| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages) : music |
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Center for the Study of Southern Culture series |
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Center for the Study of Southern Culture series.
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| Contents |
Impact of recording technology on the British folksong revival / Kenneth S. Goldstein -- Electric folk music in Britain / A.L. Lloyd -- How the fiddler got on the roof / Mark Slobin -- Slovenian style in Milwaukee / Charles Keil -- Ethnic and popular style in America / Richard Spottswood -- New directions in sacred harp singing / Doris J. Dyen -- Gospel goes uptown : White gospel music, 1945-1955 / Charles K. Wolfe -- Secularization of Black gospel music / Anthony Heilbut -- Honky tonk : the music of the southern working class / Bill C. Malone -- Commercialization and tradition in the Nashville sound / William Ivey -- Charles Ives : Victorian gentleman or American folk hero? / Vivian Perlis -- Myths about Black folk music / Dena J. Epstein -- Blues and modern sound : past, present, and future / David Evans -- Black music : its roots, its popularity, its commercial prostitution / Amiri Baraka -- Folk, popular, jazz, and classical elements in New Orleans / Robert Palmer |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection range from the impact of technology on the British folksong revival to regional characteristics of early rock and roll in New Orleans. Attention is given to the blues, Sacred Harp singing, ethnic music, both black and white gospel, country music, and the polka. Other essays consider the relationship of music from the Yiddish-American theater with that of Broadway, the wide influence and commercialization of black music in today's popular music, myths about early black music, and Charles Ives as folk hero. Contributors include Amiri Baraka, Doris J. Dyen, Dena J.E |
| Notes |
Based on lectures presented at a conference at the University of Mississippi, Apr. 17-19, 1980 |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Folk music -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- General.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional.
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Folk music
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Volksmusik
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Volkstümliche Musik
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ferris, William R., editor.
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Hart, Mary L., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781617030994 |
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1617030996 |
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1283031183 |
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9781283031189 |
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9786613031181 |
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6613031186 |
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