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"I Hear America Singing" - Folk Music and National Identity (Paperback)
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"I Hear America Singing" - Folk Music and National Identity (Paperback)
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Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It
reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community
and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a
group or nation. In America, folk music--from African American
spirituals to English ballads and protest songs--renders the
imagined community more tangible and comprises a critical component
of our diverse national heritage.
In ""I Hear America Singing,"" Rachel Donaldson traces the vibrant
history of the twentieth-century folk music revival from its
origins in the 1930s through its end in the late 1960s. She
investigates the relationship between the revival and concepts of
nationalism, showing how key figures in the revival--including Pete
Seeger, Alan Lomax, Moses Asch, and Ralph Rinzler--used songs to
influence the ways in which Americans understood the values, the
culture, and the people of their own nation.
As Donaldson chronicles how cultural norms were shaped over the
course of the mid-twentieth century, she underscores how various
groups within the revival and their views shifted over time. ""I
Hear America Singing"" provides a stirring account of how and why
the revivalists sustained their culturally pluralist and
politically democratic Americanism over this tumultuous period in
American history.
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