| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 181 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Series |
American made music series |
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American made music series.
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| Contents |
Master and pupil -- New York -- Early recordings -- Aspen interlude and life on the road -- The blacklist -- Dyer-Bennet Records -- The lovely milleress and Stony Brook -- The odyssey of Richard Dyer-Bennet -- The legacy of Richard Dyer-Bennet |
| Summary |
In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the "Twentieth-Century Minstrel." Dyer-Bennet's approach to singing sounded almost foreign to many American listeners. The folk artist followed a musical tradition in danger of dying out. The Swede Sven Scholander was the last European proponent of minstrelsy and served as Dyer-Bennet's inspiration after the young singer traveled to Stockholm to meet him one year before Scholander's |
| Bibliography |
Includes discography (pages 137-142), bibliographical references (pages 157-171), and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dyer-Bennet, Richard.
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Folk singers -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009015241 |
| ISBN |
1604733616 (electronic bk.) |
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9781604733617 (electronic bk.) |
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