ISBN: 9780674951327

"When We Were Good" traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the sixties from early nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy; the Jewish entertainment and poli… Mehr…

"When We Were Good" traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the sixties from early nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy; the Jewish entertainment and political cultures of New York in the 1930s; the Almanac singers and the wartime crises of the 1940s; the watershed record album "Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music"; and finally to the cold-war reactionism of the 1950s. This drove the folk-song movement, just as Pete Seeger and the Weavers were putting "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Goodnight, Irene" on the Hit Parade, into a children's underground of schools, summer camps, and colleges, planting the seeds of the folk revival to come. The book is not so much a history as a study of the cultural process itself, what the author calls the dreamwork of history. Cantwell shows how a body of music once enlisted on behalf of the labor movement, antifascism, New Deal recovery efforts, and many other progressive causes of the 1930s was refashioned as an instrument of self-discovery, even as it found a new politics and cultural style in the peace, civil rights, and beat movements. In Washington Square and the Newport Folk Festival, on college campuses and in concert halls across the country, the folk revival gave voice to the generational tidal wave of postwar youth, going back to the basics and trying to be very, very good. In this capacious analysis of the ideologies, traditions, and personalities that created an extraordinary moment in American popular culture, Cantwell explores the idea of folk at the deepest level. Taking up some of the more obdurate problems in cultural studies--racial identity, art and politics, regional allegiances, class differences--he shows how the folk revival was a search for authentic democracy, with compelling lessons for our own time. Media >, [PU: Harvard University Press]<

1996, ISBN: 0674951328

[EAN: 9780674951327], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Harvard University Press], AMERICAN MUSIC, FOLK, Jacket, Clean & tight copy, unread in AS NEW condition; jacket has very slight shelfwear & … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780674951327], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Harvard University Press], AMERICAN MUSIC, FOLK, Jacket, Clean & tight copy, unread in AS NEW condition; jacket has very slight shelfwear & light fading on spine, o/w quite presentable what with R. Crumb portrait of Mississippi John Hurt gracing the cover. "WHEN WE WERE GOOD traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the sixties: early 19th-century blackface minstrelsy; the Jewish entertainment and political cultures of New York in the 1930s; the Almanac Singers and the wartime crises of the 1940s; the watershed record album Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music; and finally the cold-war reactionism of the 1950s that drove the folksong movement---just as Pete Seeger and the Weavers were putting 'On Top of Old Smokey' and 'Goodnight, Irene' on the Hit Parade---into a children's underground of schools, summer camps and colleges, planting the seeds of the folk revival to come."[]"Cantwell rewrites history with music, and vice versa. Diffusing a perfectly sketched generic, white, middle-class, suburban, postwar upbringing across the whole spectrum of American legend and experience, he pours old wine into a cruet that suddenly gleams with transparency. As he begins to trace the roles played by his characters---those figures dancing on the surface of 'Tom Dooley' or hiding in its grooves---he makes the wine new."---Greil Marcus. Pristine copy, unmarked & quite presentable., Books<

1996, ISBN: 9780674951327

[ED: OHlwd. mit OU], [PU: Harvard University Press], The folk revival gr.8, VIII, 412 S., zahlreiche Abb. PayPal on request. Versand von Zürich möglich und günstiger. Zahlung mit CH- Einz… Mehr…

[ED: OHlwd. mit OU], [PU: Harvard University Press], The folk revival gr.8, VIII, 412 S., zahlreiche Abb. PayPal on request. Versand von Zürich möglich und günstiger. Zahlung mit CH- Einzahlungsschein möglich. Besuchen Sie uns auf dem Riesenflohmarkt Karlshorster Rennbahn in Berlin am 7. und 8. Mai 2022 und 4. und 5. Juni 2022 und auf der Leipziger Buchmesse März 2023., DE, [SC: 4.50], leicht angestossen, mit Anstreichungen, gewerbliches Angebot, [PU: Cambridge], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<

1996, ISBN: 0674951328

[EAN: 9780674951327], [SC: 4.99], [PU: Harvard University Press Cambridge], MUSIK*MUSIKGESCHICHTEAMERIKAENGLISCH/ ENGLISH, Jacket, gr.8°, VIII, 412 S., zahlreiche Abb. OHlwd. mit OU leich… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780674951327], [SC: 4.99], [PU: Harvard University Press Cambridge], MUSIK*MUSIKGESCHICHTEAMERIKAENGLISCH/ ENGLISH, Jacket, gr.8°, VIII, 412 S., zahlreiche Abb. OHlwd. mit OU leicht angestossen, mit Anstreichungen Schlagworte: Musik*MusikgeschichteAmerikaEnglisch/ english PayPal on request. Versand von Zürich möglich und günstiger. Zahlung mit CH- Einzahlungsschein möglich. Besuchen Sie uns auf dem Riesenflohmarkt Karlshorster Rennbahn in Berlin am 7. und 8. Mai 2022 und 4. und 5. Juni 2022 und auf der Leipziger Buchmesse März 2023., Books<