The early years of folk music
Subtitle: fifty founders of the tradition
By: David Dicaire.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786444311
Subjects: Folk music -- History and criticism; Folk musicians -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Historical figures: Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723), English folk comic; title: Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), the Gaelic harpist; title: Denis O'Hempsey (1695-1807), harp magic; title: Niel Gow (1727-1807), Scottish fiddle dance master; title: Edward Bunting (1773-1843), the transcriber; title: Targjei Augundsson (1801-1872), father of Norwegian folk; title: Ostap Veresai (1803-1899), Ukrainian minstrel; title: Francis J. Child (1825-1896), the collector; title: Cecil Sharp (1859-1924), folklore revivalist; title: Part Two. American pioneers: Stephen Foster (1826-1864), father of American folk music; title: John A. Lomax (1867-1948), the ballad hunter; title: Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973), minstrel of the   Appalachians; title: Charles Seeger (1886-1979), Ammerican musicologist; title: Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), pistol packing mama; title: Helen Flanders (1890-1972), the Vermont songcatcher; title: John Jacob Niles (1892-1980), dean of American balladeers; title: Elizabeth Cotten (1893-1987), the fingerpicker; title: Clarence Ashley (1895-1967), the Blue Ridge entertainer; title: Dock Boggs (1898-1971), primeval hillbilly folk; title: Buell Kazee (1900-1976), lonesome balladeer; title: Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), folk music matriarch; title: Part three. Political connections: Joe Hill (1879-1915), the initiator; title: Burl Ives (1909-1995), the wayfarin' stranger; title: Earl Robinson (1910-1989), ballad for Americans; title: Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), bound for glory; title: Lee Hays (1914-1981), lonesome traveler; title: Josh White (1914-1969), folk-blues protest; title: Cisco Houston (1918-1961), the pure voice; title: Joe Glazer (1918-2006), labor's troubadour; title: Pete Seeger (1919- ), twentieth century folk man; title: Fred Hellerman (1927- ), the little cowboy; title: Part four. Folk around the world: Béla Bartók (1881-1945), the Hungarian ethnomusicologist; title: Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901-1978), the oud master; title: Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-1992), modern Argentine folk king; title: Luis Gonzaga (1912-1989), Forr' folk; title: Edith Fowke (1913-1996), Canadian folklorist; title: Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915-1984), urban Greek folkie; title: Amélia Rodrigues (1920-1999), voice of Portugal; title: Buddy MacMaster (1924- ), dean of Cape Breton fiddlers; title: Hamza El Din (1929-2006), Nubian folk master; title: Severino Dias di Oliveira (1930-2006), sivuca; title: Part five. The pre-folk boom era: Hobart Smith (1897-1965), Blue Ridge legacy; title: Moses Asch (1905-1986), Folkways founder; title: A.L. Lloyd (1908-1982), father of English folk; title: Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991), renaissance man; title: Alan Lomax (1915-2002), folksong revivalist; title: Ewan MacColl (1915-1989), English folk revivalist; title: Oscar Brand (1920- ), The Can-Am folklorist; title: Jean Ritchie (1922- ), the mother of folk; title: Harry Smith (1923-1991), the anthologist; title: Bibliography; title: Index.