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Autore |
Jenkins Paul O |
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Titolo |
Richard Dyer-Bennet [[electronic resource] ] : the last minstrel / / Paul O. Jenkins ; foreword by Bonnie Dyer-Bennet ; afterword by Andrew Schulman |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-34134-4 |
9786613341341 |
1-60473-361-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Collana |
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American made music series |
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Soggetti |
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Folk singers - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes discography (p. 137-142), bibliographical references (p. 157-171), and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. Master and Pupil; CHAPTER 2. New York; CHAPTER 3. Early Recordings; CHAPTER 4. Aspen Interlude and Life on the Road; CHAPTER 5. The Blacklist; CHAPTER 6. Dyer-Bennet Records; CHAPTER 7. The Lovely Milleress and Stony Brook; CHAPTER 8. The Odyssey of Richard Dyer-Bennet; CHAPTER 9. The Legacy of Richard Dyer-Bennet; AFTERWORD: Richard Dyer-Bennet as Guitarist; DISCOGRAPHY; REPERTOIRE; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the 1940's and '50's, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the ""Twentieth-Century Minstrel."" Dyer-Bennet's approach to singing sounded almost foreign to many American listeners. The folk artist followed a musical tradition in danger of dying out. The Swede Sven Scholander was the last European proponent of minstrelsy and served as Dyer-Bennet's inspiration after the young singer traveled to Stockholm to meet him one year before Scholander' |
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