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Thread #78667   Message #1417706
Posted By: Joe Offer
22-Feb-05 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector
Subject: RE: 1.30PM Arthur Miller/Song Collector
I'd like to know more about Arthur Miller and his interest in folk music. Google didn't find anything for me except a brief mention of this radio program (programme). Is it available online? Can somebody post a synopsis of what you heard, or point us to more information?

What was the comment about people from Washington being Jewish, Leadfingers? I have to say that wen I worked in Missisisippi and Alabama as a federal election observer enforcing the Voting Rights Act, I was supervised by a number of young lawyers from DC, and I got the impression an unusually large number of them were Jewish. I made several voting rights trips in the 1980's, and I did not that there seemed to be more friendly interaction between whites and blacks in the rural South than there was at the time in the urban North. I almost always came across a few signs of raw bigotry, but more often I found a nice, friendly interaction.

But anyhow, can somebody tell us something about Arthur Miller and folk music?

-Joe Offer-