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A sound history : Lawrence Gellert, Black musical protest, and White denial /
"Lawrence Gellert has long been a mysterious figure in American folk and blues studies, gaining prominence in the left-wing folk revival of the 1930s for his fieldwork in the U.S. South. A 'lean, straggly-haired New Yorker,' as Time magazine called him, Gellert was an independent musi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | American popular music (Amherst, Mass.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Hidden in plain sight: Lawrence Gellert and "Negro songs of protest"
- The roads to perdition : Lawrence Gellert's early biography and emergence
- Free radical : Lawrence Gellert's early collecting and rise to prominence
- "Songs about the White man" : Black protest and White denial
- "The great red heart of the American Revolution" : Lawrence Gellert, the Lomaxes, and the leftwing folksong revival
- Big white fog : controversy and containment in the postwar
- Scholarly rigors : propaganda or protest in the Gellert archive?
- Epilogue: Freedom songs, sixties revivalism, and the tragedy of White denial.