An intro to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
By Administrator, eMusic Contributor
Moses Asch, the son of a Yiddish novelist, began releasing "people's music," as he dubbed it, in 1948, when he founded Folkways Records. Under the Folkways name, Asch documented all facets of sound — be it human, animal, junkyard or office — eventually releasing more than 2,000 albums. In the '50s and '60s, Folkways became synonymous with the folk music that Asch helped popularize, perhaps in part because its aim was so similar to his own:… more »