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Episode Details: Ballad of a Mountain Man
Ballad of a Mountain Man
Series: American Experience
Season: Season 2
Episode Number: 11
Air Date:
Duration: 55 min
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a pioneer folklorist who in the 1920s began a campaign to preserve mountain music and dance. He dignified what was known as "hillbilly music." Knocking on doors of local banjo pickers and fiddlers, listening to their songs, he amassed an extraordinary repertoire, recorded for the Library of Congress and started the first folk music festival.
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