| Title |
Urban Pioneers interview with Barre Toelken, August 3, 2007. (Cassette Recording Side A) |
| 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=9659 |
| Creator |
Toelken, Barre, 1935- ; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013 |
| Contributor |
Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus |
| Publisher |
University of Utah |
| Date |
2007-08-03 |
| Date Digital |
2013-06-21 |
| Temporal Coverage |
March 4, 2005 |
| 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 the term, "urban pioneers," and its connotations for folk song repertoires and folklore research/Talking about personal orientation in folk music, coming originally from "old school"/example of "Blue Mountain" (Monticello, Utah) song; 2. Talking about the concepts inherent in "urban folk revival"; 3. Talking about Hal Bentley and Barre Toelken's early days in Utah; 4. Talking about Caroline Kichura Perry (?) and accounts of the Mountain Meadows Massacre; 5. Talking about relationship with Wayland Hand/entrée into professional folklore; 6. Story about Mountain Meadows Massacre survivor; 7. Talking about the repertoire of folk songs Barre Toelken learned in his own family/story about the song "rolling home"; 8. Collecting folk songs in the Ozarks/talking about variation in folk song versions; 9. Growing up in Quabbin Valley, Massachusetts/learning folk songs during childhood; 10. Spending time in Swannanoa, North Carolina/collecting songs in the Ozarks/relationship with the Spivey family/story about traditional singer Caroline Spivey and the song, "Rose Connolly; 11. Talking about the Heisenberg Principle in folklore study, particularly on the impact of collectors on folk song repertoire; 12. Talking about interest in collecting Child ballads/evolving focus in folklore scholarship from "what should be" to "what's there" |
| 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 |
47 minutes, 48 seconds |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
Side A 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/s6n87vnp |
| Setname |
uu_utfolklore |
| ID |
716370 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6n87vnp |
