Word: ethnomusicologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tanjore Viswanathan, an internationally known Indian flutist, and ethnomusicologist, told an audience of approximately 50 people that South Indian flute music "requires a lot of concentration...
...there is an intellectual quality about Seeger which separates him from Guthrie and other singers who came out of the South and West. "Pete Seeger sings folk songs," Woody once said. "Bob Dylan is a folk singer." This other side of Seeger is the ethnomusicologist, (the trade which his father also pursues.) Seeger often refers in concert to Alan Lomax, who collected a lot of backwoods songs for the Library of Congress. This is work which Seeger believes in very strongly. "People often tend to forget their own culture," he says. "It takes somebody from the outside to come...