African American folksong and American cultural politics : the Lawrence Gellert story
Bruce M. Conforth
Bok · Engelsk · 2013
| Utgitt | Lanham : Scarecrow Press , 2013
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| Omfang | 265 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Includes bibliographical references and index.. - The cultural front and the Negro : the political context of emergence for Lawrence Gellert ; The early years : family roots and influences, 1898-1920 ; The 1920s : trying to find oneself ; The early 1930s : a star and a genre are born ; Lead Belly and the Lomaxes, 1934-1936 ; Negro songs of protest and protest in "Negro" songs ; The WPA theater, Writers' Projects, and World War II ; The 1950s : downplay and disaster ; The 1960s : rebuffed and rediscovered ; The 1970s : odd man out ; Epilogue to a life.. - 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.. - 494 kr
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| ISBN | 9780810884885 : 494 kr
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| Hylleplass | 781.624 CON
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