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Archie Green (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This item is two interviews with Archie Green conducted by David A. Taylor of the American Folklife Center. Archie Green discusses his family history, his parents' immigration from the Ukraine to Canada and then to Los Angeles; his education at the University of California, Berkeley; his work as a surveyor for the CCC; his work as a shipwright, and his brief tenure as a labor union official during World War II. He enlisted in the Navy, was assigned to a ship repair unit, served in a drydock in San Diego and in Albany, California, then in the eastern Philippines and China, coming home in 1946. He discusses folk music and folksongs, the folk music revival, Young Democrats, the working classes, advocacy for vernacular culture, and his activities lobbying for the passage of the Congressional act that established the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. This collection consists of 4 sound cassettes : analog, stereo. Recorded Dec. 15-16, 2003 at Archie Green's home in San Francisco, Calif. Biography/History note: Archie Green was a folklorist and activist, born June 29, 1917 in Winnipeg, Ontario; died March 22, 2009 in California. He received the Library of Congress Living Legend Award on August 16, 2007
Green, Archie, 1917-2009 (FA 105)
Get PDFFinding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 105. Folklore and the Public Sector”: Lecture, 1977, by Archie Green discussing the relationship of folklore to the national government
Archie Ammons Book Review
Get PDFIs it possible for an American poet to be influenced heavily by an encounter with another poet/painter? Throughout the pages of the book, “When I Go Back To My Home Country”: A Remembrance of Archie Ammons, author Emily Herring Wilson recounts the highlights of her 30-year friendship and association with Archie Ammons. On several occasions in the book, the author includes her own literary works to illustrate the enormous impact that her friendship with poet/painter Archie Ammons had on her own literary development. To help capture the reader’s interest, the author also includes 65 photographs, 3 color reproductions of Archie Ammons watercolor paintings, and samples of his various poems
Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place
No full textThis article argues for a reappraisal of Archie Hind\u27s landmark Glasgow novel The Dear Green Place (1966), which represents the conflation and combination of long histories of class formation with the grind of everyday labours, and a provocation about the possibilities, limitations, and contradictions of working-class artistry in twentieth-century Scotland
Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place
Get PDFThis article argues for a reappraisal of Archie Hind's landmark Glasgow novel The Dear Green Place (1966), which represents the conflation and combination of long histories of class formation with the grind of everyday labours, and a provocation about the possibilities, limitations, and contradictions of working-class artistry in twentieth-century Scotland
Ranguald and Annie Johnson Carlsen family
No full textTop left: Curney, Ernest, Minnie, Rudolf, Archie. Middle girls: Rangna and Martha; baby Ervin. Courtesy of Louise Green
Chris McGregor/Archie Shepp.
No full textPhotocopied article from the French magazine Jazz Magazine about Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath sharing the stage with Archie Shepp at a concert at La Courneuve, France, the 18th of March 1989. The author of this article criticizes the length of the concert, which was, according to him, too long (2:30 without any break)
Archie Green (1917-2009): An American Always Said to Have Been 'Called to Labor'
No full textIn the spring of 2009 there died Archie Green, the hero of the American working classes, and of all persons ever displaced, as well as of the poor and landless of this world, as of all those who have laboured long to make possible the wealth of others. He was a shipwright, union activist, labour historian, folklorist, academic, and author, a progressive optimist, and the father of the theory and practice of a new way of looking at everyday activity and experience - 'laborlore'. This is a body of knowledge that can make possible occupational involvement, solidarity between 'classes' and, in effect, a proud and engaged citizenry, with a cheerful involvement wherever varied bodies of workers come together to perform a task
Archie Moore: Les Eaux d'Amoore
No full textFirst ShowingIn this elegant and unusual exhibition, Queensland-based artist Archie Moore has devised a highly original way to explore themes of Aboriginal dispossession and the colonial past.An artist of deceptively gentle method, with a deeply acute, personal intent, Moore has worked with a master perfumer to create a selection of beautifully presented ‘perfume portraits’ for Les Eaux d’Amoore. These olfactory offerings venture well beyond the repertoire of traditional perfumes; they evoke the artist’s recollection of the diverse smells of his childhood in South East Queensland. For example ‘Presage’ is the aroma of graphite pencils and paper from his first day of school in an inhospitable, white-dominated society; ‘Sapphistication’, a combination of Brut 33 and rum is the smell of his sophisticated aunties
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