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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Folk Revival"”.
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'Scotland the Real':the representation of traditional music in Scottish tourism
… and traditional music events (including folk festivals, tourist shows and sessions). It argues that an explicit concern with the “real” has been a recurrent, although contested, discursive trope in such representations. In particular, the thesis demonstrates how paradigmatic shifts in …
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Music as a birthright: Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and participatory music making in the twenty-first century
The Old Town School of Folk Music (OTSFM), founded in 1957 on Chicago’s North Side, has over the course of its history developed pedagogies and social practices to transform its urban, cosmopolitan students from music consumers to music participants. By the 2000s, it had become the largest …
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Desolation Road
… incorporating the language and sound of the folk revival. Structurally, Desolation Road reinterprets Dylan’s song by transforming each of the ten verses into novel chapters. An obscure character from the first verse, Lady, becomes the principal character in the parody. As a thoroughly …
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Psychedelic music in San Francisco : style, context, and evolution
… psychedelic music took its ideology from the folk music revival of the 1950s, which many of its most important practitioners had participated in, including Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and members of the Jefferson Airplane. The …
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The past in the present : a study of some aspects of the politics of music in Belfast
… - the politics of music, and more specifically folk music and the political developments relating to the rebel song tradition which occurred in that domain during my period of fieldwork, directed the main focus of study to Catholic working class areas of the city. While the notion of community …
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"""Happ'ly-ever-aftering"": Changing social and industry conventions in Hollywood musical adaptations, 1960-75"
… and Bye Bye Birdie, politics, feminism, and the folk revival in The Sound of Music, New Hollywood and the sexual revolution in Camelot and Paint Your Wagon, and discussion of Cabaret as an experimental, adult musical that can be seen as the culmination of the decade. An in-depth study of the …
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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival
… Finally, how was the genesis for the klezmer revival related to the social and cultural climate of its time? I argue that Jewish folk musicians revived klezmer music in the 1970s as a manifestation of both an existential search for authenticity, carrying over from the 1960s counterculture, and …