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Smithsonian Purchases Folkways Label; Company Noted for Diverse Recordings
The Washington Post; 4/1/1987; Lon Tuck; 579 words
; ... label specializing in American arcana, Folkways, has been acquired by the Smithsonian ... will become a part of the institution. Folkways is legendary in the record business and ... more than 2,200 published releases of Folkways, which was founded in 1947 by Moses Asch ...
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The World Record Set by Moe Asch; Folkways Founder Ran a Musical Marathon
The Washington Post; 6/28/1998; Richard Harrington; 787 words
; ... so it's entirely fitting that his life's work, Folkways Records, ended up at the Smithsonian after he ... represented on the 2,168 records Asch released on Folkways in his lifetime. Folkways, now known as Smithsonian Folkways and celebrating ...
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Profile: Efforts to provide access to the catalog of Folkways Recordings on the Internet
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR); 3/13/2005; JACKI LYDEN; 787 words
; ... Efforts to provide access to the catalog of Folkways Recordings on the Internet Host: JACKI LYDEN ... 8:00-9:00 PM JACKI LYDEN, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki ... small record labels, the best known being Folkways Recordings. He wanted to inspire listeners ... Contreras reports ... .
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On the Beat;Folkways' Fertile Ground
The Washington Post; 1/25/1995; Richard Harrington; 787 words
; ... founding in New York in 1947, Asch's Folkways Record Co. tended to be inclusive ... around the world. Asch envisioned Folkways as a "museum of sound." What better home, then, for the 2,200-title Folkways catalogue than the Smithsonian's Center ...
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Smithsonian Folkways to Open MP3 Music Store
The Washington Post; 4/1/2005; Jacqueline Trescott; 688 words
; ... downloads by offering the Smithsonian Folkways collection of ethnic and traditional ... Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Folkways will offer music that ranges from the ... potential broad exposure pleases many Folkways artists. "I'm all for it," says Mike ...
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NOW HEAR THIS.(historic sound recordings at Smithsonian Folkways Records)
Harper's Magazine; 7/1/2001; Burdick, Alan; 787 words
; ... of sound The archives of Smithsonian Folkways Records occupy an inner chamber of the ... years working in radio, Asch started the Folkways Records label. Its modest mandate: to ... Seeger and Ella Jenkins. Eventually the Folkways catalogue came to embrace more than two ...
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Political Folkways and Praying for the Dead in Muscovy: Reconsidering Edward Keenan's "Slight" Against the Church
Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2006; Martin, Russell E; 787 words
; ... enan's seminal article "Muscovite Political Folkways," the debate gained new life. In this ... of these clans. "Muscovite Political Folkways" was challenged on many grounds, including ... court. This article re-examines Keenan's "Folkways" and argues that many of the heretical ...
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Profile: Collection of Folkways Records music
All Things Considered (NPR); 9/19/2000; NOAH ADAMS, ROBERT SIEGEL; 787 words
; 00-00-0000 Profile: Collection of Folkways Records music Host: NOAH ADAMS, ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 8 ... NOAH ADAMS, host: It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Noah Adams. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel ... the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and the catalog of Folkways Records, which was ...
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Appalachian Folkways.(Book Review)
Journal of Southern History; 2/1/2006; Goan, Melanie Beals; 670 words
; Appalachian Folkways. By John B. Rehder. Creating the North ... Rehder begins his study, Appalachian Folkways, with an ambitious goal: to depict mountain ... change in the mountains, Appalachian Folkways provides useful, although encyclopedic ...
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Appalachian Folkways
The Journal of Southern History; 2/1/2006; Goan, Melanie Beals; 675 words
; Appalachian Folkways. By John B. Rehder. Creating the North ... Rehder begins his study, Appalachian Folkways, with an ambitious goal: to depict mountain ... change in the mountains, Appalachian Folkways provides useful, although encyclopedic ...
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