Harry Smith's Anthology of American folk music : America changed through music /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-259) and index.Introduction : America changed through music / Ross Hair and Thomas Ruys Smith -- "Spun in a wheel of vertigo" : Harry Smith and the magic of history / Geoff Ward -- Harry Smith's Anthology of American folk music : the critical heritage / Rory Crutchfield -- Interlude 1 : "This unknown body of Americana" : Alan Lomax's List of American Folk Songs on commercial records and the Anthology of American folk music / Nathan Salsburg -- Harry Smith, the Anthology, and the artist as collector / Justin Parks -- Collage, politics, and narrative approaches to Harry Smith's Anthology of American folk music / Dan Blim -- Harry Smith : collecting thought-forms and programming the aerial computer / R. Bruce Elder -- "Fatal flower garden" : the execution of a Child ballad / Robin Purves -- Smith's Amnesia theater : "Moonshiner's dance" in Minnesota / Kurt Gegenhuber -- Dead presidents : "Charles Guiteau," " White house blues," and the histories of Smithville / Thomas Ruys Smith -- Interlude 2 : How weird is folk? / Sharron Kraus -- "Volk roots and hiart leaves" : John Fahey and the Anthology of American folk music -- Recycling the South : contemporary literature and the Anthology of American folk music / Phil Langran -- The "other lives" of Harry Smith's Anthology of American folk music / Paola Ferrero.