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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.
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.
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
David King Dunaway is the author and editor of eight volumes of
history including How Can I Keep From Singing: The Ballad of Pete
Seeger, The Pete Seeger Discography, and Oral History: An
Interdisciplinary Anthology. His numerous honors include the 2010
Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi award from the Oral History Association.
He serves as professor of English at the University of New Mexico
and distinguished professor
of broadcasting at San Francisco State University.
Molly Beer is the author of numerous essays and articles on culture
and culture clash. She has taught writing at the University of New
Mexico and at Colgate University as an Olive B. O'Connor creative
writing fellow.
"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 American
Folk 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 Music Revival 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
"I've thoroughly enjoyed this book...It captures vividly the spirit
of the musical movement that became so powerful in the 1960s."
--Allan M. Winkler, Times Higher Education
"Weaves together historical narrative and excerpts of these
interviews to fashion an insightful overview of the American folk
music movement." --Sound Historian
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