Video

Anthology of American Folk Song

Steve Reinke

2004, 29:00 minutes, colour, english

TAPECODE 345.129

Named after Harry Smith's seminal "Anthology of American Folk Music,” Anthology of American Folk Song re-inscribes the optimistically paranoid mythological landscape of contemporary America.

"They had been unable to believe in the existence of terrorists. After all, none of them had discovered any repressed memories of terrorist abuse. They had focused instead on the more immediate and real threat of serial killers, alien abductors and Satanic ritual abusers."

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Critical Writing

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by Hal Niedzviecki. Now, Apr. 7, 2005, v. 24, no. 32.
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by Andrew James Paterson. POV, Winter 2005, no. 56.
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