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The Look of the Listen is a website that explores the breadth and diversity of Folkways cover art. This virtual presentation grows out of a gallery exhibition, Seeing the World of Sound: The Cover Art of Folkways Records, at the University of Alberta... more
Ronald Clyne designed approximately 500 covers for Folkways Records....
In these interview excerpts, founders Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber talk album cover art....
Opportunities for teaching and learning about how music is aligned with visual art....
Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten performs “Freight Train.” Cotten (1895-1987) built her musical legacy on a firm foundation of late-19th- and early-20th-century African American instrumental traditions and fine musicianship. The Smithsonian Folkways album Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (a reissue of her first 1958 LP) features a cover photograph of Cotten by David Gahr. related albums | more videos
