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Eccentric Harry Smith occupies an almost mythical function in 20th century American music, being a curator and, in his very own fashion, promoter of essential folk forms. The three-volume Anthology of American Folk Music that he put together for Folkways in the first ’50s was instrumental in revealing much root …

b. Harry Everett Smith, 29 Might 1923, Portland, Oregon, USA, d. 27 November 1991, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Smith acquired a lifelong curiosity about the occult and arcane, learning to be a Thelemite, and students of shamanic rituals from the Lummi people and of the Enochian program. In 1986 he …

A former pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, composer and musicologist Dika Newlin afterwards reinvented herself being a septuagenarian punk rock and roll performance artist. Blessed in Portland, OR, on November 22, 1923, Newlin was called honoring an Amazon cited within the poems of Sappho. Her educational parents shortly relocated the family …