Gordon Friesen
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Gordon Friesen and wife Agnes Sis Cunningham
were the founders of Broadside, the political song magazine that first published many of the most popular songs of the folk revival, including Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs.
Friesen and Cunningham were also members of the Almanac Singers
during the 1940s, a Greenwich Village
urban folk music revival group with a shifting membership.
"At its peak, Broadside appeared monthly, but as the folk revival lost momentum, its publication dwindled to bimonthly and ultimately semi-annually by the end of the 1960s. Although its circulation never exceeded four figures, the Friesens kept Broadside afloat until 1988, publishing 187 issues in all."
In 1999, Cunningham published their collaborative memoir, Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiographyhttp://books.google.com/books?id=62dIgwK9cFAC&dq=Red+Dust+and+Broadsides&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=aJKYSZrCL9LjtgfE6YiZCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result:
In 2000, Smithsonian Folkways Records
collected the magazine’s most notable songs on the five-CD box set The Best of Broadside 1962-1988http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3003.
Sis Cunningham
Agnes Cunningham was an American musician, best known for her involvement as a performer and publicist of folk music and protest songs...
were the founders of Broadside, the political song magazine that first published many of the most popular songs of the folk revival, including Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs.
Friesen and Cunningham were also members of the Almanac Singers
Almanac Singers
The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who, as their name indicates, specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with the labor movement...
during the 1940s, a Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
urban folk music revival group with a shifting membership.
"At its peak, Broadside appeared monthly, but as the folk revival lost momentum, its publication dwindled to bimonthly and ultimately semi-annually by the end of the 1960s. Although its circulation never exceeded four figures, the Friesens kept Broadside afloat until 1988, publishing 187 issues in all."
In 1999, Cunningham published their collaborative memoir, Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiographyhttp://books.google.com/books?id=62dIgwK9cFAC&dq=Red+Dust+and+Broadsides&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=aJKYSZrCL9LjtgfE6YiZCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result:
In 2000, Smithsonian Folkways Records
Folkways Records
Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music. It was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1987, and is now part of Smithsonian Folkways.-History:...
collected the magazine’s most notable songs on the five-CD box set The Best of Broadside 1962-1988http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3003.