Rainbow quest: the folk music revival and American society, 1940-1970
ISBN: 9781558493469
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / University of Massachusetts Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Music & Musicology;

This study reconstructs the history of the folk-music revival in the States, tracing its origins to the early decades of the 20th century. Drawing on scores of interviews and numerous manuscript collections, as well as his own extensive files, Cohen shows how a broad range of traditions - from hillbilly, gospel, blues and sea shanties to cowboy, ethnic and political-protest music - all contributed to the genre known as folk.

Ronald D. Cohen has taught since 1970 at Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, where he is a professor of history

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