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Film, Video Conversation with Si Kahn, Part 1.

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Title

  • Conversation with Si Kahn, Part 1.

Summary

  • Si Kahn talks about his life and music with folklorist Stephen Winick. Kahn has worked for more than 45 years as a musician as well as a civil rights, labor and community organizer. (Part 1 of 3)

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2020-11-16.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Homegrown from Home. 18
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Si Kahn, Stephen Winick.
  • -  Recorded on 2020-11-16.
  • -  Si Kahn began his organizing career in 1965 in Arkansas with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the student wing of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. During the War on Poverty, he served first as a VISTA Volunteer and later as deputy director of an eight-county community action agency in rural Georgia where he also coached the first racially integrated Little League team in that part of the state. As a musician, Kahn has performed internationally at concerts and festivals. His musical body of work includes 15 albums of original songs for adults and children, plus a collection of traditional labor, civil rights and women's songs recorded with Pete Seeger and Jane Sapp. His songs of family, community, work and freedom have been recorded by more than 100 artists and translated into half a dozen languages, including French, Welsh, Hebrew, Swedish, Drents (a Dutch dialect), and Plattdeutsch ("Low German"). Such songs as "Aragon Mill" (aka "Belfast Mill," "Oregon Mill," "Douglas Mill" and "Weave and Spin"), "Gone Gonna Rise Again," "Go To Work On Monday" and "Rubber Blubber Whale" have become a part of the oral tradition and are sung around the world in folk clubs, in living rooms, at rallies and on picket lines. Kahn first came to Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress as a teenager and has continued to do research in the archives -- now part of the American Folklife Center -- ever since.
  • -  Stephen Winick is a folklife specialist in the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697367

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Si Kahn, Part 1. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-16, 2020. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697367/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2020) Conversation with Si Kahn, Part 1. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-16. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697367/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Si Kahn, Part 1. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-16, 2020. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697367/>.