Kenneth S. Goldstein
Kenneth S. Goldstein (1927-1995) was a prominent American folk music fieldworker and record producer.
Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated within business administration and statistics at City College of New York, but after WWII began a career in folk music studies.
He was an important part of the folk music revival in the US in the 1950s and 1960s. Later, he was the first to do a PhD in Folklore and Folklife at Penn University, and worked at the Department of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1976. Goldstein recorded Lightnin' Hopkins, Reverend Gary Davis and many others for labels such as Stinson, Folkways, Prestige and Riverside Records. In addition to producing more than 500 albums of folk music, his book A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore (from 1974) was a standard in the field for many years.[1]
Goldstein married Rochelle Judith Korn in 1949 and they had five children: Rhoda, Diane Goldstein (a prominent folk music academic in her own right), Michael, Karl and Scott.
References
External links
- About Goldstein at the Kenneth Goldstein fonds Memorial University page
- Abrahams, Roger D. 1995 Fields of folklore. Essays in honor of Kenneth Goldstein, Trickster Press