tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839623793894703519.post7403069511276574795..comments2024-03-27T00:47:16.020+11:00Comments on The Bush Music Club: Found onTROVE - Part 4. Ballads of Coal Miners (1939)secretaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09968704899333901045noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839623793894703519.post-22174974680069314832018-03-28T14:54:57.192+11:002018-03-28T14:54:57.192+11:00George Korson was a journalist who often met with ...George Korson was a journalist who often met with local miners and became interested in their songs poems and attitudes. These he collected and they were first published in the Miners Journal published by the formidable miners leader John Lewis. Korson latched one of the first folk festivals in the US and his books raised the derision of those who couldn't imagine miners composing on the their own. The derision often invoked use of the term "Fake Lore" as a lofty dismissal of industrial vernacular song and poetry, a term taken up again in the British Folk Revival of the 1950sswaggieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15378594773090879398noreply@blogger.com