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

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Peter Netka, July 26, 2007 (Cassette Recording Side A)
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=9683
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 1 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. Netka's basic background information; 2. Polly Stewart explains Utah Urban Pioneers Oral History Project/Peter; 3. Talking about musical background; 4. Getting interested in bluegrass music/learning to play guitar and dobro/becoming part of the Utah urban folk music scene; 5. Becoming member of the Utah Valley Boys, then the Salt City Bluegrass Boys; 6. Time in the National Guard/friendship with and influence of Tut Taylor/road trip to the South with Tom Carter; 7. Life's path/getting back to music/joining the Lab Dogs and Holdin' Out; 8. On being an older (and old-time) musician playing with younger people/road trip to Nashville with Tom Carter, seeing Flat and Scruggs taping a TV show; 9. Seeking out the bluegrass masters/road trip to L.A. with McRay Magleby; 10. Talking about the future of bluegrass; 11. Wednesday bluegrass jam session in Salt Lake City; 12. Talking about bluegrass as inclusive and democratic musical tradition; 13. Talking about laborious road to learning to play music through listening; 14. Coming back to music after a long absence/being a dobro player; 15. Talking about social relations among musicians and bands during the Utah Urban Folk Music Revival
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 46 minutes, 2 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/s6126bj3
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716460
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6126bj3
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