In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s,
Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic
history of folk's midcentury resurgence that juxtaposes the related but
distinct revivals that took place in the United States and Great
Britain.
After setting the stage with the work of music
collectors in the nineteenth century, the authors explore the so-called
recovery of folk music practices and performers by Alan Lomax and
others, including journeys to and within the British Isles that allowed
artists and folk music advocates to absorb native forms and facilitate
the music's transatlantic exchange. Cohen and Donaldson place the
musical and cultural connections of the twin revivals within the
decade's social and musical milieu and grapple with the performers'
leftist political agendas and artistic challenges, including the fierce
debates over "authenticity" in practice and repertoire that erupted when
artists like Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio carried folk into
the popular music mainstream.
From work songs to skiffle, from the Weavers in Greenwich Village to Burl Ives on the BBC, Roots of the Revival
offers a frank and wide-ranging consideration of a time, a movement,
and a transformative period in American and British pop culture.
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