The never-ending revival : Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance /
"In the late 1950s through the 1960s, the folk music revival pervaded the mainstream music industry, with artists such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez singing historically or politically informed ballads based on musical forms from Appalachia and the South. In the twenty-first century, the revival c...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Illinois Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Where have all the folkies gone?
- Folklore, fakelore, and poplore : from the creation of the folk to the great boom and beyond
- From Club 47 to Union Grove : the birth of Rounder Records
- Surrealistic banjos and zydeco rhythms : Rounder's broad aesthetic
- Toward an authenticity of self : old-time music in the modern world
- Like politics in Chicago : the Folk Alliance strives for unity
- Consolidation blues : folk music in contemporary markets
- Conclusion. Gone to the Internet, everyone.