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An edition of The early years of folk music: fifty founders of the tradition (2010)

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"This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change"--Provided by publisher.

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McFarland & Co.
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Folk music, Folk musicians, History and criticism, Biography, Folk music, history and criticism, Musicians, biography

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Table of Contents

Part One. Historical figures: Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723), English folk comic
Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), the Gaelic harpist
Denis O'Hempsey (1695-1807), harp magic
Niel Gow (1727-1807), Scottish fiddle dance master
Edward Bunting (1773-1843), the transcriber
Targjei Augundsson (1801-1872), father of Norwegian folk
Ostap Veresai (1803-1899), Ukrainian minstrel
Francis J. Child (1825-1896), the collector
Cecil Sharp (1859-1924), folklore revivalist
Part Two. American pioneers: Stephen Foster (1826-1864), father of American folk music
John A. Lomax (1867-1948), the ballad hunter
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973), minstrel of the Appalachians
Charles Seeger (1886-1979), Ammerican musicologist
Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), pistol packing mama
Helen Flanders (1890-1972), the Vermont songcatcher
John Jacob Niles (1892-1980), dean of American balladeers
Elizabeth Cotten (1893-1987), the fingerpicker
Clarence Ashley (1895-1967), the Blue Ridge entertainer
Dock Boggs (1898-1971), primeval hillbilly folk
Buell Kazee (1900-1976), lonesome balladeer
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), folk music matriarch
Part three. Political connections: Joe Hill (1879-1915), the initiator
Burl Ives (1909-1995), the wayfarin' stranger
Earl Robinson (1910-1989), ballad for Americans
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), bound for glory
Lee Hays (1914-1981), lonesome traveler
Josh White (1914-1969), folk-blues protest
Cisco Houston (1918-1961), the pure voice
Joe Glazer (1918-2006), labor's troubadour
Pete Seeger (1919- ), twentieth century folk man
Fred Hellerman (1927- ), the little cowboy
Part four. Folk around the world: Béla Bartók (1881-1945), the Hungarian ethnomusicologist
Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901-1978), the oud master
Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-1992), modern Argentine folk king
Luis Gonzaga (1912-1989), Forr' folk
Edith Fowke (1913-1996), Canadian folklorist
Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915-1984), urban Greek folkie
Amélia Rodrigues (1920-1999), voice of Portugal
Buddy MacMaster (1924- ), dean of Cape Breton fiddlers
Hamza El Din (1929-2006), Nubian folk master
Severino Dias di Oliveira (1930-2006), sivuca
Part five. The pre-folk boom era: Hobart Smith (1897-1965), Blue Ridge legacy
Moses Asch (1905-1986), Folkways founder
A.L. Lloyd (1908-1982), father of English folk
Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991), renaissance man
Alan Lomax (1915-2002), folksong revivalist
Ewan MacColl (1915-1989), English folk revivalist
Oscar Brand (1920- ), The Can-Am folklorist
Jean Ritchie (1922- ), the mother of folk
Harry Smith (1923-1991), the anthologist
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Jefferson, N.C
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
781.620092/2, B
Library of Congress
ML3545 .D56 2010, ML3545.D56 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24049722M
ISBN 13
9780786444311
LCCN
2010002491
OCLC/WorldCat
504272544

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