Folk-topical recordings and American left-wing politics

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Protest songs actually originate from the colonial period. One of the earliest collections of protest songs were those written, printed and distributed by John Peter Zenger in 1734. The urge to express political beliefs in music dates back to as early the Hsia Dynasty in China, around 2,000 B.C., when Chinese emperors instructed officers of the imperial court to set to music the songs of masons constructing the Great Wall of China as a means of soliciting public opinion. The CD 'Songs for Political Action: Folkmusic, Topical Songs, and the American Left, 1926-1933' is evaluated.

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Producing blues recordings

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Kenneth Goldstein started out as a theoretical mathematician who was a record collector. He became a record producer when Stinton Records asked him what they should reissue as long playing records. He later worked freelance for Riverside Records, and after receiving his degree in folklore, for Prestige Records Inc. For Goldstein, producing records was both an end and a means to an end. He produced records for the market so he can produce the ones that he liked, which was folk music, both Anglo- and African American.

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"Cielos del Norte, Alma del Rio Arriba": Nuevo Mexicano folk music revivals, recordings 1943-98

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Recordings and revivals of Nuevo Mexicano folk music are discussed in a historical survey. A selected audiography of Nuevo Mexicano folk music recordings covers the period from 1943 to 1997. Sources of recordings are also listed.

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