Urban Pioneers interview with Hal Cannon, March 18, 2007

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Hal Cannon, March 18, 2007
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Hal Cannon
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9669
Creator Cannon, Hal, 1948- ; Bateman, Jennifer; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-03-18
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage March 18, 2007
Description Recording of an interview by Jennifer Bott and Polly Stewart with Hal Cannon, 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 Cannon, Hal, 1948- --Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Hal Cannon; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Hal Cannon background-education and early interest in folk music; 2. Learning to play music/playing in Stormy Mountain Boys, playing out; 3. Talking about repertoire in the Stormy Mountain Boys; 4. Passion for music; 5. Talking about studies at the University of Utah and Rhode Island School of Design/continuing to play music, Uncle Lumpy; 6. Talking about influence of national performers/reflecting on regional scenes; 7. Talking about newgrass; 8. Talking about the folk music social set in Utah in the 1960s/tappig into the national bluegrass scene; Talking about the band, Uncle Lumpy (and the Friends of Calvin Coolidge); 9. Talking about the folk music zeitgeist in the 1960s; 10. Talking about Tut Taylor as instrument dealer and Mormon Bishop, his dealings in the area/story of Hal Cannon's Martin D-45 guitar; 11. Talking about the Deseret String Band/Bertram Levy connection/national old-time music scene in the 1970s; 12. Talking about the revivalist conundrum; 13. Deseret String band history/talking about being a folklorist; 14. Keeping up with music/current musical projects
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 33 minutes, 20 seconds
Language eng
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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/s6gq7gn2
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716348
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gq7gn2
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