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A Sound History - Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial (Hardcover)
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A Sound History - Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial (Hardcover)
Series: American Popular Music
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Lawrence Gellert has long been a mysterious figure in American folk
and blues studies, gaining prominence in the left-wing folk revival
of the 1930s for his fieldwork in the U.S. South. A "lean,
straggly-haired New Yorker," as Time magazine called him, Gellert
was an independent music collector, without formal training,
credentials, or affiliation. At a time of institutionalized
suppression, he worked to introduce white audiences to a tradition
of black musical protest that had been denied and overlooked by
prior white collectors. By the folk and blues revival of the 1960s,
however, when his work would again seem apt in the context of the
civil rights movement, Gellert and his collection of Negro Songs of
Protest were a conspicuous absence. A few leading figures in the
revival defamed Gellert as a fraud, dismissing his archive of black
vernacular protest as a fabrication -- an example of left-wing
propaganda and white interference. A Sound History is the story of
an individual life, an excavation of African American musical
resistance and dominant white historiography, and a cultural
history of radical possibility and reversal in the defining middle
decades of the U.S. twentieth century.
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