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Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular (Issues & Debates)

Title : Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular (Issues & Debates)
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Rating : 4.30 (625 Votes)
Asin : 0892367350
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 296 Pages
Publish Date : 2016-01-26
Language : English

Today he is remembered primarily for his Anthology of American Folk Music (1952)—an idiosyncratic collection of early recordings that educated and inspired a generation of musicians and roots music fans—and for a body of innovative abstract and nonnarrative films.  Constituting a first attempt to locate Smith and his diverse endeavors within the history of avant-garde art production in twentieth-century America, the essays in this volume reach across Smith’s artistic oeuvre.In addition to contributions by Paul Arthur, Robert Cantwell, Thomas Crow Stephen Fredman, Stephen Hinton, Greil Marcus, Annette Michelso

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"A Strong Argument for Locally-Oriented Communities" Englewood Review of Books [ This review originally appeared in THE ENGLEWOOD REVIEW OF BOOKS - Vol 3, #11 - 26 March 2010 ]I've been thinking a lot in recent months about a church community's role in nurturing the local culture of its place (see, for instance, my review of Walter Brueggemann's newest book Journey to the C. C. Christopher Smith is an idiot. The only review if this book besides mine was written in 2010 by the alleged author identified above. His thesis in reviewing this book has something to do with folk music and churches.What he means by any of it is woefully obscure, poorly developed and completely lacking any and all intellectual

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