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PUBLISHED WRITINGS (independent of album notes, above): <br /> -June 2013 (forthcoming). "It's Only Perfect Because He's Authentic." Oxford <br /> American. <br /> Commissioned online consideration of the notions of"authenticity" and <br /> "pure culture" with regard to American folk music. <br /> -March 2013. "A Folk Revival Playlist." Oxford American. <br /> Online compilation of wonderful and seminal performances from the <br /> period known as the American "Folk Revival," roughly late `40s to early '60s. Co- <br /> compiler with Amanda Petrusich. <br /> -June 2011—May 2012. "Root Hog Or Die." Louisville Eccentric Observer. <br /> Monthly music column. Topics included cell-phone music of the Western <br /> Sahel, Victor Records' 1931 recording session in Louisville, the discovery of blue <br /> guitarist Blind Blake's death certifcate, and appreciations of klezmer comedian <br /> Mickey Katz and the amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins (with whom I <br /> share a hometown and a birthday). <br /> -December 2009. "Sharing Resources, Sharing Responsibility: Archives <br /> in the Digital Age." Journal of the International Association of Sound and <br /> Audiovisual Archives (1A SA). <br /> A paper on the Alan Lomax Archive's transition from a physical to a digital <br /> archive, originally presented at the 2009 IASA conference in Athens, Greece. <br /> -April 2009. "Labor of Love," Louisville Eccentric Observer. <br /> An appreciation of activist, folklorist, and progenitor of"laborlore," Archie <br /> Green, on the occasion of his passing. <br /> -August 2008. Art of Field Recording, Volume Two. (Dust-to-Digital label, <br /> Atlanta) <br /> Introduction to CD box-set of the folk-music recordings of collector and <br /> scholar Art Rosenbaum. (The first volume won a 2008 Grammy Award for Best <br /> Historical Reissue.) <br /> -October 2007. "The `Authentic' Buell Kazee," Louisville Eccentric Observer. <br /> Regarding the late Kentucky banjo player and preacher Kazee and the <br /> various notions of folkloric "authenticity." <br /> -August 2007. Spencer Moore CD (Tompkins Square Records, New York City). <br /> Liner notes for an album of new recordings by 87-year-old country guitarist <br /> and singer from Southwestern Virginia. <br /> -Winter 2006-2007. "Captain, Captain, Don't You Know My Name," American <br /> Short Fiction. <br />