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Folklife Center News, Volume 29, Nos. 1-2 (Northern Ireland, Seegers Folklife Center News AMERIC A N F O L K L I F E C ENTER FAMILY VALUES FROM SCARBOROUGH FAIR ALL THROUGH THE NORTH, SEEGER STYLE: TO CAPITOL HILL: AS I WALKED FORTH: BOARD OF TRUSTEES Librarian Appointees: Tom Rankin, Chair, North Carolina Jane Beck, Vice-chair, Vermont Donald Scott, Nevada Kojo Nnamdi, District of Columbia Congressional Appointees: Daniel Botkin, California C. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan Mickey Hart, California Dennis Holub, South Dakota William L. Kinney Jr., South Carolina Marlene Meyerson, New Mexico In the keynote address of Since his youth, Paul A recap of the fascinating Charlie Seemann, Nevada Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Massachusetts 3 AFC’s historic Seeger Fam- 12 Simon has been fascinated 18 and entertaining series of Presidential Appointees: lectures, concerts and symposia ily Tribute in March 2007, Neil V. with folklore. In April 2007,in Mary Bomar, Director, National Park Service Rosenberg examines the legacy of preparation for winning the Library celebrating the culture of Northern Lisette M. Mondello, Assistant Secretary for a family crucial to American music of Congress’s Gershwin Award for Ireland, held at AFC in May, 2007. Public and Governmental Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs and folklore. Popular song, he visited AFC. Ex Officio Members James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress AMERIC A N F O L K L I F E C ENTER Cristián Samper, Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to “preserve and present Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment American folklife” through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference for the Arts service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training. The Center incorporates the Archive Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment of Folk Culture, which was established in the Music Division of the Library of Congress in 1928 and for the Humanities is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the Bill Ivey, President, American Folklore Society world. Philip V. Bohlman, President, Society for Folklife Center News publishes articles on the programs and activities of the American Folklife Ethnomusicology Center, as well as other articles on traditional expressive culture. It is available free of charge from the Peggy A. Bulger, Director, American Folklife Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C. Center 20540–4610. Judith McCulloh (Emerita), Illinois Folklife Center News does not publish announcements from other institutions or reviews of books from publishers other than the Library of Congress . Readers who would like to comment on Center activities or newsletter articles may address their remarks to the editor. Folklife Center News ONLINE INFORMATION RESOURCES: The American Folklife Center’s Website provides VOLUME 29, NOS. 1 AND 2 WINTER/SPRING 2007 full texts of many AFC publications, information about AFC projects, multimedia presentations of selected collections, links to Web resources on ethnography, and announcements of upcoming Stephen D. Winick, Editor events. The address for the home page ishttp://www.loc.gov/folklife/ . An index of the site’s David A. Taylor, Editorial Advisor contents is available at http://www.loc.gov/folklife/az-index.html. Michaela McNichol, Art Director The Website for The Veterans History Project provides an overview of the project, an online “kit” for participants recording oral histories of veterans, and a brief presentation of some examples of video- Cover: Highland piper Robert Watt performed in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library and audio-recordings of veterans’ stories. The address is http://www.loc.gov/vets. of Congress on May 23, 2007 as part of the The Folkline Information Service is a cooperative announcement program of the American Folklore Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, Society and the American Folklife Center. It is available only on the American Folklore Society’s sponsored by AFC, The Department of Culture, server: www.afsnet.org. The service provides timely information on the field of folklore and folklife, Arts and Leisure of Northern Ireland, and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Photo: including training and professional opportunities, and news items of national interest. Stephen Winick, AFC. A mer I ca N F ol K L I fe C E N ter S taff Administration: Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist Specialist,Coordinator Jeffrey Lofton, Public Affairs Specialist Peggy A. Bulger, Director Stephen D. Winick, Writer-Editor Stephanie A. Hall, Automation Rachel Mears, Archivist Gene Berry, Assistant to the Director Specialist Monica Mohindra, Program Officer Doris Craig, Administrative Assistant Processing and Cataloging: Todd Harvey, Folklife Specialist Sarah Rouse, Senior Program Officer Catherine Hiebert Kerst, Archivist Michael Taft, Head, Archive Ann Hoog, Folklife Specialist Timothy Schurtter, Program Officer Maggie Kruesi, Cataloger David A. Taylor, Head, Research and Tom Wiener, Historian Judy Ng, Processing Technician Programs Audio Engineering: Valda Morris, Processing Technician Jonathan Gold, Audio Technician Research and Programs: Marcia Segal, Processing Archivist American Folklife Center: Theadocia Austen, Public Events Digital Conversion: Tel: 202 707–5510 Nora Yeh, Archivist, Coordinator John Barton, Specialist Coordinator Fax: 202 707–2076 Mary Bucknum, Folklife Specialist Reference: Veterans History Project: E-mail: [email protected] Debra Murphy, Special Assistant Jennifer A. Cutting, Folklife Specialist Bob Patrick, Director www.loc.gov/folklife Judith A. Gray, Folklife Peter T. Bartis, Senior Program Officer Left: Charles Seeger and family, 1940. L-r: Charles, Peggy, Ruth Crawford, Barbara, and Mike Seeger. Courtesy Peggy Seeger. Below: Charles Seeger family’s New Year greeting card photo, 1949. Clockwise from top: Charles, Ruth Crawford, Peggy, Barbara, Mike, and Penny Seeger. AFC Ruth Crawford Seeger correspondence file. Bottom: Mountain Music Bluegrass Style was recorded, edited and annotated by Mike Seeger, and originally released by Folkways Records in 1959. It influenced the first generation of musicians to call the genre “Bluegrass,” including Neil Rosenberg. This image is from the 1991 CD reissue on Smithsonian/Folkways Records. Family Values Seeger Style A Seeger Family Tribute at the Library of Congress. By Neil V. Rosenberg Editor’s Note: In this issue, we are honored to publish the following article by Neil V. Rosenberg. Rosenberg is a distinguished scholar who taught at the Department of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1968 until his retirement in 2004. A Fellow of the American Folklore Society and 2001 recipient of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada’s Marius Barbeau Award, he has published extensively on Canadian and American folk music topics, and is a leading authority on Bluegrass music. He has also been a musician most of his life—even performing on several occasions as a member of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys—and today performs with the bluegrass band Crooked Stovepipe. On March 16, 2007, Rosenberg gave the keynote address at AFC’s Seeger Family Tribute. That address is reproduced here, largely as he delivered it. t’s a daunting task for me to speak first right, came to prominence in a 1992 speech by today about the Seegers. This room is Vice-President Quayle. To me these two words Ifilled with experts, including a bunch of do not automatically evoke a single, partisan vi- them. But I know that I’m not the only one sion; they suggest many possibilities. Today, we here who, in looking back on life’s musical celebrate a family whose prominent members’ journey, has realized that the Seegers were actions, statements, art and lives convey impor- an important part of it. Looking for a way tant values. One Seeger value is a willingness of speaking about what the Seeger family to confront politicized social issues. So my title means to me, I thought of “family values.” begins by rescuing “family values” from solitary I’ve been living in Newfoundland for nearly confinement, then combining it with “Seeger” four decades, so it took me a little while to discover that this and “Style” as used in the titles of Mike’s first two Folkways al- phrase, now part of the rhetorical baggage of the American far bums, documentary works that changed my life. AMERIC A N F O L K L I F E C E N T E R N EWS 3 SEEGERS a Christmas concert at Carnegie Hall. By then we teens were involved in the local East Bay folk music scene, with its clubs and radio shows. At our parties we sang “Kum By A” and “Wimow- heh” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,” and in record stores we followed Pete’s advice to listen to Huddie Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie. The Weavers’ new Carnegie Hall album became a musical icon in our self-consciously “bohemian” teen-age scene. We all went to hear them in per- son when, on tour for the first time, they came to San Francisco. Years later, I learned that Dave Guard, founding member of the Kingston Trio, and Joan Baez, still quite young and attending with her family, were also in that hall. Words and music: it’s hard put into words fully why and how Pete’s music was so appealing to us teenagers. We had wide-ranging tastes. At the time I was buying records by Fats Domino, Charlie Mingus, and Arturo Toscanini. Pete’s voice and banjo touched us through broad pop and classical music sensibilities. At his concerts Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, ca. 1940. This image was likely taken in Okla- we would sometimes become impatient with his homa City during a trip Pete and Woody made from Washington, D.C. to Pampa, talk--we wanted more music. His musical mes- Oklahoma. Courtesy of Guy Logsdon. sages drew us to new places. He introduced us to other exotic instruments besides the banjo. Meeting The Seegers He taught us to sing with each other in harmony and counter- I must have heard Pete Seeger’s voice first back in 1950 point.
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