ASEEES Roundtable: Russian/Soviet and American folk music collection

[William Nickell]

We are looking for two participants to join us for a roundtable on US and Russian/Soviet folkloristics and folk music, parallels and influences, as described below:

The study and collection of folklore and folk music in the United States in the twentieth century involved frequent glances toward Russia and then the Soviet Union.  A generation of popularizers of American folk music were Communist party members or sympathizers, and some had personal experience in Russia or the Soviet Union.  Contributors to this roundtable will consider these intersections, as well as the divergent paths of folk music collection and production in the US and Soviet Union.  Comments might focus on individual travelers and bridge figures (Moe Asch, Paul Robeson), ethnographic practices, recording devices, scholarship and theorizations, or how folk music reached popular audiences.

Please respond off list to Gabriella Safran ( gsafran at stanford.edu ) or Bill Nickell ( wnickell at uchicago.edu )




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