The Early Years of Folk Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Early Years of Folk Music write by David Dicaire. This book was released on 2010-03-30. The Early Years of Folk Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change. Profiles of Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and others show how the stage was set for the American folk revival of the 1960s.
Singing Out
Singing Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singing Out write by David King Dunaway. This book was released on 2010-04-14. Singing Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The narrators highlight many of the major folk revival figures, including Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, Phil Ochs, Mary Travers, Don McLean, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, and Holly Near. Together they tell the stories of such musical groups as the Composers' Collective, the Almanac Singers, People's Songs, the Weavers, the New Lost City Ramblers, and the Freedom Singers. Folklorists, musicians, musicologists, writers, activists, and aficionados reveal not only what happened during the folk revivals, but what it meant to those personally and passionately involved. For everyone who ever picked up a guitar, fiddle, or banjo, this will be a book to give and cherish. Extensive notes, bibliography, and discography, plus a photo section.
Folk City
Folk City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folk City write by Stephen Petrus. This book was released on 2015. Folk City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Washington Square Park and Café Society to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the famous folk music revival of the 1950s and '60s. Folk City, by Stephen Petrus and Ronald Cohen, explores New York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America.
Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan
Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan write by Lawrence J. Epstein. This book was released on 2010-03-08. Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many American folk singers have tried to leave their world a better place by writing songs of social protest. Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez sang with fierce moral voices to transform what they saw as an uncaring society. But the personal tales of these guitar-toting idealists were often more tangled than the comparatively pure vision their art would suggest. Many singers produced work in the midst of personal failure and deeply troubled relationships, and under the influence of radical ideas and organizations. This provocative work examines both the long tradition of folk music in its American political context and the lives of those troubadours who wrote its most enduring songs.
Romancing the Folk
Romancing the Folk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romancing the Folk write by Benjamin Filene. This book was released on 2000. Romancing the Folk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo
