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Richard Dyer-Bennet : the last minstrel /
In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the "Twentieth-Century Minstrel." Dyer-Bennet's approach to singin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
c2010.
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| Colección: | American made music series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the "Twentieth-Century Minstrel." Dyer-Bennet's approach to singing sounded almost foreign to many American listeners. The folk artist followed a musical tradition in danger of dying out. The Swede Sven Scholander was the last European proponent of minstrelsy and served as Dyer-Bennet's inspiration after the young singer traveled to Stockholm to meet him one year before Scholander's |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 181 p., [8] p. of plates ). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes discography (p. 137-142), bibliographical references (p. 168-171), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781496800466 149680046X 9781604733617 1604733616 |