American Folk Revival, 1958-1965: Hereos, Harlots, and Hard-Loving Losers

Name: American Folk Revival, 1958-1965: Hereos, Harlots, and Hard-Loving Losers
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ISBN: 9780825673009

ISBN-10: 0825673003

ISBN-13: 9780825673009

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ronald D. Lankford, Ronald D. Lankford

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This definitive story of American folk music focuses on how a minority music genre suddenly became the emergent voice of a generation at the end of the Eisenhower years. Go back to a more innocent time of Washington Square jam sessions, Pete Seeger sing-alongs, and Greenwich Village coffee houses. The book shows how the social issues of early rural folk music were adapted by young people in the late fifties as college students bought guitars and banjos, attended hootenannies, and marched on the Capital for Civil Rights. They neglected their textbooks for copies of Sing Out! and Broadside, and spent their hard-earned cash on the latest Joan Baez album and Limeliters? concert. From Kingston…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Music Sales Corporation
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



About the Author


Introduction


Troubadours, Prisoners, and Dirty Reds


The Midnight Special


Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads


Folk Goes Pop


Pinstriped Shirts and Banjos


Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley


The Anthology of American Folk Music


Singing Gal from the Cumberlands


Festivals and Scenes


The Folk Intelligentsia


The Village


The Mushy Middle


Queen Joan


Odetta Felious


The New Lost City Ramblers


Days of Future Past


Folk Goes Mainstream


Converting the Masses


The Limeliters


Raising All Boats


Putting the "R" in Revival


Folk Gets Political


The Silent Generation Awakes


The Birth of Broadside


Hootenanny


The Limits of Politics


The Revival Peaks


Two Beards and a Blond


Freewheelin' Bob


1963


The Twilight of the Revival


Jug Band Fever


New Traditionalists


New Wine, Old Jugs


The Twilight of the Revival


Afterword


Bibliography


Books


Websites


Index