When We Were Good: The Folk Revival

by Robert S. Cantwell

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In 1938, in Pick Britches Valley, North Carolina, a young mountaineer sang a ballad about an infamous murder for a visiting singer and collector of folk songs. Twenty years later, nearly every American within range of a radio was hearing about Tom Dooley from the Kingston Trio - and a folk tradition dating back to the days of the minstrel show had intersected with the emergent youth culture of the late-50s. How did Tom Dooley get from Pick Britches...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674951328

ISBN13:9780674951327

Release Date:April 1996

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:412 Pages

Weight:1.78 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

20th Century Arts, Music & Photography Country Ethnic & International Folk & Traditional History History & Criticism Music Musical Genres Performing Arts Theory, Composition & Performance

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