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Part One. Historical figures: Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723), English folk comic -- Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), the Gaelic harpist -- Denis O'Hempsey (1695-1807), harp magic -- Niel Gow (1727-1807), Scottish fiddle dance master -- Edward Bunting (1773-1843), the transcriber -- Targjei Augundsson (1801-1872), father of Norwegian folk -- Ostap Veresai (1803-1899), Ukrainian minstrel -- Francis J. Child (1825-1896), the collector -- Cecil Sharp (1859-1924), folklore revivalist -- Part Two. American pioneers: Stephen Foster (1826-1864), father of American folk music -- John A. Lomax (1867-1948), the ballad hunter -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973), minstrel of the Appalachians -- Charles Seeger (1886-1979), American musicologist -- Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), pistol packing mama -- Helen Flanders (1890-1972), the Vermont songcatcher -- John Jacob Niles (1892-1980), dean of American balladeers -- Elizabeth Cotten (1893-1987), the fingerpicker -- Clarence Ashley (1895-1967), the Blue Ridge entertainer -- Dock Boggs (1898-1971), primeval hillbilly folk -- Buell Kazee (1900-1976), lonesome balladeer -- Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), folk music matriarch -- Part three. Political connections: Joe Hill (1879-1915), the initiator -- Burl Ives (1909-1995), the wayfarin' stranger -- Earl Robinson (1910-1989), ballad for Americans -- Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), bound for glory -- Lee Hays (1914-1981), lonesome traveler -- Josh White (1914-1969), folk-blues protest -- Cisco Houston (1918-1961), the pure voice -- Joe Glazer (1918-2006), labor's troubadour -- Pete Seeger (1919- ), twentieth century folk man -- Fred Hellerman (1927- ), the little cowboy -- Part four. Folk around the world: Béla Bartók (1881-1945), the Hungarian ethnomusicologist -- Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901-1978), the oud master -- Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-1992), modern Argentine folk king -- Luis Gonzaga (1912-1989), Forró folk -- Edith Fowke (1913-1996), Canadian folklorist -- Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915-1984), urban Greek folkie -- Amélia Rodrigues (1920-1999), voice of Portugal -- Buddy MacMaster (1924- ), dean of Cape Breton fiddlers -- Hamza El Din (1929-2006), Nubian folk master -- Severino Dias di Oliveira (1930-2006), sivuca -- Part five. The pre-folk boom era: Hobart Smith (1897-1965), Blue Ridge legacy -- Moses Asch (1905-1986), Folkways founder -- A.L. Lloyd (1908-1982), father of English folk -- Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991), renaissance man -- Alan Lomax (1915-2002), folksong revivalist -- Ewan MacColl (1915-1989), English folk revivalist -- Oscar Brand (1920- ), the Can-Am folklorist -- Jean Ritchie (1922- ), the mother of folk -- Harry Smith (1923-1991), the anthologist