Folk Music and Modern Sound - William Ferris - Libros - University Press of Mississippi - 9781604731675 - 30 de octubre de 2008
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The essays in this collection range from the impact of technology on the British folksong revival to regional characteristics of early rock and roll in New Orleans. Attention is given to the blues, Sacred Harp singing, ethnic music, both black and white gospel, country music, and the polka.


Marc Notes: A collection of essays based on lectures presented at a conference, Folk music and modern sound, that was held at the Univeristy of Mississippi on April 17-19, 1980.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Flap: Essays by Amiri Baraka, David Evans, Bill C. Malone, Robert Palmer, Richard Spottswood, Charles K. Wolfe, and morePublisher Marketing: The essays in this collection range from the impact of technology on the British folksong revival to regional characteristics of early rock and roll in New Orleans. Attention is given to the blues, Sacred Harp singing, ethnic music, both black and white gospel, country music, and the polka. Other essays consider the relationship of music from the Yiddish-American theater with that of Broadway, the wide influence and commercialization of black music in today's popular music, myths about early black music, and Charles Ives as folk hero. Contributors include Amiri Baraka, Doris J. Dyen, Dena J. Epstein, David Evans, Kenneth S. Goldstein, Anthony Heilbut, William Ivey, Charles Keil, A. L. Lloyd, Bill C. Malone, Robert Palmer, Vivian Perlis, Mark Slobin, Richard Spottswood, and Charles K. Wolfe.

Contributor Bio:  Ferris, William William Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris coedited the "Encyclopedia of Southern Culture" and is the author of "Blues from the Delta". In 1991, "Rolling Stone" magazine named him among the top ten professors in the United States.

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Publicado 30 de octubre de 2008
ISBN13 9781604731675
Editores University Press of Mississippi
Páginas 215
Dimensiones 142 × 216 × 16 mm   ·   332 g
Lengua Inglés  
Editor Ferris, William
Editor Hart, Mary L.

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