262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant scholarship, it will focus on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music: traditional, local performers; professional collectors; and the advent of professional performers in the twentieth century during the... Read more
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
Biography
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).
