Rainbow Quest,9781558493483

Rainbow Quest

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ISBN13: 9781558493483
ISBN10: 1558493484
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary

For a brief period from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, folk music captured a mass audience in the United States, as college students and others swarmed to concerts by the likes of Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. In this comprehensive study, Ronald D. Cohen reconstructs the history of this singular cultural moment, tracing its origins to the early decades of the twentieth century.

Drawing on scores of interviews and numerous manuscript collections, as well as his own extensive files, Cohen shows how a broad range of traditions -- from hillbilly, gospel, blues, and sea shanties to cowboy, ethnic, and political protest music -- all contributed to the genre known as folk. He documents the crucial work of John Lomax and other collectors who, with the assistance of recording companies, preserved and distributed folk music in the 1920s. During the 1930s and 1940s, the emergence of left-wing politics and the rise of the commercial music marketplace helped to stimulate wider interest in folk music. Stars emerged, such as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete

Author Biography

Ronald D. Cohen has taught since 1970 at Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, where he is a professor of history

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Prologue: Summer 1953 3(5)
Roots of the Revival
8(31)
People's Songs, Popular Folk, and the Later 1940s
39(28)
The Weavers and the Red Scare, 1950--1954
67(26)
Stirrings of the Revival, 1955--1957
93(32)
The Kingston Trio and the Emerging Revival, 1958--1959
125(32)
Into the Heart of the Revival, 1960--1962
157(37)
The Revival's Peak, 1963--1964
194(35)
Folk's Transformation, 1965--1966
229(34)
The 1960s End (But Not Folk Music)
263(28)
Notes 291(36)
Index 327

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