Elaine Thatcher

Elaine Thatcher, Folk arts Program, Director, Western States Arts Federation, Santa Fe, New Mexico

A Song Worth Singing | Michael Hicks, Mormonism and Music: A History

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 3

Anyone who has worked with Mormon music has likely experienced the frustration of being unable to learn much about its past —such things as composers, per formers, and institutional policy and practice. Collections of folk…

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Memory and Familiarity | Thomas Edward Cheney, Voices from the Bottom of the Bowl: A Folk History of Teton Valley, Idaho, from 1823-1952

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 3

This collection of reminiscences about life in a tiny southern Idaho com munity has such an authentic flavor of small-town Mormon country, a flavor which I did not experience first-hand but at a second-generation level…

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