By Ronald D Cohen,Rachel Clare Donaldson
ISBN-10: 0252038517
ISBN-13: 9780252038518
ISBN-10: 0252080122
ISBN-13: 9780252080128
After environment the level with the paintings of song creditors within the 19th century, the authors discover the so-called restoration of folks song practices and performers by way of Alan Lomax and others, together with trips to and in the British Isles that allowed artists and people song advocates to take in local types and facilitate the music's transatlantic alternate. Cohen and Donaldson position the musical and cultural connections of the dual revivals in the decade's social and musical milieu and grapple with the performers' leftist political agendas and inventive demanding situations, together with the fierce debates over "authenticity" in perform and repertoire that erupted whilst artists like Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio carried folks into the preferred song mainstream.
From paintings songs to skiffle, from the Weavers in Greenwich Village to Burl Ives at the BBC, Roots of the Revival bargains a frank and wide-ranging attention of a time, a flow, and a transformative interval in American and British pop culture.
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