1960s music history
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acoustic protest songs
Alan Lomax fieldwork
American folk revival
American musical roots
Appalachian song traditions
Author_Ronald D. Cohen
bluegrass influences
Bob Dylan transformation
Burl Ives early career
campus music culture
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Cold War era folk scene
college folk festivals
cowboy ballads
crossover with rock music
cultural heritage preservation
early recording industry
emergence of singer-songwriters
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ethnic folk traditions
folk archives and preservation
folk clubs and coffeehouses
folk music authenticity
folk music collectors
folk music scholarship
folk revival legacy
grassroots performance culture
Greenwich Village folk scene
influence on modern Americana
intersection of politics and art
Joan Baez influence
John Lomax recordings
Josh White folk blues
Kingston Trio popularity
labor movement songs
Leadbelly blues roots
left-wing folk movement
mid-century counterculture
music and social movements
music collecting and archiving
oral tradition in music
Pete Seeger activism
Peter Paul and Mary performances
political protest in music
revival of traditional sound
revivalist musicians
sea shanties and work songs
Smithsonian Folkways
social change through song
traditional American ballads
transformation of American soundscape
twentieth-century popular culture
urban folk movement
Weavers chart success
Woody Guthrie legacy
Product details
- ISBN 9781558493483
- Weight: 543g
- Dimensions: 157 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2002
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study reconstructs the history of the folk-music revival in the States, tracing its origins to the early decades of the 20th century. Drawing on scores of interviews and numerous manuscript collections, as well as his own extensive files, Cohen shows how a broad range of traditions - from hillbilly, gospel, blues and sea shanties to cowboy, ethnic and political-protest music - all contributed to the genre known as folk. Cohen documents the crucial work of John Lomax and other collectors who, with the assistance of recording companies, preserved and distributed folk music in the 1920s. During the 1930s and 1940s, the emergence of left-wing politics and the rise of the commercial music marketplace helped to stimulate wider interest in folk music. As Cohen explains, stars emerged, such as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives and Josh White. With the success of the Weavers and the Kingston Trio in the 1950s, the stage was set for the full-blown ""folk revival"" of the early 1960s. This book should be of interest to those teaching or taking courses in American music of the 20th century.
RONALD D. COHEN is professor of history at Indiana University Northwest, and editor of Agnes ""Sis"" Cunningham and Gordon Friesen's Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiography (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999).
