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LOGGER: Lori Taylor
REEL NUMBER: 1        STAGE: AF5
DATE: 6/30/1988       PRESENTOR: Nick Spritzer
GROUP NAME: Folklore and Media: Access, Use and Control
REGION/STYLE:
PERFORMER(S)          INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Richard March (folklorist-Madison, Wisconsin) State Folklorist, accordianist.
Louis Bashell (Slovenia accordianist-Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Nat'l Heritage Fellowship Winner
Joe WIlson (folklorist-Washington, DC)
Nick Spitzer (folklorist-Washington, DC)
Sign Language Interpreter-
CONTENTS
1. Testing Accordians, drawing a crowd.  "Silk Umbrella Polka"
Intros-
2. Getting your own culture into the media
3. JW -mountaineers.
most of his encounters w/TV and movies frustrating, dwell on stereotypes.
4. LB- records&radio a long time ago. From 13-14 stations w/polka to 1 today
RM - attempt to gain mass audience for polka post WWII.
5. Wisconsin accordianists discovering other polka traditions (Tex-Mex)
Charlie Camp
6. Dewey Balfa - experience in The Big[[?]] and other Cajun films.
7. JW - on Deliverance
8. RM - people want representation in media, but tend to be disappointed at gap between media portrayal and their reality
9. Barry Ancelet - in using Lomax recordings (1930s/40s) to make modern record
10. When the folk gain access to the media, they once again assume role of storyteller in their own culture revalidate regional cultures
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12. RM- 
13.
LB accordian tune Slovenian waltz. "Little Shepherd"