When we were good : the folk revival (Book, 1996) [WorldCat.org]
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When we were good : the folk revival

Author: Robert Cantwell
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Univ. Press 1996
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This text traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the 1960s. It includes coverage of: 19th-century blackface minstrels; the Jewish entertainment and political cultures  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Cantwell
ISBN: 0674951328 9780674951327
OCLC Number: 832579880
Description: VIII, 412 Seiten Illustrationen
Contents: Prologue - history of a song, Tom Dooley; we are the folk - backgrounds of the revival; the new minstrelsy - Jim Crow and John Henry; ballad for Americans - the search for a people's opera; ramblin' round your city - the Almanac Singers; wasn't that a time - folk music and the Cold War; Smith's memory theater - the great folkways anthology; he shall overcome - Pete Seeger; happy campers - the children's underground; lady and the tramp - Joan Baez and Bob Dylan; nobles, patrons, patriots, reds - democracy and revivalism.
Responsibility: Robert Cantwell
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