tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post7127877402744955614..comments2023-07-24T05:21:36.080-05:00Comments on Confluence City: Ancestral tribute to Bascom Lamar LunsfordPoetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post-18778291129078408352011-06-01T08:35:45.768-05:002011-06-01T08:35:45.768-05:00Do you know any of his current day relatives?
L. L...Do you know any of his current day relatives?<br />L. LunsfordAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post-55852359080276625142009-02-08T16:52:00.000-06:002009-02-08T16:52:00.000-06:00I forgot to add that it is ludicrous to assert tha...I forgot to add that it is ludicrous to assert that Bascom didn't go North because he didn't want to be around black folks. He did go North, though the North was just as segregated then as the South was. Also, right there in the Southern mountains, Bascom actively sought out black folks to learn their songs and stories, just as he sought out white folks and the Cherokee. Most of us are still catching up with him in his eclectic and inclusive approach to American culture.Poetry Scoreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post-78118161561191716512009-02-08T16:35:00.000-06:002009-02-08T16:35:00.000-06:00Thank you for the prompt reply! It's reassuring to...Thank you for the prompt reply! It's reassuring to know that that book is very subjective. Until I read their overview of Lunsford, I had thought the book was quite objective. But reading through your posts and research it is clear Lunsford was not the "overtly racist" character the book portrayed him to be. I haven't done my thorough research on him myself.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again, and good luck on your Lunsford journeys (or is that with an "ie"? Just doesn't feel right)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post-67606695721006792752009-02-08T13:50:00.000-06:002009-02-08T13:50:00.000-06:00I'd have to read the piece, this isn't enough to g...I'd have to read the piece, this isn't enough to go on, and it doesn't make me want to read more, to be frank. <BR/><BR/>Bascom traveled north repeatedly (he recorded his memory collection in D.C. and NYC, for example) and he repeatedly welcomed (invariably Northern and often Jewish) song collectors into the mountains and his own home. So that part doesn't check out at all. <BR/><BR/>He did collect folklore that included offensive language of various kinds, but I am aware of no public record of his using this language in his personal vocabulary or any time he wasn't performing a piece that had this language in it - and, as I say in this post, he was decades ahead of his time in respecting diversity in folklore and recording it faithfully and fighting for the respectful performance of it.<BR/><BR/>Now, he was patriotic and didn't cotton to Communists. He called them "pinkos" rather than "reds," according to his daughter. He applied this term to more than one member of the Seeger folklore dynasty. I suspect their testimony colors the account you have read. The Seegers are not great sources on Bascom, unless they are commenting on a banjo tuning.Poetry Scoreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post-32470442963954935682009-02-08T13:02:00.000-06:002009-02-08T13:02:00.000-06:00I read in a book, the accompaniment to the Antholo...I read in a book, the accompaniment to the Anthology of American Folk Music edited by Josh Dunson and Ethel Raim, that Lunsford didn't want to travel to the North so he didn't have to face [sic] "reds", Jews, or black people, and was actually rather overtly racist. Is this verified, or just a subjective opinion in the book?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post-47159692068431750492009-01-20T01:04:00.000-06:002009-01-20T01:04:00.000-06:00"To be released this year," reads the blogpost. Yo..."To be released this year," reads the blogpost. Yo.Poetry Scoreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4259650071875106920.post-67475379343248495272009-01-19T21:38:00.000-06:002009-01-19T21:38:00.000-06:00So what is the status of the BLL project?So what is the status of the BLL project?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com