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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 ]
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.
In 2003, Smithsonian Folkways, in conjunction with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, began a project called "Save Our Sounds" that aims at preserving the sounds vital to American history which are deteriorating, such as Thomas Edison's recordings made on wax cylinders and others done on acetate discs in the early 20th ...
Folkways can refer to: 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
Folkways was an early supporter of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Lead Belly, who formed the center of the American folk music revival. [ 1 ] Folkways influenced a generation of folk singers by releasing old-time music from the 1920s and 1930s, such as Dock Boggs , Clarence Ashley , and contemporary performers like the New Lost City Ramblers .
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Seeger selected the eleven songs for the album from an anthology of folk songs for children that had been published by his stepmother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, in her 1948 book titled American Folk Songs For Children, ISBN 0-385-15788-6, a book of musical notations and notated guides.
A companion to the American South. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-21319-8. Botkin, B. A. A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South (1949) Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South (1941) Cobb, James C. Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity (2005)