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Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Update: 2023-09-27
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On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith we spoke to Greil Marcus, acclaimed music author, journalist, and critic, about the reverberations felt around the world after the 1952 release of Harry Smith's highly influential multivolume Anthology of American Folk Music. "It was a sensibility—this set that Harry Smith created—that was passed on to people. Where it said to them, 'There's more in this music. There's more in this country than you ever imagined, so seek and ye shall find.'"

More about the exhibition: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/harry-smith 

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Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Whitney Museum of American Art