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Oster, Harry

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Personal name headingOster, Harry
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedIowa City (Iowa)
Birth date19230412
Death date20010119
Place of birthCambridge (Mass.)
AffiliationUniversity of Iowa. College of Liberal Arts
Profession or occupationFolklorists Musicologists College teachers
Found inHis A sampler of Lousiana folksongs. [Phonodisc] 1957.
Oxford music online, November 12, 2014: Enc. of popular music, 4th ed. (Oster, Harry; born April 12, 1923, Cambridge, Massachusetts, died January 19, 2001, USA; recorded blues singers and instrumentalists between the mid-1950s and the early 1960s; taught American folk music, early country blues, and related subjects at the University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for 30 years; author of Living country blues, 1969, and The Penguin dictionary of American folklore, 2000)
Wikipedia, November 12, 2014 (Harry Oster; Dr. Harry Oster; born April 12, 1923, died January 19, 2001; American folklorist and musicologist; professor at the University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, from 1963)
Social Security death index, November 12, 2014 (Harry Oster; born April 12, 1923, died January 19, 2001; last known residence, Iowa City, Iowa)