![]() ![]() Its originality in music and point of view was boundless-co-equal with the varied experience and culture of the people themselves. ![]() Editing aimed to transfer the surge of speech into the quieter flow of type could, I found, sometimes produce prose as graceful and finely-tuned as the best of written literature. Earlier, in my field work, as I had taken down the repertoires of Leadbelly, Molly Jackson, Woody Guthrie and others, asking them to fill in the background for the songs with stories of their lives, I had come to realize that what these people had to say and their way of saying it was as good as their songs. PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION As far as I know, this was the first recorded biography to be made into a book.
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