{"product_id":"marisa-anderson_the-anthology-of-unamerican-folk-music-vol-1-cd_2026_lba","title":"The Anthology Of Unamerican Folk Music Vol. 1","description":"Marisa Anderson's music transcends borders. The topography of her work interrogates the intersections between art and expression, form and tradition. A singular guitarist and tireless musical collaborator, Anderson creates pieces imbued with both respect and curiosity, reinventing familiar forms to create a body of work that is uniquely her own. For decades, Anderson has explored the complex and interconnected veins of American folk traditions in which she was immersed from a young age, going beyond them and incorporating into her work the vocabulary and techniques of vernacular folk music from around the world. Refusing reproduction or simple reinterpretation, Anderson's music engages in dialogue with tradition.\n\nThe Anthology of Non-American Folk Music is drawn from nearly a thousand songs from the late Harry Smith's private record collection. For this album, Anderson explores music from regions with which the United States has been in conflict since 1970: Southeast Asia, the USSR, and the Arab and Islamic regions of the world. In Volume 1, she presents her own deeply personal interpretations of nine songs taken from the Anthology. Composed, transcribed, and arranged through a process of trial and error, careful listening, and extensive research, these works trace a musical journey from Afghanistan to Vietnam, via Yemen, Cambodia, and Turkmenistan. She performs with dexterity and mastery compositions drawn from Pakistani qawwali and Syrian taqsim. Each track on the album presents itself as a dialogue between Anderson and the original recordings, refracted through the prism of her unique musical vision.","brand":"Marisa Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57457313743192,"sku":null,"price":23931210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/marisa-anderson_the-anthology-of-unamerican-folk-music-vol-1-cd_2026_lba","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}