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Folk music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: This heading is used as a genre/form heading for locally or regionally traditional music that was originally developed in performance and aurally transmitted in community contexts, and for music composed stylistically and/or ideologically within these traditions.

See also headings for music of individual instruments followed by the qualifier "(Folk)" and the subdivisions -- Methods (Folk) and -- Studies and exercises (Folk) under individual musical instruments and families of instruments

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Osi Sladek, 2015 April 3

 File
Identifier: B292.01.0001.0002
Abstract

The newspaper article appeared in the April 3, 2015 Passover Edition of the "Intermountain Jewish News." Daniel Sladek wrote about his father Osi Sladek who was a child Holocaust survivor and a folk singer and composer. He took part in the folk music revival beginning in 1958 when he arrived in California.

Dates: 2015 April 3

Rosen And Sladek Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B292
Abstract Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel Castille and Zelda Goldberg Rosen settled on Denver's west side and raised 13 children. Their daughter Clara Rosen married Joseph Rosen and they had four children including Selma Rosen who married Osi Sladek. Joseph Rosen began selling newspapers in Denver at the age of seven, starting out as a helper for his future brothers-in-law Max and Al Rosen. Hyman Rosen was born in Denver in 1916, the third youngest of the 13 children of Samuel and Zelda Rosen. He...
Dates: 1960-2015