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• catalog abstract "When We Were Good traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the sixties: early nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy; the Jewish entertainment and political cultures of New York in the 1930s; the Almanac singers and the wartime crises of the 1940s; the watershed record album Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music; and finally the cold-war reactionism of the 1950s that drove the folksong movement, just as Pete Seeger and the Weavers were putting "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Goodnight, Irene" on the Hit Parade, into a children's underground of schools, summer camps, and colleges, planting the seeds of the folk revival to come. The book is not so much a history as a study of the cultural process itself, what the author calls the dreamwork of history. Cantwell shows how a body of music once enlisted on behalf of the labor movement antifascism, New Deal recovery efforts, and many other progressive causes of the 1930s was refashioned as an instrument of self-discovery, even as it found new agenda and styles in the peace, civil rights, and beat movements. At Washington Square and the Newport Folk Festival, on college campuses and in concert halls across the country, the folk revival gave voice to the generational tidal wave of postwar youth, going back to the basics and trying to be very, very good. In this capacious analysis of the ideologies, traditions, and personalities that created an extraordinary moment in American popular culture, Cantwell explores the idea of folk at the deepest level. Taking up some of the more obdurate problems in cultural studies - racial identity, art and politics, regional allegiances, class differences - he shows how the folk revival was a search for authentic democracy, with compelling lessons for our own time.".
• catalog contributor b8894924.
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-402) and index.".
• catalog description "Prologue: Tom Dooley -- History of a Song -- 1. We Are the Folk -- Backgrounds of the Revival -- 2. The New Minstrelsy -- Jim Crow and John Henry -- 3. Ballad for Americans -- The Search for a People's Opera -- 4. Ramblin' Round Your City -- The Almanac Singers -- 5. Wasn't That a Time -- Folk Music and the Cold War -- 6. Smith's Memory Theater -- The Great Folkways Anthology -- 7. He Shall Overcome -- Pete Seeger -- 8. Happy Campers -- The Children's Underground -- 9. Lady and the Tramp -- Joan Baez and Bob Dylan -- 10. Nobles, Patrons, Patriots, Reds -- Democracy and Revivalism.".
• catalog description "When We Were Good traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the sixties: early nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy; the Jewish entertainment and political cultures of New York in the 1930s; the Almanac singers and the wartime crises of the 1940s; the watershed record album Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music; and finally the cold-war reactionism of the 1950s that drove the folksong movement, just as Pete Seeger and the Weavers were putting "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Goodnight, Irene" on the Hit Parade, into a children's underground of schools, summer camps, and colleges, planting the seeds of the folk revival to come. The book is not so much a history as a study of the cultural process itself, what the author calls the dreamwork of history. Cantwell shows how a body of music once enlisted on behalf of the labor movement antifascism, New Deal recovery efforts, and many other progressive causes of the 1930s was refashioned as an instrument of self-discovery, even as it found new agenda and styles in the peace, civil rights, and beat movements. At Washington Square and the Newport Folk Festival, on college campuses and in concert halls across the country, the folk revival gave voice to the generational tidal wave of postwar youth, going back to the basics and trying to be very, very good. In this capacious analysis of the ideologies, traditions, and personalities that created an extraordinary moment in American popular culture, Cantwell explores the idea of folk at the deepest level. Taking up some of the more obdurate problems in cultural studies - racial identity, art and politics, regional allegiances, class differences - he shows how the folk revival was a search for authentic democracy, with compelling lessons for our own time.".
• catalog extent "viii, 412 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "When we were good.".
• catalog identifier "0674951328 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "When we were good.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "When we were good.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "781.62/13/00904 20".
• catalog subject "Folk music United States History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Folk songs, English United States History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "ML3551 .C36 1996".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Tom Dooley -- History of a Song -- 1. We Are the Folk -- Backgrounds of the Revival -- 2. The New Minstrelsy -- Jim Crow and John Henry -- 3. Ballad for Americans -- The Search for a People's Opera -- 4. Ramblin' Round Your City -- The Almanac Singers -- 5. Wasn't That a Time -- Folk Music and the Cold War -- 6. Smith's Memory Theater -- The Great Folkways Anthology -- 7. He Shall Overcome -- Pete Seeger -- 8. Happy Campers -- The Children's Underground -- 9. Lady and the Tramp -- Joan Baez and Bob Dylan -- 10. Nobles, Patrons, Patriots, Reds -- Democracy and Revivalism.".
• catalog title "When we were good : the folk revival / Robert Cantwell.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".