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African American folksong and American cultural politics : the Lawrence Gellert story /
In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed-and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | American folk music and musicians ;
19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The cultural front and the Negro : the political context of emergence for Lawrence Gellert
- 2. The early years : family roots and influences, 1898-1920
- 3. The 1920s : trying to find oneself
- 4. The early 1930s : a star and a genre are born
- 5. Lead Belly and the Lomaxes, 1934-1936
- 6. Negro songs of protest and protest in "Negro" songs
- 7. The WPA theater, Writers' Projects, and World War II
- 8. The 1950s : downplay and disaster
- 9. The 1960s : rebuffed and rediscovered
- 10. The 1970s : odd man out
- Epilogue to a life.