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Introduction to Folklore

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@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Georgia Folklore Society

Description

Four episodes of Introduction to Folklore hosted by Doug Stevens. In the first episode, blind blues musician Jim Brewer plays several songs on guitar. Between songs, he discusses learning to play blues, his music career, and what blues mean to him. In the second episode, musician Robert Reneau plays several songs on guitar. He also discusses growing up in Belize, learning to play music, and his Bahai faith. In the next two episodes, 95 year old Elizabeth Cotten sings and plays guitar and banjo. Mike Seeger interviews Cotten. She discusses starting to play the guitar and banjo, playing left-handed, buying her first guitar, and working for Mike Seeger's mother.

Record Contributed By

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Musicians
  2. African American Women Musicians
  3. African Americans
  4. Bahais
  5. Banjoists
  6. Belize
  7. Blind Musicians
  8. Blues (Music)
  9. Brewer, Jim, 1920 1988
  10. Cotten, Elizabeth
  11. Folk Music
  12. Guitarists
  13. Musicians
  14. Seeger, Mike, 1933 2009
  15. Singing
  16. Songs
  17. Women

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