The Early Years of Folk Music: Fifty Founders of the Tradition

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The Early Years of Folk Music: Fifty Founders of the Tradition retraces the deep roots of the genre from the time of the minstrels to the American folk revival of the 1960s. It includes five sections: Historical Figures, American Pioneers, Political Connections, Folk Around the World and the Pre-Folk Boom Era.  Musicians and collectors are featured,…

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The Early Years of Folk Music: Fifty Founders of the Tradition retraces the deep roots of the genre from the time of the minstrels to the American folk revival of the 1960s. It includes five sections: Historical Figures, American Pioneers, Political Connections, Folk Around the World and the Pre-Folk Boom Era.  Musicians and collectors are featured, as well as figures from the international folk scene displaying the style’s deep roots tracing the development of a simple genre into a force for political and social change.  Standouts such as Pete Seeger, Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie set the stage of the explosion that would follow.

Weight .34 kg
Dimensions 15.24 × 1.28 × 22.86 cm

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