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Commenting on this video @sarahtaber made in Wisconsin about farmers standing up for immigrants against ICE and the whole MAGA project

The idea of a white Upper Midwest had to be forced into existence

The people who tried to record the folk music of the Upper Midwest in the 1930s for the Library of Congress never publicly released the records because they were in 30 languages and didn’t fit the ideal of a “melting pot” of white American assimilation
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#ICE #FolkMusic

AccordionBruce

@[email protected] replied · 4 weeks ago

@sarahtaber
The “melting pot” was supposed to turn everybody it could white

It took a modern crew of grad students to translate all those recordings, some collected by Alan Lomax, but the others by two women we somehow hear less about 🤔 Sidney Robertson and Helene Stratman-Thomas

They share the real picture of what a lot of American folk (ie country music) really sounded like back then

#FolkMusic #Immigration #CountryMusic

Collage black and white photo-spread from Folksongs of Another America. Includes a large band with fiddles and a hammer dulcimer. A man and woman with native instruments. A guy with an accordion. A band with a bunch of horns. And some women in traditional dress with string instruments from some culture I can’t identify.

AccordionBruce

@[email protected] replied · 4 weeks ago

@sarahtaber
Worth checking out the fab (and somehow kind of affordable for its hugeness)
Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest

Wrangled at last for the University of Wisconsin Press by James P Leary and all those grad students

Request it at your local library, it’s out in paperback, but you can still get the Grammy-winning hardback with 5 CDs from Dust to Digital for $35!
https://payhip.com/b/UfmcP 📚
#FolkMusic #Immigration #CountryMusic #fuckice

David Bender

@[email protected] replied · 4 weeks ago

@AccordionBruce
Thanks for the lead - I'm now a couple hundred poorer and eagerly anticipating the arrival of 13(!) CDs of historic recordings from around the world from Dust to Digital.

Unfortunately, you can no longer get the physical CD version of "Another America" from them anymore, just a paperback book and digital file with all the music. Though I did find a used copy on Discogs, where I'm now also a member and expect to lose even more money (but gain in musical delight).

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