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The old weird America
Shapiro, Bruce | August 25, 1997 issue

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This article discusses the book "Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes," by Greil Marcus and the musical recording "Anthology of American Folk Music," edited by Harry Smith. The book by Marcus is ostensibly a reflection on Dylan's private recording sessions in the exhausted aftermath of those events with the quintet later known as The Band, ranging over terrain from reworked Child ballads to originals like "I Shall Be Released." But at the book's heart is a different album: the Anthology of Amen can Folk Music, a multidisc compilation of pre-Depression "hillbilly" and "race" records assembled by one Harry Smith for Folkways fifteen years earlier, a touchstone of the early-sixties folk scene.

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INVISIBLE Republic (Book); ANTHOLOGY of American Folk Music (Music); MARCUS, Greil; SMITH, Harry; DYLAN, Bob, 1941-; FOLK music; SOUND -- Recording & reproducing
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