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	Folkways Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Folkways Records is a record label founded by Moses Asch.
		The label became very influential on a generation of folk singers because of its release of a great number of old-time and bluegrass recordings by re-discovered performers from the 1920s and 1930s like Dock Boggs and Clarence Ashley, as well as contemporary performers like the New Lost City Ramblers.
		After Asch's death in 1986, the Folkways catalogue was left to the Smithsonian Institution which has re-issued many classic Folkways recordings under the Smithsonian Folkways label.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folkways_Records (144 words)

	Moses Asch & Smithsonian/Folkways
		Folkways Records was never a commercial success in the sense that it would have attracted the favorable attention of venture capitalists or investors.
		Folkways Records became a major resource not only to the general public, but to academic and research institutions as well.
		Few record companies were interested in continuing discussions with him when they learned of his inflexible requirement that all of the Folkways records be kept in the catalog.
	oldtimeherald.org /archive/back_issues/volume-6/6-1/asch-folkways.html (3354 words)

	From the Secretary - "All Music is Folk Music" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records in New York City, and for the next four decades, till his death in 1986, he and his legendary label introduced the listening public to an unprecedented expanse of musical sounds and oral traditions from cultures throughout the world.
		In 1987, the Smithsonian acquired the 2,168 recordings of Folkways Records from the Asch family, and the collection became the basis of a new label, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
		Folkways Recordings offers audiences access to their own musical heritage, even as it also encourages them to hear the rest of the world as others hear it.
	smithsonianmag.com /smithsonian/issues04/jul04/small.html (696 words)

	Folklife - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.html
		Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States.
		Through the dissemination of audio recordings and educational materials we seek to strengthen people's engagement with their own cultural heritage and to enhance their awareness and appreciation of the cultural heritage of others.
		Folkways Records and Service Co. was founded in 1948 in New York City by Moses Asch (1905-1986) and Marian Distler (1919-1964).
	www.folklife.si.edu /center/recordings.html (436 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This recording was made during a concert at Asia House on December 1, 1963, for the Society of Asian Music.
		The Simithsonian Institution acquired Folkways in order to ensure that its sounds and the genius of the artists would continue to be available to future generations.
		Smithsonian Folkways Records has a web-site where you can see their catalog and order a copy of this album in CD or cassette form.
	www.kairarecords.com /oudpage/egypt2.htm (257 words)

	Folkways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Folkways (sociology) -- a theory by the sociologist William Graham Sumner.
		Folkways (record label) -- a record label founded by Moses Asch.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folkways (86 words)

	Cornish Library World Music CD List
		Iran, I. [sound recording] [Edited by REC WM 10 the International Music Council under the direction of Alain Daniélou] Bärenreiter Musicaphon [196-] 1 disc.
		Volume 2 [ REC WM 109 sound recording] / recorded at the Istana Mangkunegaran, Surakarta, by Robert E. Brown.
		Record of changes compact disc WM 4 SamulNori Germany CMP Records 1990 26:59 Rivers of delight American folk hymns REC WM 87 from the Sacred Harp tradition / [ sound recording] : Word of Mouth Chorus.
	www.cornish.edu /library/cdlist_wm.asp (3750 words)

	Music & Poetry of Gary Green
		Today Gary's three legendary Folkways sessions are part of the Smithsonian's permanent Folklife collection and have been custom reissued both on cassette and CD by the museum.
		True to the Folkways tradition of not allowing re-takes or overdubs, Moe Asch left in the sounds of barking dogs outside the door and a jet flying over and rattling the aluminum walls of the 12' x 60' singlewide.
		Recorded in late 1981, just five years before Folkways founder Moe Asch's death, Gary's last Folkways album features his brother Ron playing lead guitar on several tracks, a long soliloquy on the meeting with Maybelle Carter, and a part-rock-parody part-tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis in a piano solo by Gary.
	www.garygreen.com /musicpoetry.htm (1023 words)

	Peter D. Goldsmith, Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Unbeknowst to him, Asch was stepping into the recording industry at a particularly important and fertile time for left-wing movements as well as for both jazz and folk music.
		From the moment he recorded Leadbelly's album of children's songs, Asch's career was always a few steps away from bankruptcy; every decade or so he would fold his current company (usually because of debts), only to start a new one immediately.
		They decided to avoid any hit records because they realized that the money and time it took to deal with a massively successful record was more than their staff could handle.
	www.greenmanreview.com /asch.html (1280 words)

	FEATURE: Pioneering folk music label turns 50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Asch, who founded Folkways Records 50 years ago this month, used his eccentric label to preserve and disseminate the sounds of North American frogs, Grand Prix auto races, propellers and jets, offices and junkyards, steam locomotives, tropical rain forests and science-fiction movie sound effects.
		Many of Asch's Folkways recordings became source material for a new generation of musicians in the folk music revival of the late 1950s and early '60s.
		"Folkways shaped my concept of what music is and what it could be," Mickey Hart, a member of the Grateful Dead who has sponsored numerous world music projects, told the audience during a slide lecture on the history of sound recording.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~rphillip/ec281/ec281art025.html (1114 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ Arts Article
		Goldsmith said, "There was a negotiation in progress [at the time of Asch's death] to have the Smithsonian [Institute] buy the Folkways Records label, archives and recordings.
		The Folkways connection was not limited to Washington, D.C., however.
		These albums were produced by Oberlin student Richard Carlin and "are collections of recordings Asch put out on Folkways [documenting] concertina music," according to Goldsmith.
	oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1999.10.08/arts/goldsmith.html (818 words)

	MIKE SEEGER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		During a remarkably prolific period in the 50s and 60s, the Ramblers produced a series of recordings that provided the source material for many a budding folkie's repertoire Ñ a veritable encyclopedia of blues, ballads and bluegrass breakdowns, songs of love and of labor.
		At the behest of Folkways Records founder Moe Asch, he became a leading producer of field recordings.
		Subsequent Folkways recordings gathered by Seeger included work by the Stoneman Family, Dock Boggs, Don Stover, the Lilly Brothers and dozens of other American musical pioneers.
	grateful.dead.net /almanac/vol2_2/Seegerp2.html (537 words)

	Folklife - Archives & Resources
		The 2,168 titles Asch released on Folkways include traditional and contemporary music from around the world, spoken word in many languages, and documentary recordings of individuals, communities, and current events.
		Folkways grew to be one of the largest and most influential record companies in the world.
		Folkways Records and the label's business papers and files were acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1987.
	www.folklife.si.edu /center/Archives/archives_Asch.html (128 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Folkways Records FJ-2801 - "Jazz - The South" (1 LP) 1958.
		Okeh Records (1918-1969) is directly associated with the release of many significant "race" records.
		Epic Records (CBS) released a 5-volume LP set of compilations in the '80s.
	www.uncg.edu /mus/courses/flmccart/amr/contents/bludsc.txt (331 words)

	center for folklife programs and cultural studies collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The archive consists of two major collections: the written, audio, and visual records of projects and exhibits sponsored by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, most notably the Festival of American Folklife, and the Moses and Frances Asch Collection of original material related to Folkways Records.
		Founded in 1948, Folkways Records released nearly 2,200 recordings of traditional and contemporary music from around the world, spoken word in many languages, and documentary recordings of individuals, communities, and current events.
		Founded in 1969 by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber, Paredon Records was part of a wave of cultural expression that accompanied the worldwide struggle for economic, racial, and social justice and national liberation of the mid-20th century.
	www.si.edu /collections/folklife.htm (677 words)

	design*notes
		Now, this often discussed but little explored dimension of the Folkways legacy is presented in an exhibition by folkwaysAlive and the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.
		Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948, considered the cover art and design an integral component of every record.
		Characterized by distinctive limited colour printing, tactile, matte finish and trademark fl background and edges, Folkways Records were easy to identify among glossy "mainstream" covers.
	designmichaelsurtees.blogspot.com (2962 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Folkways Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Folkways was particularly supportive of Guthrie's career and, between 1944 and 1945, Asch recorded nearly 140 Guthrie selections and meticulously archived the musician's voluminous notebooks, letters, and drawings.
		Disc Records ended in bankruptcy, but when Asch and his assistant, Marian Distler, launched Folkways in 1948, he refused to make efforts to sign commercially successful artists.
		Folkways captured other sounds of the decade by employing Guy and Candie Carawan to record the music and speeches of the Civil Rights Movement.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100458 (847 words)

	Slipcue E-Zine: Smithsonian Folkways Records (label profile)
		Two things distinguished Folkways from all other record labels: the first was its dizzying diversity, from a wide variety of ethnic American music to spoken word and international recordings; the second was that Asch always kept every record he produced in print, no matter how marginal its appeal may have seemed.
		Like Asch, the Smithsonian has committed itself to keeping all the Folkways records in print, and thus dozens of odd and interesting titles are in their catalog, which (as ever) is fun to browse through and marvel at.
		Some of the recordings are fragmentary, and all were recorded under the simplest of conditions, with just one microphone, out on a porch or in someone's kitchen.
	www.slipcue.com /music/labels/countrylabels/smithsonian.html (1158 words)

	Untitled Document
		New York City: Folkways Records; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2004], c1985.
		New York City: Folkways Records; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2004], c1978.
		New York City: Folkways Records; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2004], c1979.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /archive/acquipast/acqui_2004-08.htm (486 words)

	Record Companies and Their Histories from The Bomp Bookshelf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The story of a record label that took a genuine American art form, the blues, from the back porches and dusty streets and into the American mainstream.
		This is the tale of the early struggles, the establishment of a U.S. imprint in the 1930s, the effects of the War on the record industry, etc. Perhaps few care about this kind of historical arcana, but it's good to kow it exists.
		He claims that few ever knew the origins of the Decca name; for the record, it was inspired by a short-lived portable gramophone he saw as a child.
	www.bomp.com /bomp/BompbooksRC.html (5546 words)

	Southwest phonographs collection inventory at Center of Southwest Studies
		Processing information: Most of these LP records were stored for decades in cabinets in what was known as “Ute Corner” in the old Center of Southwest Studies at the top of Reed Library.
		The container list (including a much larger number of LP records that did not pertain to the Southwest) was produced by Fort Lewis College archival student assistant Marion Mester starting Oct. 29, 2001 and finishing in Nov. 2001.
		This description of a portion of the collections at the Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies is provided to inform interested parties about the nature and depth of the repository's collections.
	swcenter.fortlewis.edu /inventory/Phono.htm (614 words)

	Amazon.com: Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Folkways Records founder Moe Asch's significance as a curator of America's folk music can hardly be overstated.
		That Asch, a would-be inventor, ranks among archivists Sam Charters (who initially worked for Asch) and John and Alan Lomax in importance is a consequence of two folk giants who recorded for his Folkways label early on; the volumes of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly recordings preserved by Folkways remains Asch's legacy.
		Yet Moe Asch (1905^-86), founder of Folkways Records, was instrumental in popularizing and preserving America's musical traditions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560983701?v=glance (918 words)

	Big Bill Broonzy: Trouble In Mind - PopMatters Music Review
		Moses Asche founded Folkways Records in 1948 as a bit of an anthropological project dedicated to locating and recording music, spoken word, and sounds from around the world.
		Smithsonian Records merged with Folkways in 1987 to further ensure the legacy of these important cultural artifacts.
		Material for Trouble In Mind was culled from a mixture of Folkways studio tracks and live radio and concert broadcasts during the latter period of Broonzy's career in 1956 and 1957.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/broonzybigbill-trouble.shtml (831 words)

	ARSC: Association for Recorded Sound Collections
		Towers recorded the now-famous Duke [Ellington] at Fargo 1940 concert, which was released in 2000, in a special 60th anniversary CD edition.
		He has produced numerous recordings and written books (he is co-author of one of this year's award winners) and articles on ragtime, jazz, radio broadcasting, fl history, and individual musicians.
		An author, radio lecturer, and recording historian, Brian Rust is one of the pioneers of discography.
	www.arsc-audio.org /awards.html (4437 words)

	THE AUDIO DIMENSIONS OF HISTORY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND GUIDE TO AUDIO AND TEXTUAL SOURCES ON HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY ...
		Folkways Records sound discs : 33 1/3 rpm, microgroove ; 12 in.
		Sounds of war and life in Vietnam between 1968 and 1972; recorded by Claude Johner, assisted by Janine Antoine.
		The Blue collar trap [Sound] recording : a documentary on the plight of the laborer in moern society.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/gz580/documentaryproduction/audiodimensions.html (3491 words)

	Richard Dyer-Bennet Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The packaging for #1 includes a thick booklet, with lyrics, an essay by Anthony Seeger (Director and Curator of Smithsonian Folkways Records, and brother of Pete Seeger) and a biographical essay by Richard's daughter Bonnie.
		The rest of the records are produced on-demand using recordable CD technology.
		The other side is a number of traditional folk songs which are not often recorded or performed in professional venues (also quite bawdy).
	www.dd-b.net /rdb (572 words)

	Library of Songs
		From the archives we bring you recordings from history.
		These recordings are from previous published works from middle of last century and before.
		Recorded on location by Dr. Fances Densmore for the Buereau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
	drumhop.com /archives/SongArchives.html (224 words)

	Amazon.com: Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Originally known as a folk music label, Folkways, founded by Moses Asch in 1948 and now owned by the Smithsonian Institution, also released a number of fine bluegrass records over the years as folk revivalists became hip to the mountain style.
		Folkways founder Moses Asch released scores of bluegrass albums, and this collection comprises the cream of the crop from these recordings, including works from giants of the genre such as Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, the Stanley Brothers, and The Country Gentlemen.
		Recorded between 1956 and 1992, it includes three numbers from what's purportedly the first bluegrass LP ever, Folkways' American Banjo: Three-Finger And Scruggs Style.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000063NDJ?v=glance (1281 words)

	World Music Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		These are discographies (lists of recordings) of some of the Knight Library's Douglass Room Collections.
		The recordings do not circulate outside the Library, except to the faculty and Graduate Teaching Fellows of the University of Oregon.
		NOTES: A recording of classical Indian music, performed on the Veena, a string instrument which is indigenous to southern India.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /music/Discographies/worlddisco/worldiscoas.html (2885 words)

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