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Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

FromArtists Among Us


Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

FromArtists Among Us

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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Sep 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith we spoke to Greil Marcus, acclaimed music author, journalist, and critic, about the reverberations felt around the world after the 1952 release of Harry Smith's highly influential multivolume Anthology of American Folk Music. "It was a sensibility—this set that Harry Smith created—that was passed on to people. Where it said to them, 'There's more in this music. There's more in this country than you ever imagined, so seek and ye shall find.'"More about the exhibition: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/harry-smith 
Released:
Sep 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (13)

The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Artists Among Us, a podcast about American art and culture. We tell stories revealing the complexities and contradictions that have shaped life in the United States today. We consider the American artist David Hammons and his new sculpture, Day's End (2014–21). This is a monumental, permanent public installation that pays tribute to a long-destroyed 1975 artwork of the same name by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Anchored on the banks of Manhattan’s West Side and stretching into the Hudson River, Hammons’s Day’s End is sited next to the Museum and occupies the precise location where Matta-Clark’s work once stood. We follow the evolution of the Manhattan coastline through the history of the Meatpacking District, and celebrate the communities that have shaped the neighborhood where the Whitney now stands. This podcast was produced by Sound Made Public in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art. whitney.org/podcast