Delight in What It Is to Be American: Sidney Robertson on the Road, 1935-1937
In her travels as a "government song woman" during the 1930s, folk-music collector Sidney Robertson recorded a wide range of musical expression that would help to shape the folk music revival in the decades that followed. Kluge Fellow Sheryl Kaskowitz discusses how beyond this important musical contribution, Robertson's letters and reports from these trips paint a vivid picture of life in Depression-era America and shed light on the government's use of music in the service of uniting the people during the New Deal. Speaker Biography: Sheryl Kaskowitz is a Rhode Island based ethnomusicologist who studied at the Library of Congress under a John Kluge Fellowship. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7736
