Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art
Sources:
https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A
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For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium
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Margaret continues her talk with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison
Sources:
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/
https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys
https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly
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Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison.
Sources:
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/
https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys
https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly
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Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors
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