| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 220 pages). |
|
text file |
| Series |
American popular music
|
|
American popular music (Amherst, Mass.)
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Hidden in plain sight: Lawrence Gellert and "Negro songs of protest" -- The roads to perdition : Lawrence Gellert's early biography and emergence -- Free radical : Lawrence Gellert's early collecting and rise to prominence -- "Songs about the White man" : Black protest and White denial -- "The great red heart of the American Revolution" : Lawrence Gellert, the Lomaxes, and the leftwing folksong revival -- Big white fog : controversy and containment in the postwar -- Scholarly rigors : propaganda or protest in the Gellert archive? -- Epilogue: Freedom songs, sixties revivalism, and the tragedy of White denial. |
| Summary |
"Lawrence Gellert has long been a mysterious figure in American folk and blues studies, gaining prominence in the left-wing folk revival of the 1930s for his fieldwork in the U.S. South. A 'lean, straggly-haired New Yorker,' as Time magazine called him, Gellert was an independent music collector, without formal training, credentials, or affiliation. At a time of institutionalized suppression, he worked to introduce white audiences to a tradition of black musical protest that had been denied and overlooked by prior white collectors. By the folk and blues revival of the 1960s, however, when his work would again seem apt in the context of the civil rights movement, Gellert and his collection of Negro Songs of Protest were a conspicuous absence. A few leading figures in the revival defamed Gellert as a fraud, dismissing his archive of black vernacular protest as a fabrication-an example of left-wing propaganda and white interference. A Sound History is the story of an individual life, an excavation of African American musical resistance and dominant white historiography, and a cultural history of radical possibility and reversal in the defining middle decades of the U.S. twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979.
|
|
Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979. |
|
Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979. |
|
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
|
|
African Americans -- Music. |
|
Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.
|
|
Folk music. |
|
United States. |
|
Protest songs -- United States -- History and criticism.
|
|
Protest songs. |
|
Music -- Historiography.
|
|
Music -- Historiography. |
|
African Americans -- Historiography.
|
|
African Americans -- Historiography. |
|
Music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Music -- Political aspects. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music. |
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Added Title |
Lawrence Gellert, Black musical protest, and White denial |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Garabedian, Steven P. Sound history : Lawrence Gellert, Black musical protest, and white denial. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020] 9781625345295 1625345291 9781625345301 1625345305 (DLC) 2020019282 (OCoLC)1154507103 |
| ISBN |
9781613767795 (electronic book) |
|
161376779X (electronic book) |
|
9781625345295 (hardcover) |
|
1625345291 (hardcover) |
|
9781625345301 (paperback) |
|
1625345305 (paperback) |
|
