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Harry Everett Smith - Artist, musician and shaman. Harry was a living conduit of folk music. He delivered brilliant and unrecognized works of folk music created in the 1920's and 30's to the musicians of the 50's and 60's. He was an amazing anthologist who made sure the roots of folk music were not forgotten. He ran with the beat poets, lived an alternative and brilliant life full of art, movie making and was utterly devoted to teaching others the interconnectness of everything. American Folk Music, Harry Smith, Weird History, Blue Song, People Inspiration, Chelsea Hotel, Joan Baez, Movie Making, Contemporary Music

American Folk Music

People Inspiration

Contemporary Music

Harry Smith: musician and shaman

Harry Everett Smith - Artist, musician and shaman. Harry was a living conduit of folk music. He delivered brilliant and unrecognized works of folk music created in the 1920's and 30's to the musicians of the 50's and 60's. He was an amazing anthologist who made sure the roots of folk music were not forgotten. He ran with the beat poets, lived an alternative and brilliant life full of art, movie making and was utterly devoted to teaching others the interconnectness of everything.

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Harry Everett Smith Maggot Brain, Seminole Patchwork, American Folk Music, Jazz Painting, Brain Drawing, Harry Smith, Gilded Cage, Dizzy Gillespie, Avant Garde Artists

Seminole Patchwork

American Folk Music

Dizzy Gillespie

Avant Garde Artists

Harry Smith: American Magus

Artist, alchemical filmmaker, musical archeologist and avant garde shaman, Harry Smith’s obsessive interests made him an influential, yet not widely known, figure of 20th century Beat culture and beyond. If Smith was only responsible for preserving the folk and blues musical traditions of early America in his Anthology of American Folk Music set from 1952, we would have him to thank for providing a way forward for a young Bob Dylan and the whole of the 60s/70s folk scene. But Smith was far…

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45 Year Old Man

Hotel Chelsea Nyc

Experimental Animation

Chelsea Manhattan

harry smith: the avant-garde in the american vernacular

"Harry Smith with his 'brain drawings'" San Francisco 1950 (photo Hy Hirsh) Say what? Who dat? Who be Harry Smith? Well, he is one of those...

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Harry Smith

Harry Smith

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American Folk Music, Painting Composition, Harry Smith, Manhattan Hotels, Chelsea Hotel, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Sound Art, Film Archive

American Folk Music

Painting Composition

Manhattan Hotels

Beat Generation

A Harry Smith Seance

Communing with (or at least capturing) the spirit of the American Magus.

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The Summer Sampler Radio Hour: Harry Smith | RNZ Harry Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Folk Music, Cool Cats, The 1950s, Filmmaking, The Live, Chelsea, Breaking News

The Summer Sampler Radio Hour: Harry Smith

In the 1950s, an eccentric collector called Harry Smith fuelled a folk music revival with a definitive anthology of American folk recordings. Now the reissue label Dust-To-Digital have turned those records over, and found a few controversial items lurking among the B-sides. Nick Bollinger takes a listen.

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Harry Smith: String Figures at Cabinet, New York Brooklyn Map, American Folk Music, Harry Smith, Cats Cradle, What What, White Heat, String Theory, Air And Space Museum, Human Interaction

American Folk Music

Air And Space Museum

Human Interaction

Harry Smith: String Figures - Announcements - e-flux

Harry Smith: String Figures at Cabinet, New York

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning - but does it float Avant Garde Film, Harry Smith, A Clockwork Orange, In My Arms, Rick Y Morty, Tattoo Flash, Heaven On Earth, Stop Motion, Yearbook

Avant Garde Film

A Clockwork Orange

Heaven On Earth

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning — but does it float

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We're releasing Jenn Champion's full album cover of Weezer's landmark debut on vinyl. Each limited edition, exclusive record comes with a digital download. Sweater Song, Harry Smith, Cover Album, Power Pop, Buddy Holly, Tom Petty, Weezer, Blue Vinyl, Synth Pop

Jenn Champion Reimagines Weezer's The Blue Album - Turntable Kitchen

We're releasing Jenn Champion's full album cover of Weezer's landmark debut on vinyl. Each limited edition, exclusive record comes with a digital download.

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Dr Wilder Penfield on March 28, 1967. Harry Smith, Pin It, Toast, Brain, I Hope, Historical Figures, Science, Share It, Celebrities

Historical Figures

Today Is Pioneering Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield's Birthday

Penfield revolutionized epilepsy treatment and our understanding of the brain

TIME

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