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Harry Everett Smith - Artist, musician and shaman. Harry was a living conduit of folk music. He delivered brilliant and unrecognized works of folk music created in the 1920's and 30's to the musicians of the 50's and 60's. He was an amazing anthologist who made sure the roots of folk music were not forgotten. He ran with the beat poets, lived an alternative and brilliant life full of art, movie making and was utterly devoted to teaching others the interconnectness of everything. American Folk Music, Harry Smith, Weird History, Blue Song, Chelsea Hotel, People Inspiration, Joan Baez, Movie Making, Contemporary Music
American Folk Music
Harry Smith
Weird History
Blue Song
Chelsea Hotel
People Inspiration
Joan Baez
Movie Making
Contemporary Music

Harry Smith: musician and shaman

Harry Everett Smith - Artist, musician and shaman. Harry was a living conduit of folk music. He delivered brilliant and unrecognized works of folk music created in the 1920's and 30's to the musicians of the 50's and 60's. He was an amazing anthologist who made sure the roots of folk music were not forgotten. He ran with the beat poets, lived an alternative and brilliant life full of art, movie making and was utterly devoted to teaching others the interconnectness of everything.

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Harry Everett Smith Maggot Brain, Seminole Patchwork, American Folk Music, Jazz Painting, Brain Drawing, Gilded Cage, Harry Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, Avant Garde Artists
Maggot Brain
Seminole Patchwork
American Folk Music
Jazz Painting
Brain Drawing
Gilded Cage
Harry Smith
Dizzy Gillespie
Avant Garde Artists

Harry Smith: American Magus

Artist, alchemical filmmaker, musical archeologist and avant garde shaman, Harry Smith’s obsessive interests made him an influential, yet not widely known, figure of 20th century Beat culture and beyond. If Smith was only responsible for preserving the folk and blues musical traditions of early America in his Anthology of American Folk Music set from 1952, we would have him to thank for providing a way forward for a young Bob Dylan and the whole of the 60s/70s folk scene. But Smith was far…

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‘The Dream of Color Music’: Abstract animator Oskar Fischinger, Harry Smith’s favorite director Oskar Fischinger, Tin Woodman, Kenneth Anger, Music Abstract, Color Music, Magic Inspiration, Experimental Film, Abstract Animation, Harry Smith
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Kenneth Anger
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Magic Inspiration
Experimental Film
Abstract Animation
Harry Smith

‘The Dream of Color Music’: Abstract animator Oskar Fischinger, Harry Smith’s favorite director

Harry Smith, the eccentric experimental filmmaker, artist, anthropologist, bohemian mystic and record collector, first encountered Oskar Fischinger’s animated films in 1947, when he was helping organize the experimental film festival Art in Cinema for the San Francisco Museum of Art. Fischinger’s work had a profound effect on Smith. According to Rani Singh, executor of the Harry Smith Archives, Smith traveled to Los Angeles in July 1947 on the festival’s behalf to connect with SoCal…

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