| Title |
Urban Pioneers interview with Barre Toelken, August 3, 2007. (Cassette Recording Side B) |
| Alternative Title |
Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Barre Toelken (2007) |
| Links to Media |
https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9660 |
| Creator |
Toelken, Barre, 1935-; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013 |
| Contributor |
Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2007-08-03 |
| Date Digital |
2013-06-21 |
| Temporal Coverage |
August 3, 2007 |
| Description |
Recording of an interview by Polly Stewart with Barre Toelken, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Jennifer Bott [now Bateman] served as sound engineer. Transcript by Laura R. Marcus [now Green]. One of the interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project, 2004-2011 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Subject |
Toelken, Barre, 1935- --Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah |
| Keywords |
Barre Toelken; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews |
| Table of Contents |
1. Talking about identity as folk singer, folklorist, and medievalist; 2. Choosing dissertation topic; 3. Broadening definition of folk song through contact with Salt Lake musicians (Phillips and Sorrels); 4. Talking about original songs and melodies/"Moose Turd Pie"; 5. Talking about childhood song repertoire/family history and song repertoire; 6. Talking about folk singing days/working with Bruce (Utah) Phillips; 7. Talking about the three record albums that he made; 8. Talking about the rise and fall in popularity of folk music/personal journeys in folk music; 9. Barre Toelken talks about topical songs in his repertoire; 10. Story about stopping singing when in high school; 11. Talking about family traditions of tattoos and folk songs, in past and future generations; 12. Background/story about his birth; 13. Coming to Utah to attend forestry school and finding folklore at Utah State University; 14. Navigating interracial marriage at a time when it was not allowed everywhere; 15. Graduate school at the University of Oregon/friendship with Kester Swendson at the University of Oregon; 16. Learning to play guitar; 17. Talking about hands after his stroke |
| Abstract |
Folklore scholars Polly Stewart and Barre Toelken talk about their shared experiences during the Utah Folk Music Revival in the 1960s; discuss their careers as folklorist and as musicians |
| Type |
Sound |
| Genre |
Sound recordings |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
46 minutes, 7 seconds |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
Side B of the Cassette Recording |
| Is Part of |
The 30 interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6tf0g98 |
| Setname |
uu_utfolklore |
| ID |
716477 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tf0g98 |
