Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal the process of how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of ...
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Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal the process of how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of American music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has been marketed as America's music. Selling Folk Music presents the public face of folk music in the United States through its commercial promotion and presentation through much of the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964 hootenanny craze, for example, spawned such items as a candy bar, pinball machine, bath powder, paper dolls, Halloween costumes, and beach towels. The almost five hundred images in Selling Folk Music present a new way to catalog the history of folk music while highlighting the transformative nature of the genre. Following the detailed introduction on the history of folk music, illustrations from commercial products make up the bulk of the work, presenting a colorful, complex history of folk music.
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Add this copy of Selling Folk Music: an Illustrated History (American to cart. $46.99, very good condition, Sold by KeepsBooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wilmington, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by University Press of Mississippi.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
Add this copy of Selling Folk Music: an Illustrated History (American to cart. $66.00, very good condition, Sold by RPL Library Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by University Press of Mississippi.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. Size: 8 3/4" x 11 1/4"; FINE / NO DUST JACKET. 169 pp. Most pages are collections of full color reproductions of posters, sheet music and book covers, concert programs, record labels, etc. Pages are pristine: no marks or damage. Brown endpaper at the back of the book has small stain on front edge. Boards covered in illustrated, semi-glossy paper. Back cover is slightly rubbed (small grey smudges), but otherwise in like-new condition: corners and top/tail of spine are not bumped, no other marks. Includes copy of original press release.
Add this copy of Selling Folk Music: an Illustrated History (American to cart. $89.94, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by University Press of Mississipp.
