Urban Pioneers interview with Jim Sorrels, July 31, 2007 (Cassette Recording Side B)

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Jim Sorrels, July 31, 2007 (Cassette Recording Side B)
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Jim Sorrels
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9673
Creator Sorrels, Jim; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-07-31
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage July 31, 2007
Description Recording of an interview by Polly Stewart with Jim Sorrels, 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 Sorrels, Jim--Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Jim Sorrels; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Talking about work in photography; 2. Jim Sorrels talking about the guitars he has owned; 3. Talking about musical repertoire and performing activities during the folk era; 4. Writing protest songs about current events during the folk era; 5. Remembering the Intermountain Folk Music Council-activities and a booklet of songs published by the IFMC which included some of Jim Sorrels's songs; 6. Remembering Dean Bentley as a supporter of the Intermountain Folk Music Council; 7. Talking about Rosalie Sorrels/talking about the Utah Urban Pioneers Concert and documentation of it; 8. Talking about continued interest in folk music after split with Rosalie Sorrels; 9. Talking about current health, bout with cancer; 10. Talking about studio and photography projects; 11. Reflecting on the Salt Lake City folk music revival/talking about the impact and experience of teaching guitar at the University for fifteen years; 12. Keeping up with the current music scene in Salt Lake City; 13. Talking about inspiration for protest songs that he has written/reflecting on former Salt Lake City Police Chief Cleon Skousen and his activities
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 38 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/s6183rfn
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716429
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6183rfn
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