Urban Pioneers interview with Polly Stewart, December 15, 2007

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Polly Stewart, December 15, 2007
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Polly Stewart
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9690
Creator Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013; Cannon, Hal, 1948-
Contributor Brennan, Patrick
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-12-15
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage December 15, 2007
Description Recording of an interview by Hal Cannon of Polly Stewart, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Patrick Brennan of KUER served as recording engineer. 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 Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013--Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Hal Cannon; Polly Stewart; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. The genesis of the Utah folk music scene/Dean Harold Bentley's (University of Utah) contribution to Utah folk music/the beginnings of Rosalie Sorrels's career in folk music; 2. Distinctiveness of the Utah folk music scene, as compared with the national picture/impact of national scene on Utah folk music phenomenon/talking about "authentic" versus commercial folk music/class and socio-political tones of the folk music scene; 3. Talking about the Utah Urban Pioneers Concert-impetus of organizing and how the musicians were selected; 4. Runs through her association with each of the groups or performers participating in the Utah Urban Pioneer Concert, starting with Uncle Lumpy; 5. Talking about involvement with Polly and the Valley Boys; 6. Talking about the Rosewood Trio; 7. Talking about the Stormy Mountain Boys; 8. Talking about Barre Toelken; 9. Talking about Bruce Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels in the American folk music scene; 10. Talking about Rosalie Sorrels-her career, her personal style; 11. Talking about Bruce Phillips, his performing style; 12. Talking about preparation for and success of the Utah Urban Pioneer Concert; 13. Talking about Heather Dorrell; 14. Talking about the success and emotional tenor of the Utah Urban Pioneers Concert
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 34 minutes, 44 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/s6qz2vwf
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716408
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qz2vwf
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