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Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Tony Olmsted

Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound Tony Olmsted. RBF label, 1974. Courtesy DavidA. Jasen. Typical 1970s era Folkways Records contract. Courtesy David A. Jasen.
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Last Great ...

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Last Great ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

Despite these fears, Olmsted’s work in the final six years of his professional career would only enhance his considerable reputation, as the ninth and final volume of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted reveals.
Site Matters

Site Matters

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Olmsted, Sr., scholar Charles Beveridge similarly argues that Olmsted, Sn, was not a regionalist. Charles E. Beveridge, "Regionalism in Frederick Law Olmsted's Social Thought and Landscape Design Practice," in Regional Garden Design, ...
Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and ...

Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted Charles Beveridge. the editors print the cancelled material in bracketed italics; the present volume omits the cancelled material entirely. The Notes to the present volume provide information about the publication history ...
Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Tony Olmsted

By the time of his death in 1986, he had amassed an archive of over 2,200 LPs and thousands of hours of tapes; so valuable was this collection that it was purchased by the Smithsonian Institute.
Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Frederick Law Olmsted

An anthology of the key writings of the best-known and arguably most prolific landscape architect in U.S. history.
American Icons

American Icons

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Thomas. J. Mickey. To walk in a public park is the right of every American. The idea of a ''public park'' has a history in this country that originates with one man, Frederick Law Olmsted. In the nineteenth century Olmsted undertook the design ...
A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the ...

A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

"Back and forth from the Sabine to the Rio Grande, through San Augustine, Nacogdoches, San Marcos, San Antonio, Neu-Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Lavaca, Indianola, Goliad, Castroville, La Grange, Houston, Harrisburg, and Beaumont, Olmsted ...
Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways

Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways

Richard Carlin

Canadian scholar Tony Olmsted has written an entire book addressing this question, showing how Asch cleverly created various entities—from Folkways and related labels to a distribution company, Pioneer Record Sales, a book publishing ...
Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. ...

Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. ...

Ian Zack

Moses Asch, interview by Gary Kenton, November 1982, Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Tony Olmsted, Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound (New York: Routledge, 2003), 39.
ARSC Membership Directory

ARSC Membership Directory

Association for Recorded Sound Collections

ALBERTA. James Whittle EDMONTON T6G 2L4 780435-7883 780492-0598 Tony Olmsted EDMONTON T6H3H2 780434-8325 780425-1025. BRITISH. COLUMBIA. Kenneth McLean NORTHVANCOUVER V7L4N9 604-986-1506 University ...
Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes

Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes

Frederick Law Olmsted

Civilizing American Cities collects Olmsted's plans for New York, San Francisco, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and Boston; his suburban plans for Berkeley, California and Riverside, Illinois; and a generous helping of his writings on urban ...
The Reverend Goes Home: A Tony Wagner Mystery

The Reverend Goes Home: A Tony Wagner Mystery

Paula F. Winskye

FBI consultant Tony Wagner, his wife, & son head to Wisconsin to visit Tony's family.
Frenzy

Frenzy

Rex Miller

You got your basic made wise guys, the old LCN, which was under the legendary Tony Gee, who I know you've heard about. He was the fucking man. He ran the whole schmear. His main man was another Tony, Tony Cypriot, and that's where  ...
Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler

In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of having visited all the rogue countries currently on newreaders' lip.
The Supernova Advisor: Crossing the Invisible Bridge to ...

The Supernova Advisor: Crossing the Invisible Bridge to ...

Robert D. Knapp

Growth is why you segment, and segmenting is the only way to grow. Of course, that proof is more evident now than it was then to Tony Singh. Tony Singh and the Thousand-Yard Stare Tony is a Merrill Lynch FA with a remarkable story that  ...
Tony Hawk: Skateboard Mogul

Tony Hawk: Skateboard Mogul

Amy Sterling Casil

At school, Tony didn't really fit in, with his torn and baggy clothes and scabs on his knees from skateboarding. Before he discovered skateboarding, Tony was very hard on himself, and today he even says that he was “a hyper, rail-thin geek on ...
Bronx Requiem: A Detective Jack Kenny Mystery

Bronx Requiem: A Detective Jack Kenny Mystery

John Roe

No one was going to give Tony Gee the benefit of the doubt. Not that Tony deservedit.The onethinginallofthis that Jack understood more clearly than anyone else was that Tony Gee had earned his bad reputation. But from the moment the case ...
Tony Evans Speaks Out on Prayer

Tony Evans Speaks Out on Prayer

Tony Evans

There are some basics with which people need to be equipped to live a more victorious Christian life. Tony Evans has heard the people's cry for these sometimes difficult principles to be made simple and explained clearly and succinctly.
Tony Wheeler's Dark Lands1

Tony Wheeler's Dark Lands1

Tony Wheeler

Join Tony and find out if there's a happily-ever-after in these tales from the dark side.
The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life

The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life

Tony Horton

Part Tony Robbins, part Mehmet Oz, here is fitness guru and creator of P90X Tony Horton’s wake-up call for readers—a motivational and practical guide to creating a better life and a healthier body.
Making Sense of Journals in the Life Sciences: From ...

Making Sense of Journals in the Life Sciences: From ...

Tony Stankus

IN THE LIFE SCIENCES: FROM SPECIALTY ORIGINS TO CONTEMPORARY ASSORTMENT Tony Stankus, MLS SOME ADVANCE REVIEWS "Tony Stankus has produced a thoroughly researched and well documented reference work.
Quiet Strength: A Memoir

Quiet Strength: A Memoir

Tony Dungy

. . . I'm not afraid to say it.""-Tony Dungy People of all ages crave heroes. But it's rare to find someone-especially someone in the media spotlight like Tony Dungy-whose life "and" work reflect positive, value-driven precepts.
Pain Is Skin Deep

Pain Is Skin Deep

James Leon Freeman III

“I know a girl, that is dating Tim Brady,” Tony Grossi said out loud. “Whois that?” Paulie Alpano asked. “He's their war chief, third in command after Billy O'neil,” Tony Grossi replied. “Howdo you know the girl, Tony?” Bobby Sislo asked.

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