Aaron J. Leonard’s new book,/The Folk Singers and the Bureau,/draws from
almost 10,000 pages of F.B.I. files on an array of folk artists. It aims
to illustrate the considerable impact that the U.S. government’s
campaign against Communism had on folk artists in the 1940s and early
’50s. Among the artist files Leonard digs into in addition to Robeson’s
are those on Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the archivist Alan Lomax, Lee
Hays, Sis Cunningham, Millard Lampell, Josh White, Lead Belly, Aunt
Molly Jackson, Bess Lomax Hawes, the Weavers, Burl Ives, Cisco Houston
and more. All of them sat somewhere on the Communist Party spectrum,
according to the F.B.I., whether they were legitimately card-carrying
members or associated with it because they once attended a meeting or
played a concert organized by the party.
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/01/21/aaron-leonard-book-review-fbi-music-239782
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