Freedom in the air : song movements of the sixties / by Josh Dunson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunson, Josh, 1941- author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Little new world paperbacks ; LNW-7.

Little new world paperbacks ; LNW-7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Civil rights.

Working class--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Working class.

Working class--Songs and music.

Civil rights--Songs and music.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

127 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : International Publishers, [1965]

Contents:

The Predecessors. Early roots; Union songs; People's songs and people's artists

Hard Times in the South. Southern folk tradition; Commonwealth Labor College; Kentucky Workers Alliance; Highlander Folk School

The Students Move. End of the Organization Man; Nashville; Highlander and Civil Rights

The Old and the New. "Folk Process"; Woody Guthrie; From "We" to "I"

The Gate of Ivory and the Gate of Horn. The Left tradition; Commercial success; Early topical song popularity; A singers' magazine

The South Spreads its Songs. The Albany Movement; The Freedom Singers; The new songs; Other trends

Topical Songs find an Audience. Broadside's Growth; Freewheelin'; Pete Seeger and Newport '63; Problems of success

Song Writer-Singers. Singer and subject; NYCPA; Bob Dylan; Phil Ochs; Tom Paxton; Mark Spoelstra; Peter La Farge and Pat Sky; Len Chandler; Other writers

Atlanta "Sing for Freedom". Formulation; From the South; North meet South

A Song-Writing Country. Caravan of Music; Commercialism; The picture today.

Notes:

"Suggested reading and listening list" : pages 117-121.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has name and address of Linda Leaks ... Washington, D.C. written in ms. on t.p. and underline.

Other Format:

Online version: Dunson, Josh, 1941- Freedom in the air.

OCLC:

1019707