O Brother, what next?: Making sense of the folk fad

Southern Cultures

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 50-69

  Filene, Benjamin ^a  

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EID: 60950601217     PISSN: 10688218     EISSN: 15341488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/scu.2004.0025     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, eds, Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs (Macmillan, 1941), xi
2. Jon Pareles, "Natalie Merchant, No Strings Attached," New York, Times, 13 March 2003, E, 1
3. B. A. Botkin, in Fighting Words, ed. Donald Ogden Stewart (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940), 11
4. B. A. Botkin, "The Folkncss of the Folk," English Journal (College Edition) 26 (June 1937): 464
5. Federal Writers Project described in B. A. Botkin, A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People (Crown Publishers, 1944), xxii, 9-10
6. Charles Secger in "Conference on the Character and State of Studies in Folklore [Proceedings of April 11-12, 1942 conference]," Journal of American Folklore 100 (October-December 1946): 512
7. Botkin, Treasury of American Folklore, 819
8. I discuss thirties populism in similar terms in Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 64-65
9. The phrase "I've-seen-America" is Joe Klein's, from his Woody Guthrie: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 146
10. B. A. Botkin, "WPA and Folklore Research: 'Bread and Song'," Southern Folklore Quarterly 3 (March 1939): 14
11. Charles Seeger, General Considerations for Music Directors in leading Community Programs, 1937 (unpublished), in Ann M. Pescatello, Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), 142
12. Botkin, A Treasury of American Folklore, xxii
13. Robert K. Oermann, " 'Old-Time Music is Very Much Alive' But You Won't Hear It on 'Country' Radio," liner notes to O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, 088 170-069-2 DG02, UMG Recordings, 2000
14. Ronald Bergan, "On the Run with Joel and Ethan," The Guardian, 15 August 2000, http:// www.guafdian.co.uk/arts/story/0, 3604, 353916,00.html
15. Oermann, "'Old-Time Music.'"
16. "Down the Road Apiece: O Brother Where Art Thou" Preview 45 (May-June 2000), www. preview-online.com/may-juneoo/feature-articles/obrother/ index.html
17. Greil Marcus, Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (Henry Holt Co., 1997), 95, 94
18. Jeff Place in National Public Radio interview, "America's Folk Music Anthology: 50 Years Later, Harry Smith's Music Collection Still Rings True," 17 July 2002
19. J. M. Mancini, "Reviving the Folk Revival," Common-place 3 (October 2002): 3
20. John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, eds., American Ballads and Folk Songs (Macmillan, 1934), xxvi, xxvii
21. What Seeger and Lomax actually did that evening in Newport remains the subject of much debate (see Romancing the Folk, 183 - 84). Regardless, their rage at Dylan's performance was real
22. Archie Green, Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 30
23. I discuss Lead Belly's case at greater length in Romancing the Folk, 47-75, from which the material cited here is drawn
24. Joshua Green, "Been There: Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Talks about Losing His Alt-Country Baggage," Salon, 17 March 1999, http://archivc.salon.com/ ent/music/int/1999/03/17int.html
25. Hugo Lindgren, "Questions for the White Stripes: Rock 'n' Rules," New York Times Magazine, 9 March 2003, 17
26. Kyle Bamett, "The Lomaxcs at the Gates of Culture: Authenticity and the Creation of 'Folk Music'," paper delivered at American Studies Association annual meeting, 16 November 2002
27. Greg Dean Schmitz, "A Mighty Wind: Greg's Preview," Yahoo Movies, 19 June 2002, http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id= 1808412293, 2