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Art Rosenbaum (born 1938 in Ogdensburg, New York)[1] is a painter, banjo player, and retired art professor who has spent over half a century documenting folk music. His music has earned him a Grammy Award, and his scholarly work on the banjo is cited as key in the banjo revival of the post-World War II period.
Biography
[edit]Rosenbaum enrolled at Columbia University in 1956 and received his degree in art in 1960, and an MFA in painting in 1961;[2] he then went to Paris on a Fulbright grant until 1965.[3] During his college time he was active in the local folk scene, crossing paths with Bob Dylan and forming a group called The Columbia Chamb'ry Players; Rosenbaum played banjo and fiddle, and sang.[2] He started teaching at the University of Georgia in 1976,[4] retiring in 2006.[2]
In 1964, Smithsonian Folkways released Rosenbaum and Pat Dunford's album of traditional music from Indiana (Rosenbaum's home state), Fine Times in Our House.[5] This album followed the recording Rosenbaum and Ed Kahn made of Pete Steele, previously recorded by Alan Lomax; it includes "Last Payday at Coal Creek", "perhaps Steele's best-known song".[5]
His Art of Field Recording received high praise in Utne Reader; the two boxes of each four CDs have extensive notes and covers painted by Rosenbaum himself, and black-and-white photographs by his wife, Margo Newmark Rosenbaum.[6] His collecting, which is focused "solely on old music" has earned him comparisons with Alan Lomax and Harry Smith, both of whom have influenced Rosenbaum.[6]
In addition to the album liner notes, Rosenbaum's writings about music include a 1998 book about ring shouts, Shout Because You’re Free.[7] Writer John Bealle has credited Rosenbaum's 1968 book, Old-Time Mountain Banjo, as being "surely a key transitional text" in banjo revival, which presented "a meticulous comparative study of style based on the playing of traditional performers whose playing Rosenbaum had studied".[8]
In terms of making music, Rosenbaum is a "traditional-style banjoist" who has collaborated with the likes of Jean Ritchie (on her 1962 album of country songs from the 1920s and 30s, Precious Memories).[9]
His 2007 album, Volume 1 of Art of Field Recording: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum won a Grammy award for best historical album.[10]
Judith McWillie said of Rosenbaum's work, "His paintings, teaching, and field recording/musicianship are all of a piece, all one outpouring of a talented individual."[3]
Discography
[edit]- Rosenbaum, Art (2007). Art of field recording. : Volume I fifty years of traditional American music. Atlanta: Dust-to-Digital. OCLC 182942608.
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Bibliography
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[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Harper 6.
- ^ a b c Roshkow, Matt. "Art Rosenbaum '60". Columbia College Today. Columbia University. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Faculty profile: Art Rosenbaum" (PDF). The Franklin Chronicle. University of Georgia. Fall 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ Fussell, Fred C. "A Conversation with Art Rosenbaum". Georgia Music Magazine. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ a b Carlin 166.
- ^ a b Goetzman, Keith (September–October 2009). "Art Rosenbaum's Art of Field Recording: An American song catcher". Utne Reader. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Fox, Margalit (April 1, 2013). "Lawrence McKiver, a Singer in Long Tradition, Dies at 97". New York Times. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ Beale 27-28.
- ^ Carlin 188.
- ^ "Georgian spent 50 years documenting traditional music". Access Atlanta. 30 November 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
Works cited
[edit]- Bealle, John (2005). Old-Time Music and Dance: Community and Folk Revival. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Carlin, Richard (2010). Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062043788. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- Harper, Dennis (2006). Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum:October 21, 2006 - January 7, 2007. Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. ISBN 0-915977-60-5.
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