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Article Excerpt
Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott. By Michael Ann Williams. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [xiv, 221 p. ISBN-10 0-252-03102-4; ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03102-1. $60.] Bibliographic references, index.
Staging Tradition tells two stories of two very different and little-known figures in traditional American music. Both came from Kentucky, and neither were musicians but they left a lasting legacy in the field of traditional American music. John Lair created Renfro Valley, and Sarah Gertrude Knott established the National Folk Festival. Respectively, they devoted their lives to these institutions, which survive today still promoting traditional American music, although using somewhat different approaches.
John Lair began his music career in the army during World War I, where he became involved in the production staff of an army musical. But it was his work in Chicago for radio station WLS where Lair began his career as a talent scout and artist's manager, finding talent on his home turf in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. The most famous of these finds was probably Clyde "Red" Foley, but also included, Lily Mae Ledford, Myrtle Cooper (aka Lulu Belle), and Linda Parker. Lair began working with WLS part-time while continuing to work for...
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