Exploring American Folk Music by Lornell, Kip -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Exploring American Folk Music

A Preamble to the Third Edition

A Prelude to the Second Edition Preface and Acknowledgments 1. START HERE!

Introduction The Roots of Twenty-first-Century Folk Music Music in Our Daily Lives and in the Academy Defining American Folk Music Cultural Geography and Traditions Folk Culture in the United States Bred in the Bone Listening to American Folk Music Instruments

Accordion Banjo Dulcimer Fiddle Fife Guitar Harmonica Mandolin Mouth Bow One-String Quills Washboard

Final Thoughts

2. MASS MEDIA

Introduction Minstrel and Medicine Shows Recording the Blues Record Companies and Folk Music Country Music over the Airwaves Border Radio The Ancestors of MTV and VH-1 Uncle Dave Macon and the Electronic Media Final Thoughts

3. FIELDWORK IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY AMERICA

Musical Communities and Fieldwork Accomplishing Fieldwork

Topic Focus Preparation Questions Communication Interview Ethics

Some Nuts and Bolts of Fieldwork Final Thoughts

4. ANGLO-AMERICAN SECULAR FOLK MUSIC

British Ballads Broadsides Native American Ballads Singing Cowboys Tin Pan Alley and Country Music Texts Ernest Stoneman’s Repertoire The Father of Bluegrass Honky-Tonk Western Swing Final Thoughts

5. ANGLO-AMERICAN SACRED MUSIC

Psalmody Shape Notes Camp Meetings Shakers Later Hymnody and Gospel Songs Sanctified Styles Southern Gospel Boogie Final Thoughts

6. AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FOLK MUSIC

The Great Awakening and Camp Meetings Spirituals Ring Shouts Gospel Pentecostal Singing and Guitar Evangelists Preachers on Record Gospel Quartets Final Thoughts

7. AFRICAN AMERICAN SECULAR FOLK MUSIC

Work Songs String Bands Fife and Drum Bands Ragtime and Coon Songs Ballads Songsters and Rural Music Down-home Blues Modern Blues Final Thoughts

8. ETHNIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS

Jewish American: Klezmer Native American

Music and Ceremony Today Musical Characteristics Instruments Powwows

Hawaiian American Franco-American

Cajun Country Zydeco Northeastern States

Scandinavian American

Ballads Instrumental Music Polka and More Polka! Norwegian American Folk Music

Final Thoughts

9. THE HISPANIC AMERICAN DIASPORA

The Southwest

Tex-Mex Music Corridos Mariachi Native American Influences

Florida New York City Final Thoughts

10. THE FOLK REVIVALS

Red Roots The Mass Media and Popular Culture Field Research The 1960s Folk Revival A British Invasion The Blues Boom Back to the Mountains New Entrepreneurs and Frontiers Final Thoughts

11. THE FOLK ROOTS OF CONTEMPORARY POPULAR MUSIC

Black Codes from the Underground Improvisation in Black Musical Culture Rhythm and Blues Rockabilly Early Rock ’n’ Roll and Rock Motown and Soul Hip-Hop and Rap Country Music Today Final Thoughts

12. URBAN FOLK MUSIC

Introduction Blues and Gospel in Chicago San Antonio’s Country and Conjunto Traditions Washington, D.C.

Country Music Bluegrass

Final Thoughts

Selected Song Index General Index