Joe F, You may be overgeneralizing from the anecdote. Apparently Moe Asch and Folkways did function quite differently from the industry at large in many ways. A terrific documentary history of Folkways and Moe Asch is available here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/explore_folkways/folkways_collection.aspx It includes a great deal of wonderful music and includes an episode on the Village Scene of the 60s. This is not to say that Folkways was all enlightened. But Asch seems to have been as much a character in his own right as was DVR. (sorry for the blank post above).
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