Urban Pioneers interview with Barre Toelken, August 3, 2007. (Cassette Recording Side B)

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Barre Toelken, August 3, 2007. (Cassette Recording Side B)
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Barre Toelken (2007)
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9660
Creator Toelken, Barre, 1935-; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-08-03
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage August 3, 2007
Description Recording of an interview by Polly Stewart with Barre Toelken, 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 Toelken, Barre, 1935- --Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Barre Toelken; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Talking about identity as folk singer, folklorist, and medievalist; 2. Choosing dissertation topic; 3. Broadening definition of folk song through contact with Salt Lake musicians (Phillips and Sorrels); 4. Talking about original songs and melodies/"Moose Turd Pie"; 5. Talking about childhood song repertoire/family history and song repertoire; 6. Talking about folk singing days/working with Bruce (Utah) Phillips; 7. Talking about the three record albums that he made; 8. Talking about the rise and fall in popularity of folk music/personal journeys in folk music; 9. Barre Toelken talks about topical songs in his repertoire; 10. Story about stopping singing when in high school; 11. Talking about family traditions of tattoos and folk songs, in past and future generations; 12. Background/story about his birth; 13. Coming to Utah to attend forestry school and finding folklore at Utah State University; 14. Navigating interracial marriage at a time when it was not allowed everywhere; 15. Graduate school at the University of Oregon/friendship with Kester Swendson at the University of Oregon; 16. Learning to play guitar; 17. Talking about hands after his stroke
Abstract Folklore scholars Polly Stewart and Barre Toelken talk about their shared experiences during the Utah Folk Music Revival in the 1960s; discuss their careers as folklorist and as musicians
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 46 minutes, 7 seconds
Language eng
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Relation Side B of the Cassette Recording
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/s6tf0g98
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716477
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tf0g98
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