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Richard Dyer-Bennet - The Last Minstrel (Paperback)
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Richard Dyer-Bennet - The Last Minstrel (Paperback)
Series: American Made Music Series
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In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among
the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O.
Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often
referred to as the ""Twentieth-Century Minstrel."" Dyer-Bennet's
approach to singing sounded almost foreign to many American
listeners. The folk artist followed a musical tradition in danger
of dying out. The Swede Sven Scholander was the last European
proponent of minstrelsy and served as Dyer-Bennet's inspiration
after the young singer traveled to Stockholm to meet him one year
before Scholander's death. Dyer-Bennet's achievements were many.
Nine years after his meeting with Scholander, he became the first
solo performer of his kind to appear in Carnegie Hall. This book
argues Dyer-Bennet helped pave the way for the folk boom of the
mid-1950s and early 1960s, finding his influence in the work of
Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and many others. It also posits strong
evidence that Dyer-Bennet would certainly be much better known
today had his career not been interrupted midstream by the
anticommunist, Red-scare blacklist and its ban on his
performances..
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