American Folk Music as Tactical Media : : From the Hootenanny to the People's Microphone / / Henry Adam Svec.

American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated. This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of commu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Recursions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 10 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Alan Lomax's Deep Rivers of Digitality
  • 2. Pete Seeger's Time-Biased Tactics
  • 3. Bob Dylan's Noisy Faces
  • 4. A Folk Approach to Imaginary Media
  • 5. Another Authentic Folk Is Possible
  • 6. American Folk Music as Strategic Media
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Lyrical Credits
  • References
  • Index