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Archive for the Charles Lafayette Todd Category (5 Posts)

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The Candidate’s a Dodger: An Electoral Folksong from Oral Tradition to Aaron Copland

Posted by: Stephen Winick

Posted in: Aaron Copland, Alan Lomax, Charles Lafayette Todd, Charles Seeger, Dodger, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, John Lomax, Pete Seeger, Robert Sonkin, Sidney Robertson Cowell, U.S. Congress, Woody Guthrie

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The Folklore and Folksong of Trains in America, Part Two

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: African Americans, Alan Lomax, Charles Lafayette Todd, Folksong, George Korson, John Lomax, Legends, Robert Sonkin, Robert Winslow Gordon, Sam Eskin, Sidney Robertson Cowell

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The Folklore and Folksong of Trains in America, Part One

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: Alan Lomax, Austin Fife, Charles Lafayette Todd, Charles Lafayette Todd and Robert Sonkin, Cowboys, Folksong, John Lomax, Legends, Robert Sonkin, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Zora Neale Hurston

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Poetry Afield

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: African Americans, Charles Lafayette Todd, Cowboys, Mary Hufford, Medieval Folklore, Poetry, Robert Sonkin, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Stetson Kennedy

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Some Songs for Mother’s Day

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Posted in: Charles Lafayette Todd, Folksong, Holidays, John Lomax, Robert Sonkin, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Sidney Robertson Cowell