Months ago, I promised to blog about the rebuild of my website, drdosido.net. The rebuild went live last summer, but my blogging went dead. Part of it was that WordPress and I…
Tag: being a folklorist
The National Barn Dance
Happy 90th birthday. (I missed it by a day.) It was on April 19, 1924, a Saturday, that the National Barn Dance began it’s 36-year run on radio station WLS in Chicago. …
DrDosido and Mr. Seeger
Like any respectable folkie I sang along with Pete Seeger in concert several times. All that took, of course, was a ticket. The somber news of his passing, and the many well-deserved…
The Search for German Old-Time Music
More accurately, today’s topic is the old-time music played by musicians from German communities around Hoagland, Indiana. The question of how much of the music played for barn dances and house dances…