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Millennium Folk: American Folk Music since the Sixties
Thomas R. Gruning
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Description for Millennium Folk: American Folk Music since the Sixties
Hardcover. An ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s, this work examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering the perspectives of fans, performers, marketers, and others, it takes on some of the folk community's stickiest issues. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering the perspectives of fans, performers, marketers, and others, Thomas Gruning takes on some of the folk community's stickiest issues, many of which have roots extending to the previous folk heyday in the 1960s - and sometimes to even more distant eras. Today, such issues are most evident in the clash between the folk community's entrepreneurial, tech-savvy present and its idealized memory of origins in some rural, egalitarian, blue-collar past. Whose voice gets heard in the folk community ... Read more
This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering the perspectives of fans, performers, marketers, and others, Thomas Gruning takes on some of the folk community's stickiest issues, many of which have roots extending to the previous folk heyday in the 1960s - and sometimes to even more distant eras. Today, such issues are most evident in the clash between the folk community's entrepreneurial, tech-savvy present and its idealized memory of origins in some rural, egalitarian, blue-collar past. Whose voice gets heard in the folk community ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820328294
SKU
V9780820328294
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About Thomas R. Gruning
Thomas Gruning is an independent ethnomusicologist living in Middleburgh, New York. He has been active in folk music for most of his adult life as a songwriter, composer, and musician.
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