Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The narrators highlight many of the major folk revival figures, including Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, Phil Ochs, Mary Travers, Don McLean, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, and Holly Near. Together they tell the stories of such musical groups as the Composers' Collective, the Almanac Singers, People's Songs, the Weavers, the New Lost City Ramblers, and the Freedom Singers. Folklorists, musicians, musicologists, writers, activists, and aficionados reveal not only what happened during the folk revivals, but what it meant to those personally and passionately involved. For everyone who ever picked up a guitar, fiddle, or banjo, this will be a book to give and cherish. Extensive notes, bibliography, and discography, plus a photo section.
| ISBN | 0199896569 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780199896561
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 378 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Series title | Oxford Oral History Series | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Publication date | 26 Jan 2012 | | Width (mm) | 155 | | DEWEY | 781.6213009 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Academic level | General, Further/Higher education |
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FOREWORD BY PETE SEEGER; INTRODUCTION BY DAVID KING DUNAWAY; 1. I NEVER HEARD A HORSE SING IT!: DEFINING FOLK MUSIC; 2. EARLY COLLECTORS; 3. MUSIC FOR THE MASSES; 4. GREENWICH VILLAGE: 1940S; 5. AM I IN AMERICA?: THE RED SCARE; 6. FOLK BOOM; 7. MOVEMENT MUSIC: CIVIL RIGHTS; 8. FOLK-ROCK; 9. NU FOLK; 10. THE POWER OF MUSIC; BIOGRAPHIES OF INTERVIEWEES; NOTES ON THE INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEW INDEX; DISCOGRAPHY; BIBLIOGRAPHY
"The authors have spent quite a bit of time addressing the critical, interesting, and important question: 'What is folk music?' Defining folk music is not only difficult and complex, it's slipperier than a greased eel! Through the use of extensive quotes and interviews Beer and Dunaway revisit the folk revival head-on, causing me to rethink the role individuals as diverse as Tristam Coffin, Pete Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt played during this important period in American music history." --Kip Lornell, The George Washington University, author of The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to AmericanFolk Music, Introducing American Folk Music, and The Life and Legend of Leadbelly (with Charles K. Wolfe)
"Dunaway and Beer's Singing Out is a marvelous stew of original quotations mixed with the editors' astute discussions of the historical contexts. Drawing upon a broad array of musicians, academics, collectors, and writers, they have covered the twentieth century into the twenty-first, with some focus on the importance of protest/political songs. This is now the starting place for any understanding of the role of folk music in American society, and should spawn future studies, particularly dealing with the post-1970s period." --Ronald D. Cohen, author of Rainbow Quest: The Folk MusicRevival and American Society, 1940-1970
"This intriguing history of American folk music in the 20th century by its performers and participants will appeal to academics, folk music aficionados, and musicians."--Library Journal
"[A] marvelous resource for anyone interested in American folk music."--Booklist
"Fascinating."--Albuquerque Journal
"An important and excellent new book...Uncover[s] the true life of folk music in North America as it progressed through the world-altering twentieth century." --The Journal of Music
"All fans and scholars of folk music and American History will value this study. Highly recommended." --Choice
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