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Renowned Folk Singer Odetta Dies at 77

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2008-12-04 09:22:49 by WMCNewsDept. in World Music Central
Odetta, one of the most respected in American folk music died Tuesday, December 2, 2008, of heart disease. Odetta was born on New Year's Eve in 1930 as the United States of America entered the second year of the Great Depression, segregation and disfranchisement remained in place, and the droughts of the Dust Bowl forced poor families off the...
 
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Folk Singer, Civil Rights Activist Odetta Dead at 77

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2008-12-03 20:37:00 by Bob Marovich in The Black Gospel Blog
Odetta (Holmes) Gordon, known to the world as simply "Odetta," died of a heart attack in New York yesterday, December 2. She was 77 years old Odetta sang folk songs, ballads, blues, Civil Rights anthems, spirituals, showtunes, gospel...really just about any style of music was fodder for her straightforward delivery. Her booming contralto could...
 
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Folk Legend Odetta Dies At 77

2008-12-04 09:00:15 by admin in Rock Opinions
 
Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. Odetta died Tuesday (Dec. 2) of heart disease at New Yorks Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager
 
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Subgenre Coverfolk: Freak Folk (Devandra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Vetiver)

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2008-05-28 09:20:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
In a MySpace age of hypenated multiple genre designation, the term folk is increasingly used by artists and promoters as a call to a specific approach to musicmaking usually characterized by acoustic instrumentation, and/or a sort of lo-fi confessional sensibility If we were cynics, we might suspect that the term is used primarily not to...
 
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WOMEX 2008 Educational Institution Award Goes to Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki

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2008-07-31 19:19:02 by WMCNewsDept. in World Music Central
Berlin, Germany - WOMEX announced today the winner of the WOMEX Award for Professional Excellence: the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. " Without the Folk department of the Sibelius Academy, there would be nothing like the folk scene there is in Finland. It's amazing the way it has allowed so many flowers to...
 
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Single Song Sunday: Wayfaring Stranger (On White Spirituals and The Religious Origins of Folk)

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2008-09-07 01:45:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
It is absolutely trivial to note that certain songs crop up over and over again in the folk collector's travels; after all, as our blog subtitle reminds us, when we talk about folk, we're talking about a form that by its very nature treats older songs and tunes as part of the communication which makes us community, available to all who lay claim...
 
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Covered in Folk: Pete Seeger (On Folk as an Engine of Social Change)

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2008-09-24 21:37:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
Though I believe that folk, most especially in the way it functions as a channel of engagement and public discourse, is by definition an agency of cultural change, I have been reluctant to use this blog as a forum for advocating explicit change of any one type. Perpetuating the relevance of folk as an agenda in and of itself, it seems to me,...
 
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Covered in Folk: Paul Simon (From Bleeker Street to Indiefolk)

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2008-01-02 06:24:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
The ninth post in our very popular Covered In Folk series addresses the solo output of Paul Simon. This is unusual -- with the exception of our ongoing Beatles series ( part 1 , part 2 ), previous posts have covered the total output of a given artist; see, for example, posts on the songs of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground and Tim and Neil...
 
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New Artists, Old Songs: Celtic Folk Edition (Heidi Talbot, Grada, and Karan Casey)

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2008-06-04 09:48:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
I've fallen far behind on my new music listening; the stack of great music out there grows faster than I can get to them, sadly. While I winnow down the pile, I've spent most of the week listening to some wonderful, relatively new folk releases from Compass Records , and let me tell you, I'm impressed The folks at indie roots label Compass, who...
 
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