Page 26 RAIN September/October 1984 ACCESS: Progressive Music songfinder column. Sing Out! has been around for about three decades, and maintains an archive on folk music. —TK SFS are to organize political musicians to share their music and expand their horizons, and to promote the use of music in the progressive community. — TK Sing Out!: The Folk Song Magazine, quarterly, $ll/year individuals, $15/year institutions, from: Sing Out! Box 1071 106 North 4th Street People's Music Network/Songs of Freedom and Struggle 158 Cliff Street Norwich, CT 06360 203/887-3018 Easton, PA 18042 New Song Library PO Box 295 Northampton, MA 01601 This is the place to go if you want current events, folk record and book reviews, teach-ins on the rhythm bones or the hammer dulcimer, interviews with performers and songwriters, and more. Each issue of Sing Out! contains the words and music for 15 or more folk songs, a column by Pete Seeger, and a West Coast Freedom Song Network 424 North Street Oakland, CA 94609 415/654-0799 Founded in 1974, the New Song Library is an archives set up to store, collect, and make accessible progressive music. Members can contribute songs so they can be made available to other people or use the archives to find songs about a particular issue. —TK Both these organizations are networks of progressive musicians. The aims of PMN/ ACCESS: Cultural Traditions When traditional cultures come in contact with industrial society, culture is often the first casualty. Here are two approaches toward preserving that which should not be lost. —TK western art movements is also examined. Although somewhat academic in tone, the articles lack jargon, and they are factual, insightful, and highly informative. —SM "Ethnic Art—Works in Progress," Cultural Survival Quarterly, volume 6, number 4 (Fall 1982), $2 from: Cultural Survival 11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Cultural Survival Quarterly publicizes the problems and issues facing indigenous people everywhere as a result of contact with western industrial society. This special issue focuses on the aesthetic as well as economic impact that more developed societies, and indeed the process of development itself, have on the art and culture of traditional societies. The issue offers a balanced view of the costs and benefits to native peoples of tourism, of museums and other collectors of folk art, and of the international handicraft-export market. There are also articles on Ami (Lapp) art, wildlife regulations and native Alaskan artists, and the refugee artists in Thailand. The influence of "primitive" art in modern Alive in Portland, by the Southeast Asian Foxfire Project, 1982,133 pp., info from: Michael Sweeney, Project Coordinator Portland Public Schools Lincoln High School 1600 SW Salmon Portland, OR 97205 Several thousand Southeast Asian refugees have settled in the Portland area. This book was, incredibly, intended to help Southeast Asians learn English better as well as to research and preserve some of the cultural traits of the peoples represented. (Incredibly—because this book reads like a series of oral histories, not like an English exercise.) Many Southeast Asian peoples grant art and celebration a place in their daily lives, and the pressures of adapting to American society are weakening that cultural aspect. In this interesting book, some of those traditions are documented. (The book is out of print, but you can look at copies in the Portland schools. We'll review the new publication of the Portland Foxfire Project in the next RAIN.) — TK Hmong embroidery: poj kab laug sab lub tsev, spider design (FROM: Alive in Portland)
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