A new history of American and Canadian folk music / Dick Weissman.
"Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissman's A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussion of the history, evolution, and current status of folk music in the United States and Canada. North American folk music achieved a high lev...
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a new look at American and Canadian folk music
- From the beginning : folksong collectors and collections and regional music styles in the United States and Canada
- Mass distribution : radio, records and pre-World War Two artists
- Early protest music : The Industrial Workers of the World, the coal miners, the cotton mills and communist and socialist agitators
- The Almanac Singers, people's songs, people's artists and the Blacklist
- The Weavers and the beginning of the folk revival
- Meanwhile, back in Canada
- Selling the music : The New York scene
- Beyond the Big Apple : the coffeehouses, folk music organizations and folk music instrument shops in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco and Toronto
- The riddle of authenticity.