Arts & Culture
Songs from the Margins: Rediscovering the Accidental Historians of American Folk Music
Long before the academy turned its ear toward working-class America, a scattered constellation of regional folk and roots musicians pressed their lives into wax — capturing floods, labor disputes, harvest seasons, and heartbreak with an authenticity no formal record could replicate. Archivists and cultural institutions are now racing to recover these fragile recordings before silence claims them permanently. Silversides examines the musicians history nearly forgot and the scholars determined to