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LOGGER'S SHEET
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LOGGER: LORI TAYLOR
REEL NUMBER: 619     STAGE: AFS
DATE: 7/4/1988       PRESENTOR: CHARLIE CAMP
GROUP NAME: STRANGERS IN YOUR TOWN :
REGION/STYLE: FOLKLORISTS AND THE PEOPLE THEY STUDY
PERFORMER(S)            INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
LOUIS BASHELL (SLOVENIAN ACCORDIANIST- MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN)
RICHARD MARCH (STATE FOLKLORIST- MADISON, WISCONSIN)
JOHNNY TUCKER (GOSPEL SINGER- NORTH CAROLINA) WASH, DC.
HORACE ROYER (ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST- AMHERST, MASS)

CONTENTS
1. INTRO-
HB- GOSPEL MUSIC IS A PERFORMERS' ART NOT A COMPOSERS' ART 
2. 
CC- WHAT KIND OF QUESTIONS DO YOU ASK? HOW DO YOU 
3. ESTABLISH RAPPORT? 
HB- NEEDS TO BE CAREFUL THAT THEY DON'T SHOW OFF AND
4. SHOW HIM OTHER THAN HOW THEY USUALLY ARE.
THE QUESTIONS HE ASKS OF GOSPEL SINGERS...
5. JT- HIS 2ND YEAR AT FESTIVAL.
6. FIRST CONTACT WAS WITH MIKE LICHT- HE CAME TO MEETINGS, INTERVIEWED THEM, INTRODUCED THEM TO THE SMITHSONIAN
7. INVOLVEMENT HERE GETTING THEM EXPOSURE. 
8. LB- RECALLS FIRST TIME HE MET RICHARD. INTERVIEW, RICHARD WROTE STORY IN 1984. 1987 LOUIS WON NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP AWARD. RICHARD WAS THE FIRST (SECOND)
9. RM- THE COLD CALL- DIDN'T WORK THAT WAY EARLIER.
10. WANTED TO GET TO KNOW PEOPLE BEFORE-
WHEN POSSIBILITY OF NOMINATION CAME UP, LOOKED FOR A 
11. MUSICIAN WHO WOULD BE A UNANIMOUS CHOICE.
PREPARED HIMSELF- WAS ALREADY FAMILIAR.
12. GETTING TO KNOW PEOPLE BEFORE YOU TURN ON THE TAPE RECORDER.
13. CC- POSSIBILITY OF BECOMING A VICTIM OF HOSPITALITY .
HB- TRIED TO STAY IN A HOTEL- EASIER TO [[??]]
GOSPEL PEOPLE FEEL IT NECESSARY TO FEED YOU-
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE DOESN'T LIKE IT.
CC- COMMERCIAL PEOPLE (MEDIA) DOING THE SAME KIND OF SEARCHING.
JT- GOSPEL ARTISTS TRY TO AVOID THE COMMERCIAL-
NEED A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION BEFORE TALKING.