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Tag Archives: folk music
Banjo Roots and Branches Awarded American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize
in African American Studies, awards, bluegrass, folklore, music
Tagged African American Studies, African studies, award winners, awards, bluegrass, Caribbean studies, country music, folk music, folklore, music
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We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded annually for the most distinguished book-length work in English which … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Peggy Seeger classic
in biography, music, women
Tagged feminism, folk music, Jean Freedman, Peggy Seeger
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Excerpted from Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics, by Jean Freedman Peggy had written some mildly feminist songs, such as “Darling Annie,” about an equal partnership between a man and a woman, and “Nightshift,” about a woman’s … Continue reading
Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar Stephen Wade
in awards, ethnomusicology, music
Tagged awards, Beautiful Music All Around Us, ethnomusicology, folk music, Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award, Stephen Wade
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Laurie C. Matheson, Director of the Press, on the latest UIP award winner. Stephen Wade, author of The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, has been awarded the 2016 Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award from … Continue reading
Ask the Bolshevik: A Nobel confusion
in music, radical studies
Tagged Ask the Bolshevik, Bob Dylan, folk music, literature, Nobel Prize
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Dear Bolshevik, As a part of the highbrow academic publishing community, what do you think about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature? I know you’re not putting out fiction and poetry. But does giving that kind of august … Continue reading
Dylan the high-heeled marionette
in film, music
Tagged Bob Dylan, Contemporary Film Directors Series, folk music, Todd Haynes
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Excerpted from Rob White‘s book Todd Haynes. The black-and-white poise of the re-created tour in I’m Not There softens the actual color footage of these 1966 performances, shot by Pennebaker for the unreleased film Eat the Document and excerpted in … Continue reading
Bob Dylan Can’t Get In the Door
in biography, music
Tagged Bob Dylan, folk music, Jim Rooney
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Excerpted from Jim Rooney’s book In It for the Long Run. Occasionally we would make a weekend trip to New York to hang out with all the pickers down there. On arrival we would inevitably head for Izzy Young’s Folklore Center … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday: Workin’ on the Railroad
in american history, labor history, music
Tagged folk music, railroads, Throwbackist Thursday, trains
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Though another state calls itself the Crossroads of America, Illinois deserves the title as much as any of the Lower 48, for here the prairie gathers the railroads and interstates to itself before the American transportation flares out onto the Plains … Continue reading
Fiddling Bill’s beautiful music
in Appalachian studies, music
Tagged Beautiful Music All Around Us, folk music, National Recording Registry, Stephen Wade
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Word comes from the Library of Congress that twenty-five selections have been added to the National Recording Registry. While the likes of Merle Haggard and the unstoppable Gloria Gaynor will no doubt get the headlines, we at the UIP Palace of Sounds … Continue reading