"A Long Road From ‘Come by Here’ to ‘Kumbaya’"
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Published: November 19, 2010
Nearing 40 and nearly broke, ousted from his last job as an English professor, a folklore buff named Robert Winslow Gordon set out in the spring of 1926 from his temporary home on the Georgia seacoast, lugging a hand-cranked cylinder recorder and searching for songs in the nearby black hamlets.
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This is like an inside, inside, inside joke... at the expense of the New York Times, and it's like they don't even see the irony.
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