Harry Smith
Harry Smith, Harry Everett Smith; filmmaker; member of Ordo Templi Orientis, Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
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- “The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing. ‘The Harry Smith B-Sides,’ a companion piece to the curator’s 1952 collection, shows a darker side than the original.” Retrieved Oct 22, 2020
- “Harry Smith’s Musical Catalogue of Human Experience. 'The Anthology of American Folk Music' is probably the most significant example of how a particular collector’s preferences can shape a canon.” Retrieved Oct 4, 2020: “Smith, who was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1923, and died in 1991, was an eccentric polymath. He painted, made experimental films, practiced occult alchemy (he was ordained in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, a spiritual group affiliated with the magician and self-appointed prophet Aleister Crowley), and believed that the careful accumulation and ordering of things could bring about new knowledge.” Moreover, not just ordained, but also a bishop in EGC.
- Jacob Rabinowitz, Blame It On Blake: a memoir of dead languages, gender vagrancy, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso & Carr; “IV: Boozy Interlude, 1: Harry Smith”
- Harry Smith: American Magus, Revised And Expanded Edition, ed Paola Igliori 1635901642
- Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed 0374282242
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