¹ None of the books about Moses Asch and Folkways discusses Gesser in much detail. Goldsmith, Peter D., Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)Google Scholar, does not mention Gesser at all. Olmsted, Tony, Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound (New York: Routledge, 2003)Google Scholar, refers to him just once in passing (on p. 189). Carlin, Richard, Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways (New York: Smithsonian Books, 2008)Google Scholar, offers a one-page account of Gesser's career (on p. 92), written by D. A. Sonneborn.

² Walser, Robert, Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1993), 60Google Scholar.

³ In 1994 First Nations groups objected to a proposed government bill that would have named hockey as Canada's national sport, replacing lacrosse, a game invented by Native North Americans. In light of this history, it was perhaps not good judgment to use a hockey image on the cover of a CD that contains four selections of music by Aboriginal Canadians; my viewpoint, however, may be colored by my own antipathy toward hockey.