recording cylinders containing folk songs from as early as 1888, the period captured here dates from the beginning of electronic recording to the general shutdown of the folk music industry due to the Great Depression.
	www.jellyroll.com /06/anthologyof.html (1214 words)

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