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LOGGER'S SHEET 163 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.