Selling Folk Music (eBook)

An Illustrated History

David Bonner, Ronald D. Cohen (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017 | EPUB Single
176 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-62674-584-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of American music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has been marketed as America's music. Selling Folk Music presents the public face of folk music in the United States via its commercial promotion and presentation throughout the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964 hootenanny craze, for example, spawned such items as a candy bar, pinball machine, bath powder, paper dolls, Halloween costumes, and beach towels. The almost five hundred images in Selling Folk Music present a new way to catalog the history of folk music while highlighting the transformative nature of the genre. Following the detailed introduction on the history of folk music, illustrations from commercial products make up the bulk of the work, presenting a colorful, complex history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Zusatzinfo: 497 color illustrations; 1 map; 2 tables
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Alan Lomax • Bluegrass • Blues • Bob Dylan • Burl Ives • calypsos • Country and Western • Day-O • Ethnic • Famous Cowboy Songs and Mountain Ballads • Folk music • Folk-Rock • Gene Autry • gospel tunes • Harry Belafonte • hootenanny • hootenanny craze • Joan Baez • John A. Lomax • Josh White • labor and political songs • minstrel tunes • Music History • Pete Seeger • pop folk • popular culture • Ronald D. Cohen • Sea shanties • Sea Songs • Spirituals • The American Songbag • The Midnight Special • The Times They Are a-Changin’ • Victorian parlor songs • weavers • Woody Guthrie
• ISBN-10: 1-62674-584-6 / 1626745846
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62674-584-1 / 9781626745841