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LOGGER'S SHEET 100 LOGGER: Mark Miller REEL NUMBER: 4 STAGE: AFS DATE: 6/25/88 PRESENTOR: Tim Lloyd GROUP NAME: Crossing the Line: Fold Artist - Folklorist REGION/STYLE: PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION Ray Brassieur - Missouri Cultural Heritage Mike Light - DC Commission of Humanities Dillon Bustin - Massachusetts Cultural Heritage CONTENTS 1. R.B. - Value of being a musician in studying a folk tradition, and being a part of the culture you're studying. 2.D.B. - Describes how he began collecting folk material from 3. his past. 4. M.L. - Tells of differences as performer/folkloristand importance 5. of keeping the two separate. 6. RB - Definitions of "community" as in community service. 7. Differences between community in Louisiana (his home) and in Missouri (where he lives now). 8. DB - talks of copying tapes from archives in Bloomington, Ind. and not being allowed to perform while in school studying folklore, 9. 10. Joe Hickerson of Library of Congress on performance by scholars 11. Question, Nick Spitzer, Smithsonian - Why are English/Anglo & Black are music forms picked up by revialists? 12. DB - Story about Jewish friend studing and playing folk music RB - Why Afro/blues music has become popular & imitated by others