How did these programs about folk music impact the recording of commercial folk music?
On February 15, 1941, Guthrie wrote to Lomax from California about why he left New York City and his plans to work on a radio program in Los Angeles. At the same time, he shared some criticisms of the radio industry: “Give our regards to the cast in New York. Hope they are all in good circumstances with a sponsor that likes them good as we do and one that believes in freedom of speaking…. I couldn’t see to save my neck any immediate prospect of a commercial there. The fifteen minutes was a little packed. The elevator run too straight up and straight down and the studio had too many radioactivities in it, and so I ducked off down across the southern states to get a first hand look at what’s going on, and lit here in L.A…. With every invention of modern times turned against them, the people sing their song just the same as they ever did. Everywhere you go they tell you they don’t believe what you hear on your radio…. as far as soaking up all of this war scare and bloody talk and ho
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