Article: Cultural channeling: old-time country music has become the new punk rock.(CULTURE)(Agnes Cunningham dies at age 95)(Obituary)

Agnes Cunningham died at the end of June, at age 95. She was the accordion player for the Almanac Singers, a Depression-era folk group that also included Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Later she and her husband started the folk music magazine Broadside, which published lyrics by Bob Dylan before he had a record deal. Like Guthrie, Cunningham was from Oklahoma. Her family really did lose its farm in the Dust Bowl. And she was radicalized by attending Commonwealth College in Arkansas, an institution started by the organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union.

I must confess that when a sharp-eyed Sojourners editor passed on the news of Cunningham's death to me, ...

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