Depression Folk : Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America /

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While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labour and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the cultural history of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Ronald D., 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular music.
Politics and culture.
Folk music.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Politique et culture > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Musique populaire > États-Unis > 1931-1940 > Histoire et critique.
Musique folklorique > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Politics and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular music > United States > 1931-1940 > History and criticism.
Folk music > United States > History and criticism.
Folk music > Political aspects > United States.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On the trail of folk songs
  • Depression's beginnings and labor songs
  • The early Roosevelt years
  • Heart of the depression
  • The New Deal survives
  • Decade ends.

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