Title: Roots music /
Authors: DeWitt, Mark F.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Folk music United States History and criticism; Popular music United States History and criticism; Ethnicity in music.; Music and race.; Ethnomusicology.
Abstract: The eight volumes in this series span the range of the world's popular music genres from rap, hip hop, soul and jazz, to roots, electronica, dance and club music. Each volume editor has contributed an introductory essay which constitutes a broad overview of the specific group of genres.
Contents: Roots, deconstructed. The popular marketing of "old ballads" : the ballad revival and eighteenth-century antiquarianism reconsidered / Dianne Dugaw ; Another history of bluegrass : the segregation of popular music in the United States, 1820-1900 / Allen Farmelo ; Analogies and differences in African-American musical cultures across the hemisphere : interpretive models and research strategies / Gerhard Kubik ; Love and theft : the racial unconscious of blackface minstrelsy / Eric Lott ; That wild mercury sound : Bob Dylan and the illusion of American culture / Barry Shank --