[78-L] Pressing Plant on TV "Modern Marvels Retro-tech"

Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 15 10:43:16 PDT 2010


Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
> simmonssomer wrote:
>   
>> Just got a book from the library. It's the highly praised "Dancing In The 
>> Dark" by one Morris Dickstein.
>> It is a cultural history of the great depression. I opened it with great 
>> anticipation. Then in the introduction I came upon this line.
>> "......musicologists like Charles Seeger and John and Alan Lomax traveling 
>> with rudimentary tape recorders, unearthed a treasure trove of folk music 
>> that........"
>>
>> And that was that.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Someone didn't do their homework.
> See here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lomax
> Amazing story!
> and...
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
>
>   
and
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/archive.html

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