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In February 2002, twenty years after the original publication of the magazine Fast Folk, Smithsonian Folkways released a two-CD compilation album of 36 tracks selected from the magazine's fifteen-year history titled Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters.
The American Folkways is a 28-volume series of books, initiated and principally edited by Erskine Caldwell, and published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce from 1941 to 1955. [1] Each book focused on a different region, or "folkway", of the United States, including documentary essays and folklore from that region. [ 2 ]
Smithsonian Folkways now offers the entire Folkways collection for digital download through its website, at $0.99 for most songs and $9.99 for most albums, available in both MP3 and FLAC format. In addition, Smithsonian Folkways distributes digitally via outlets such as iTunes and eMusic. [13]
Anthology of American Folk Music™ Various Artists Won 1997: Best Album Notes Anthology of American Folk Music™ Various Artists Won 2001: Best Historical Album The Best of Broadside 1962–1988: Various Artists Nominated 2001: Best Liner Notes The Best of Broadside 1962–1988: Various Artists Nominated 2004: Best Traditional World Music Album
Folkways or mores, in sociology, are norms for routine or casual interaction; Folkways Records, a record label founded by Moe Asch of the Smithsonian Institution in 1948 Verve Folkways, an offshoot of Folkways Records formed in 1964; Smithsonian Folkways, the record label of the Smithsonian Institution, which incorporated Folkways Records in 1987
This is a selected list of Smithsonian Folkways musical artists. The artists here were compiled from the index of the book, Worlds of Sound by Richard Carlin, [1] and the featured artists listed on the Smithsonian Folkways website. [2] Not all of the artists listed here recorded exclusively for the Smithsonian Folkways label.
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (originally known as The CooP) was a combination magazine and record album published from February 1982 to 1997.The magazine acted as a songwriter/performer cooperative, and was an outlet for singer-songwriters to release their first recordings.
The Smithsonian Folkways website uses the internet to make the recordings available as streaming samples, DRM-free digital downloads in MP3 and lossless FLAC format, and on CDs via mail order. A complete set of the Folkways recordings was also donated to the University of Alberta where Michael Asch, Moses Asch's son, was an anthropology professor.