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1917–2009

Sam Duffie Hinton (March 17, 1917 – September 10, 2009) was an American folk singer and marine biologist, best known for popularizing traditional folksongs and folklore.

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The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sam Hinton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.