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781.624 CON

Conforth, Bruce M. 1950-

African American folksong and American cultural politics : the Lawrence Gellert story / Bruce M. Conforth . - Lanham : Scarecrow Press , 2013

265 s.

(American folk music and musicians series)

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

Gellert, Lawrence , 1898-1979
Viser
Afro-amerikanere
Blues
Folk
Negro spirituals
Protestsanger

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