Topic: How John Cohen Found Folk Music

[jostber]

A recent article in The Jewish Daily on John Cohen:

http://www.forward.com/articles/133534/#ixzz17OR9lyrs

[Mr.OMuck]

John was my professor (of Folklore) at SUNY Purchase in the early seventies. What can you say about someone who hung with Holcomb. Kerouac & DeKooning? Good article.

[Mr.OMuck]

Btw the newspaper is called the Jewish Daily FORWARD (pronounced Fawrvitz by many of its readers) and is known for among other things publishing the long running advice column written by future Nobel laureate for literature Isaac Bashevis Singer. It was/is left leaning and was a lifeline for many newly arrived Jewish immigrants in the early years of the twentieth century. It was only published in Yiddish until twenty years ago or so.