Kitchen Tunks and Parlor Songs

In the 1980s, Mark Greenberg interviewed and recorded old-time, grassroots Vermont musicians and produced both a video documentary, The Unbroken Circle – 1985 – and a CD anthology, Kitchen Tunks and Parlor Songs – 2003.
In this presentation, he discusses collecting oral histories in Vermont, examines how earlier music survived in the twentieth century, and considers how the music was affected by social and technological developments.