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Moe Asch's High & Low Notes
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
May 26, 1998| Author:
David Nicholson
| Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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MAKING PEOPLE'S MUSIC
Moe Asch and Folkways RecordsBy Peter D. Goldsmith
Smithsonian. 468 pp. $34.95
By David Nicholson, a Washington writer whose reviews appear
Tuesdays in Style, and who can be reached at nicholsd@clark.net.
Moe Asch (his given name was Moses, but no one used it) was a
remarkable man. An important figure in the folk music boom of the
1950s and '60s, Asch recorded and issued performances by such
luminaries as Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Lightning
Hopk...
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