[78-L] From tape to cylinders, WAS: pessing Plant on TV "Modern Marvels Retro-tech"

[JD]

> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:12:18 -0400
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> 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.
>
> Al Simmons
>

Thw author may have used the same fershlugenner research source(s) as did 
Levinson in his bio of Harry James, "Trumpet Blues."  In discussing the 
James' and other band's  direct to disc recordings for Sheffield in the 70s 
he states that the sessions were recorded to cylinder.  (Cue "Liberty Bell 
March")
JD   (Fershlugenner potzrebie)