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Thread #80416   Message #1792920
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Jul-06 - 02:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Harry Smith's Anthology Music Book Site?
Subject: Index:Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music
For the record, this book is titled Anthology of American Folk Music, edited by Josh Dunson and Ethel Raim, published by Oak Publications in 1973.
Here's the table of contents:



So, this isn't all the tracks in the 6-CD collection, but it's a good number of them. I wish there were a site that provided all the lyrics to all the songs in the anthology, but I haven't found it yet.


Once again, the download link is:
http://towerofbabel.com/sections/music/troubadours/anthology/anthology.zip

I have to say that the setup is a bit screwey. It's a large ZIP file. When you open it, you'll find one folder (directory), and you have to go through about six layers of folders to get to the files, which are JPG scans of all the pages of the book. what I did was download the ZIP file into a separate folder on my computer. Then, with Windows XP, I right-clicked on the ZIP file and selected "extract all." Then I goet all those layers of folders. Then I opened all the way to the JPG files, selected all of them, and right-clicked and chose "cut." Then I went back to the original folder with the ZIP file, right-clicked and chose "paste." Then all those layers of folders were empty, and I delete them. Clicking on a JPG file (in Windows XP) opens Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, which is a great utility for viewing and printing graphics files.

It's tempting to transcribe the whole thing here, with MIDI files. Anybody want to join me in the project?

-Joe Offer-


  • National Public Radio page & recording on the Anthology
  • Harry Smith Archives
  • Smithsonian Folkways page on the Anthology
  • Volume 4 of the Anthology