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Thread #157642 Message #3722172
Posted By: Joe Offer
08-Jul-15 - 08:48 PM
Thread Name: Folksongs of Another America-Dust to Digital
Subject: RE: Folksongs of Another America-Dust to Digital
Thomas Stern says: A comment about ethnic music in America, which is seems not a high priority among mudcater or the folk community in general.
"Ethnic" music was very important when I was growing up in Detroit and Milwaukee in the 1950s and 1960s, Thomas. I grew up knowing a few German, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Spanish, and French songs. Even Armenian and Arab music had a place.