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A discussion on the difficulty of obtaining and preserving the nation?s rural music traditions, particularly jazz and country blues of the 1920s and ?30s. Participants include Michael Fremer, editor of analogplanet.com; Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild Obsessive Hunt for the World?s Rarest 78rpm Records; Nathan Salsburg, curator at the Alan Lomax Archive; and Sam Stephenson, author of numerous books, including The Jazz Loft Project. Moderated by Gary Giddins, director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center. (This event took place in the Graduate Center?s Elebash Recital Hall on October 1, 2014.)
