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Bruce Conforth on the real life of Robert Johnson, the real hell of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what it was like coming of age inside Izzy’s Young’s Folklore Center as the young Bobby Zimmerman hammered out songs on the typewriter in the back room… on episode 44 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | July 6, 2016

When I first started talking with ethnomusicologist Bruce Conforth about the possibility of his being on the show, I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d be talking about. He didn’t seem terribly enthusiastic about the prospect of discussing his time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, where he was the founding curator, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, Alan Lomax, bare feet, biographies, Blues, Bob Dylan, Bruce Conforth, Cap'n You're So Mean, Cindy Hudson, Cleveland, Cohen brothers, corruption, curation, Dave Van Ronk, Dylan Beckwith, estival of Found Films from the Vault, Etan Patz, ethnomusicology, field recordings, folk, found film, Frank Uhle, Frank Uhler, Gaslight Cafe, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Greenwich Village, Ike Zimmerman, Indiana University, Inside Llewyn Davis, Ivan Kral, Izzy's Young, Izzy's Young's Folklore Center, Jann Wenner, Jazz, Jim Cherewick, John Lomax, kidnapping, Lawrence Gellert, Lead Belly, Mississippi John Hurt, Moody Blues, Nobody Knows My Name, Pete Larson, power trips, record industry, Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Rolling Stone, Soft Milk, Son House, Steve Miller, The Mayor of MacDougal Street | 12 Comments

Talking about the blues with Bruce Conforth, discovering found film with Frank Uhle, and allowing Jim Cherewick just be himself …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 15, 2016

I don’t know how we do it, but, for a little AM radio show in Ypsilanti, we continue to book incredible shows. Saturday evening, starting at 6:00, we’ll be joined in the studio by musicologist Bruce Conforth. Perhaps best known as the founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Dr. […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged 16mm film, Askwith Media Library, Blues Heritage Foundation, Bruce Conforth, Festival of Found Films from the Vault, Film, film festivals, found film, Frank Uhle, instructional films, Jim Cherewick, Lawrence Gellert, My Snowman's Burning Down, Robert Johnson Blues Foundation, roots music, the blues | 4 Comments

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