Episode 102: Fed as Folk
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4.5 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
We're joined by historian and author Aaron Leonard to discuss his book The Folk Singers and the Bureau, which details the rise of the Communist-adjacent folk scene in America alongside the CPUSA, and the intense (and underreported) repression that followed.
Link to buy the book:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/651913/the-folk-singers-and-the-bureau-by-aaron-leonard/
Companion playlist by Aaron:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHCUjL6Jr73FNc_ak3MyOV_V-6Khic2u4
Songs: "Root Hog and Die" -- Woody Guthrie
"You've Got to Go Down and Join the Union" -- Pete Seeger
"Song of Choice" -- Peggy Seeger
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let me ask you something. |
| 0:01.4 | How do you, like, how do you perceive me, Liz? |
| 0:05.5 | How much time do you have? |
| 0:07.8 | Well, uh, I mean, technically all the time in the world. |
| 0:11.2 | This is my job. |
| 0:12.2 | What do you mean? |
| 0:12.9 | How do I perceive you? |
| 0:14.6 | Like, when I talk, what do you think? |
| 0:18.4 | Uh, I mean, I feel like this is a loaded question. |
| 0:21.8 | Whoa. I didn't think this is a loaded question. Whoa. |
| 0:22.9 | I didn't think it was a loaded question, but now that that sort of changed the tenor of things. |
| 0:28.7 | I just mean, I don't, what are you getting at? |
| 0:31.5 | What do you mean, what, that's too open-ended. |
| 0:33.5 | When I talk, what do you think? |
| 0:35.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:36.5 | Do you think I'm, well, this is, God, I do not. |
| 0:39.9 | Just ask me. |
| 0:41.2 | Do you think I'm stupid? |
| 0:43.7 | No. |
| 0:45.1 | Okay, well, I've got really bad news for you. |
| 0:49.7 | I have 80 IQ. |
| 0:53.0 | Is that good or not? I never know. I don't know what IQ numbers are. So to me, 80 is a super high number, right? Hmm. Like if someone told you that at 80 of something, you would say that's a long. What is the scale? It's like incomprehensible. It's like Fahrenheit to Celsius. IQ should just be zero to 100. Well, I was actually, I actually, I agree with that. |
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