Transatlantic roots music : folk, blues, and national identities / edited by Jill Terry and Neil A. Wynn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Terry, Jill.

Wynn, Neil A.

Series:

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--United States--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Blues (Music).

United States.

Folk music--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Blues (Music)--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]

Summary:

Essays that track identity and authenticity in blues and folk music that crossed the ocean Book jacket.

Contents:

The historical and social background of transatlantic roots music revivals / Jill Terry and Neil A. Wynn

"Early morning blues" : the early years of the transatlantic connection / Paul Oliver

Dreaming up the blues : transatlantic blues scholarship in the 1950s / Christian O'Connell

American balladry and the anxiety of ancestry / Erich Nunn

Woody Guthrie at the crossroads / Will Kaufman

"It's not British music, it's American music" : Bob Dylan and Britain / John Hughes

Alan Lomax : an American ballad hunter in Great Britain / Ronald D. Cohen

Putting the blues in British blues rock / Roberta Freund Schwartz

The white man, Burdon : the Animals, race, and the American South in the British blues boom / Brian Ward

Born in Chicago : the impact of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on the British blues "network," 1964-1970 / Andrew Kellett

"When somebody take your number and use it" : the 1960s, British blues, and America's racial crossroads / Robert H. Cataliotti

Groove me : dancing to the discs of northern soul / David Sanjek

Some reflections on "Celtic" music / Duck Baker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781617032882

1617032883

9781617032899

1617032891

OCLC:

759909833