ISBN:
9781496837936
,
9781628462159
Language:
English
Pages:
169 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
29 cm
Series Statement:
American made music series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cohen, Ronald D., 1940- author Selling folk music
DDC:
781.62/13009
Keywords:
Folk music History and criticism
;
Popular music History and criticism
;
Music trade History
;
Sheet music History
;
Folk music Pictorial works
;
Popular music Pictorial works
;
Music trade Pictorial works
;
Sheet music Pictorial works
Abstract:
"Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal the process of how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of American music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has been marketed as America's music. Selling Folk Music presents the public face of folk music in the United States through its commercial promotion and presentation through much of the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964 hootenanny craze, for example, spawned such items as a candy bar, pinball machine, bath powder, paper dolls, Halloween costumes, and beach towels. The almost five hundred images in Selling Folk Music present a new way to catalog the history of folk music while highlighting the transformative nature of the genre. Following the detailed introduction on the history of folk music, illustrations from commercial products make up the bulk of the work, presenting a colorful, complex history of folk music."-- $c Provided by publisher
Note:
"This book is partially meant to be a visual companion to Ronald D. Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and his Folk Music: The Basics (New York: Routledge, 2006)"--Introduction
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