Sam Hinton

Person · Open Library

Born

1917

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1917

Active to

2009

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,283

Total plays

26,016

Sam Duffie Hinton (March 31, 1917 – September 10, 2009) was an American folk singer and marine biologist. He has had a quite diverse career. He is most famous for his music, especially his harmonica playing, but has also taught at the University of California, San Diego, published books and magazine articles on marine biology, and worked as a calligrapher and artist. He has been described as "maybe the only man alive that knows more songs than Utah Phillips". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Deep learning

   · 2015 · cited 74,758x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,397x

3. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

   · 2017 · cited 31,996x

4. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

   · 1986 · cited 24,340x

5. Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks

   · 2006 · cited 17,012x

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Quotes

• “A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience—provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control [...] his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “The distance between folk society and literate society is ever decreasing, and Teresa Brewer will yet shake hands with Mrs. Texas Gladden. But until that happens—until my own culture, and Teresa Brewer's, develops a folk tradition of its own—If I want to learn something about real folk music, I'll stick with Mrs. Gladden.”

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