Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (eBook, ePUB)

America changed through music
Redaktion: Hair, Ross; Smith, Thomas Ruys

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923-1991). More than just a ground-breaking collection of old recordings, the Anthology was itself a kind of performance on the part of its creator. Over the six decades of its existence, however, it has continued to exert considerable influence on generations of musicians, artists, and writers. It has been credited with inspiring the North American folk revival and with profoundly influencing Bob Dylan. This is the first book devoted to such a vital piece of the large and complex story of American music and its enduring value in American life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317123576
• Artikelnr.: 47386865

Autorenporträt

Ross Hair is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Ronald Johnson's Modernist Collage Poetry (2010) and Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present (2016). His essays on modern American and British poetry have appeared in, among other publications, the Journal of Modern Literature, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Thomas Ruys Smith is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain (2007), and Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century (2011). He is also the editor of Blacklegs, Card Sharps and Confidence Men: Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories (2010), and, with Sarah Churchwell, Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers, from Charlotte Temple to The Kite Runner (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introductions
1 Introduction: America changed through music
Ross Hair and Thomas Ruys Smith
2 "Spun in a wheel of vertigo": Harry Smith and the magic of history
Geoff Ward
3 Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: the critical heritage
Rory Crutchfield
Interlude 1. "This unknown body of Americana": Alan Lomax's List of
American Folk Songs on Commercial Records and the Anthology of American
Folk Music
Nathan Salsburg
Part II "The whole bizarre package"
4 Harry Smith, the Anthology, and the artist as collector
Justin Parks
5 Collage, politics, and narrative approaches to Harry Smith's Anthology of
American Folk Music
Dan Blim
6 Harry Smith: collecting thought-forms and programming the aerial computer
R. Bruce Elder
Part III Deep cuts
7 "Fatal Flower Garden": the execution of a Child ballad
Robin Purves
8 Smith's Amnesia Theater: "Moonshiner's Dance" in Minnesota
Kurt Gegenhuber
9 Dead Presidents: "Charles Guiteau," "White House Blues," and the
histories of Smithville
Thomas Ruys Smith
Interlude 2. How weird is folk?
Sharron Kraus
Part IV "Other lives"
10 "Volk Roots and Hiart Leaves": John Fahey and the Anthology of American
Folk Music
Ross Hair
11 Recycling the South: contemporary literature and the Anthology of
American Folk Music
Phil Langran
12 The "other lives" of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Paola Ferrero
Afterword
Rani Singh