
burkhard bilger reports in this week's issue of the new yorker on the search for and recording of the artless singing of american folk song, or old time music, in the southeast. bilger follows art rosenbaum, a professor of art at the university of georgia and curator of art of field recording volume 1 , and lance ledbetter, founder of dust-to-digital records in atlanta, as they travel to various outposts and record folks singing songs learned in the oral tradition, handed down through generations of families & [...]