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By Ray Allen

ISBN-10: 0252035607

ISBN-13: 9780252035609

ISBN-10: 0252077474

ISBN-13: 9780252077470

Gone to the Country chronicles the existence and track of the recent misplaced urban Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots tune throughout the folks revival of the past due Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. shaped in 1958 by way of Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers brought the local forms of southern ballads, blues, string bands, and bluegrass to northerners craving for a legitimate and an event now not present in mainstream music.

 

Ray Allen interweaves biography, background, and song feedback to stick to the band from its ny roots to their involvement with the economic people tune increase. Allen information their fight to set up themselves amid serious debates approximately traditionalism caused by their model of folks revivalism. He explores how the Ramblers ascribed notions of cultural authenticity to definite musical practices and performers and the way the trio served as a hyperlink among southern people song and northern city audiences who had little past publicity to rural roots types. Highlighting the position of culture within the social upheaval of mid-century the United States, Gone to the Country attracts on vast interviews and private correspondence with band individuals and digs deep into the Ramblers' wealthy trove of recordings.

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Long gone to the rustic chronicles the existence and track of the recent misplaced urban Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots tune in the course of the folks revival of the past due Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. shaped in 1958 by means of Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers brought the nearby kinds of southern ballads, blues, string bands, and bluegrass to northerners craving for a legitimate and an adventure now not present in mainstream track.

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