Urban Pioneers interview with Peter Netka, July 26, 2007 (Cassette Recording Side B)

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Peter Netka, July 26, 2007 (Cassette Recording Side B)
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Peter Netka
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9684
Creator Netka, Peter; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-07-26
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage July 26, 2007
Description Recording of Part 2 of an interview by Polly Stewart with Peter Netka, 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 Netka, Peter--Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Peter Netka; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Talking about skill levels among musicians/inter-group dynamics and bluegrass vs. folk/women in bluegrass; 2. Talking about seeing a Grammy at Tut Taylor's house; 3. Talking about wife, Molly, and her support of Peter Netka's music; 4. Talking about three tenor voices in the Salt City Bluegrass Boys/receiving a forty-year-old recording of a Salt City Bluegrass Boys rehearsal; 5. Peter Netka talking about his place in the Utah Urban Folk Music revival; 6. Peter Netka talking about his real name (Walter) and nickname, Pete/talking about his childhood; 7. Talking about involvement in bluegrass and folk music, being in the right place at the right time/talking about jamming; 8. Talking about innovation, tradition, and fusion in bluegrass music; 9. Talking about love for bluegrass music; 10. Talking about generational gaps among musicians/friendship with Tom Carter; 11. Talking about Steve Lawson; 12. Talking about Fred Rinehart (Hart); 13. Talking about musicians having other artistic interests/talking about McRay Magleby, looking at his art work in Peter Netka's home; 14. Talking about Utah Urban Pioneers Concert; 15. Mentioning that Tut Taylor was responsible for getting Utah Phillips' song, "Rock Salt and Nails" to Flat and Scruggs; 16. Talking about songwriting and traditional song repertoire in bluegrass music; 17. Talking comparatively high quality of contemporary bluegrass musicians, compared to self-taught cohort of earlier days
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 45 minutes, 41 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/s65x2twq
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716420
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65x2twq
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