Folk Music: The Basics

Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. It is an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make folk music an enduring and well-loved musical style.

Focusing on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music - traditional, local performers and professional collectors - this text explores the advent of professional performers in the twentieth century during the so-called 'folk revival'.

Autorentext

Ronald Cohen is Emeritus Professor of History at Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest. He is the author of several books on traditional music, including Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American*Society, 1940-1970 (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2002), and the editor of Alan Lomax: Selected Writings,*1934-1997 (Routledge, 2003).

Klappentext

Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. It is an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make folk music an enduring and well-loved musical style.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Folk music in the British Isles and the U.S. in the 19th centuryChapter 2: This chapter will discuss the advent of collecting folk music in the 19th century and into the 20th century, with some reference to similar collecting in Europe.Chapter. 3: This chapter will cover the spread of folk festivals, beginning in the late 19th century and escalating by the 1930s.Chapter 4: The development of commercial folk music from the 1940s--1960sChapter 5: The complex story of folk music since the 1960sBibliography, discography, videography