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Lighter Available: Legman Autobiography (6) RE: Available: Legman Autobiography 19 Aug 17

Randolph collected bawdy songs, right along with collecting polite ones (and often from the same informants), between 1920 and 1954.

The publisher of "Ozark Folk Songs" absolutely refused to publish any bawdy material.

At some point, I think in the '50s, Randolph turned the bawdy material over to Legman, as the only scholar with the ability to edit the material intelligently and the nerve to publish it.

It still took almost forty years.

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