Official account for the archives of Harry Everett Smith - filmmaker, musicologist, mystic, & one of the least understood figures in postwar American culture
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New post about recent Harry Smith biography and exhibition @ccva_harvard @whitneymuseum on Dada Drummer Almanach @HS_Archives dadadrummer.substack.com/p/h…
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5/5 Paramount Records is not (yet) in DAHR so those sides aren't included. Nothing more needs to be said about Harry Smith's AAFM that hasn't been said better elsewhere, but seek out @dusttodigital's Harry Smith B-Sides which has the flip sides of all the 78s in the Anthology.
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4/5 Anthology of American Folk Music volume three: Songs
adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.p…
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3/5 Anthology of American Folk Music volume two: Social music
adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.p…
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2/5 Contents of individual volumes follows.
Anthology of American Folk Music volume one: Ballads
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1/5 Harry Smith’s 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music has influenced generations of fans who have taken musical and cultural inspiration from his curation of 1920s vernacular American music.
Discographic data is now online in DAHR:
adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.p… @HS_Archives
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@HS_Archives - Harry Smith - Celebration continues - on the Allen Ginsberg Project allenginsberg.org/2023/11/m-…
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Harry Everett Smith
Died on this day November 27, 1991,
New York City
Filmmaker, folklorist, painter, collector, alchemist, polymath…
- Photo : Allen Ginsberg
@HS_Archives
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The Brooklyn Folk Festival is just one month away!
The 15th annual festival will feature...
🎙️ A Folkways Records 75th anniversary celebration
🎞️ A centennial tribute to Harry Smith
🪕 40+ bands, workshops, film screenings, dances, and more
Tickets: brooklynfolkfest.com
ALT A green square graphic for the Folkways Records 75th anniversary lineup at the Brooklyn Folk Festival.
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@HS_Archives - Cosmic Scholar - The Life and Times of Harry Smith - on The Allen Ginsberg Project allenginsberg.org/2023/08/t-…
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Great photo of Peter Stampfel! I started looking at some of the other David Gahr photographic offerings on eBay. There's this one of Harry Smith @HS_Archives beside a banged-up antique car!
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"Before the Anthology of American Folk Music came out, Szwed notes, people thought folk music was earnest and often mealy stuff like Burl Ives and the Weavers."
That's right. It let people know that, actually, folk music is insane. Can't wait to read this book, out next week!
“Smith added a great deal to the national stock of peculiarity. He was the worm at the bottom of American culture’s mezcal bottle. You slam the glass down, because his experience still makes you feel alive.”
nytimes.com/2023/08/14/books…
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@HS_Archives - - Friday's Weekly Round-Up - Ginsberg and The Bible, Harry Smith biography, Ed Sanders' birthday, Anselm Hollo and more - allenginsberg.org/2023/08/f-…
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In 1948, Marian Distler and Moses Asch founded Folkways Records. The label set out to create an encyclopedia chronicling the world of sound.
This year, join us as we celebrate the 75th anniversary with live events, vinyl reissues, and more: s.si.edu/42nrHpO
#Folkways75
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I’m nearly done with Paola Ingloria’s book. He was so much more than people think. Relentlessly creative and original. Changed art. – at Brooklyn, NY
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The first solo exhibition of Smith's work will open at the @whitneymuseum this fall on October 4. It will include a unique listening environment where visitors can explore the Anthology along with interviews from Smith himself. whitney.org/exhibitions/harr…
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Today marks the centennial of the birth of Harry Smith, compiler of one of the most influential releases in the history of recorded sound: The Anthology of American Folk Music.
Learn more: s.si.edu/43cyC6o
Photo by John Palmer, ca. 1970. Courtesy of Harry Smith Archives.
ALT Black and white photo of Harry Smith.
ALT Image of the Anthology liner notes.
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The story of Harry Smith's life and art is legendary but who knew about his typewriter works!? Thanks @TeaKaGee for directing me here.
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Great article on Jordan Belson and the room he made art in for most of his life.
Highly recommend reading this beautiful essay penned by the wonderful Raymond Foye for @TheBrooklynRail about Harry’s close friend/sometimes rival Jordan Belson.
brooklynrail.org/2023/03/art…