Urban Pioneers interview with Rosalie Sorrels, March 4, 2005 (Cassette Tape 1 Side B)

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Rosalie Sorrels, March 4, 2005 (Cassette Tape 1 Side B)
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Rosalie Sorrels
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9695
Creator Sorrels, Rosalie; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2005-03-04
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage American Folk Music Revival 1950-1970
Description Recording of an interview (part 2) in Idaho City, Idaho, by Polly Stewart with Rosalie Sorrels, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Transcript by Polly Stewart, copy-edited 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, Rosalie--Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Rosalie Sorrels; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Friendship with Pete Seeger and the Weavers; 2. Talking about communism-general attitudes in the 1950s and family participation; 3. Pondering the socio-political/economic aspects of the folk music revival and folk song collecting; 4. Talking about Rosalie Sorrels' impresarioed concerts and events; 5. Talking about Rosalie Sorrels's scrapbook; 6. Talking about friendship with Hunter Thompson; 7. Talking about diverse interests in performing arts genres/developing a "speak truth to power" consciousness in her approach to folk music; 8. Talking about folk song publications, Sing Out!, Little Sandy Review, and Broadside; 9. Talking about friendship with Bruce Phillips/talking about being a storyteller who uses music to tell stories (as opposed to being a "folk singer")
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
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/s66m3rps
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716474
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66m3rps
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