In 1952, Harry Smith compiled and released hisAnthology Of American Folk Music, made up of 84 American folk, blues, and country music songs. Now, Marisa Anderson is announcing The Anthology Of UnAmerican Folk Music, a project inspired by Smith's private record collection, which she spent 3 years studying.
The Anthology Of UnAmerican Folk Music concentrates on music from places that the US has been in conflict with since 1970, including Southeast Asia, the USSR, and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world. Each piece on the album stands as a dialogue between Anderson and the original source recording. Anderson’s contribution to this dialogue ultimately invites the listener to join her in asking: “Who are the people we’ve been told in our lifetimes are “unamerican?” What have we all lost or been denied access to in the fallout from that label?”
The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music is as much a celebration of music from beyond borders as it is an examination of those borders, real and imagined, that restrict movement and cut people off from one another.
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