The “melting pot” was supposed to turn everybody it could white It took a modern ...

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The “melting pot” was supposed to turn everybody it could white

It took a modern crew of grad students to translate all those recordings, some collected by Alan Lomax, but the others by two women we somehow hear less about 🤔 Sidney Robertson and Helene Stratman-Thomas

They share the real picture of what a lot of American folk (ie country music) really sounded like back then

#FolkMusic #Immigration #CountryMusic

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