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Gone to the country : the New Lost City Ramblers and the folk music revival / Ray Allen.

Title
Gone to the country : the New Lost City Ramblers and the folk music revival / Ray Allen.
Author
Allen, Ray
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

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Description
x, 309 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Gone To The Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s."--Back cover.
Series Statement
Music in American life
Uniform Title
Music in American life.
Subject
  • Cohen, John, 1932-2019
  • Folk music > United States > History and criticism
  • Folk musicians > United States > Biography
  • Folk musicians > United States
  • New Lost City Ramblers
  • Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Reviving tradition in modern America -- Seeger family discovers the folk -- Yale hoots and Washington Square jams -- Ramblers take the stage, 1958-1959 -- Seeger, Cohen, and Paley perform the folk, 1959-1961 -- Paley departs and Schwarz arrives, 1961-1962 -- Seeger, Cohen and Schwarz perform the folk, 1962-1964 -- Gone to the country, 1965-1968 -- Second decade, 1969-1979 -- Thinking legacy and moving on -- Passing for traditional and rethinking folk revivalism.
ISBN
  • 9780252035609 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252035607 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252077470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252077474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010015369
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library