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Logger's Sheet page 1 of 2 1988-086 Logger: Skye Morrison Reel Number: 7. Stage: AFS Date: 6/23/1988 Presentor: Timothy Lloyd Group name: "Crossing the Line: Folk Artist- Folklorist" Region/Style: [[this line blank]] Performer (s) Instrument/Occupation -Howard Sacks: (sociologist, Gambier Ohio) [[note in left margin - guitar]] -Alan Jabbour: (folklorist, Washington, D.C.) [[note in left margin - fiddle]] -Stephen Wade: (musician, Washington D.C.) [[note in left margin - banjo]] Timothy Lloyd: Presentor (folklorist, Columbus Ohio). Contents: 1. Introduction: Participants and title "Crossing the Line" 2. Instrumental Tunes: Two Tunes "Versions of Liza Jane" TL: "The line: revival musicians what are their place?" 3. SW: Comments: asks A.J. to tell him. 4. AJ: Where he learned violin instead of cello: classical. Folk music interest developed in Graduate School 5. Answer: Ambiguous - A folk artist & a scholar 6. HS: Dotted relationship the [[the line?]] Folk boom of 60's 7. music as an a vocation - sociologist - community & music can interrelate as well as with neighbors. 8. experience softens the line 9. SW: Introduces Teacher's banjo : wrote a story and was able to then play the banjo after his teacher died 10. Plays tune: " [[ left blank ]] " and talks the story. 11. TL: Bimusicality: a notion from ethnomusicology. Why does this go in and out of fashion? 12. AJ: 20 years ago anxiety about professionalism. 13. debate about revivalism misses the point of how someone learns and what it means to be one TL: Can you speak to collaboration? AJ: Howard and his musical friends as example. HS: Tells story of how he met musicians in Ohio and how these people got involved with festivals. TL: First encounter with music as significant What was teaching/ learning situation?