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Roots of the Revival - American and British Folk Music in the 1950s (Paperback)
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Roots of the Revival - American and British Folk Music in the 1950s (Paperback)
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In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the
1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a
transatlantic history of folk's midcentury resurgence that
juxtaposes the related but distinct revivals that took place in the
United States and Great Britain.
After setting the stage with the work of music collectors in the
nineteenth century, the authors explore the so-called recovery of
folk music practices and performers by Alan Lomax and others,
including journeys to and within the British Isles that allowed
artists and folk music advocates to absorb native forms and
facilitate the music's transatlantic exchange. Cohen and Donaldson
place the musical and cultural connections of the twin revivals
within the decade's social and musical milieu and grapple with the
performers' leftist political agendas and artistic challenges,
including the fierce debates over "authenticity" in practice and
repertoire that erupted when artists like Harry Belafonte and the
Kingston Trio carried folk into the popular music mainstream.
From work songs to skiffle, from the Weavers in Greenwich Village
to Burl Ives on the BBC, Roots of the Revival offers a frank and
wide-ranging consideration of a time, a movement, and a
transformative period in American and British pop culture.
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