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Index
Preface
Why Folk Music and Why Now?
Introduction
The Dominant 5 Percent
The Plan for the Book
Mississippi Needs Folk Singers
Chapter 1
Background
The Rise and Fall of Tail-gunner Joe
The Birth of Teen Culture
Chapter 2
Senator Keating Discovers a Crack in the Nation’s Foundation
Folk Music as a Danger to the Republic
What Exactly Is a Protest Song?
Show Business and the Protest Song
Chapter 3
The Schizophrenic World of the Protest Song
Folk and Gospel Both Served the Movement
The Music Changes as the Movement Changes
Chapter 4
Bob Moses Attacks Mississippi
Why Mississippi?
The Freedom Riders
The Voter Registration Drives
Chapter 5
Here’s to the State of Mississippi
The Folk Singers Go South
Chapter 6
Carolyn Hester Goes to Mississippi
Greenwich Village Days
Freedom Summer
Mississippi Bound
Chapter 7
Joan Baez Boards the Mississippi Train
Where Did This Woman Come From?
Why Joan Baez and the Others Used Folk Music as a Weapon
Chapter 8
Peter, Paul and Mary
Chapter 9
Bob Dylan
Music at the March on Washington
Who Is Bob Dylan Really?
From Zimmerman to Dylan
Dylan Breaks Through
Chapter 10
After the Summer Comes the Fall
Bob Moses Quits
“Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?”
Chapter 11
The Radicalizing of Tom Hayden
The Port Huron Statement
Disarmament
Changing the Democratic Party
Reforming Colleges and Universities
Chapter 12
Lyndon Johnson Fights a War on Two Fronts
The Anti–Vietnam War Tradition in America
War Creates Fear
Chapter 13
The Music of the People
The Role of Chaos and Nothingness
The Music Changes as the Culture Changes
Chapter 14
Music and the Prefigurative Culture
Why a Generation Gap?
Chapter 15
Rise of the Prefigurative Culture
Escalating the War and the Protests
Chapter 16
“Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”
But Was It Folk Music?
What Was Folk-Rock, Exactly?
As the War in Vietnam Deepens, So Does the War in the Street
Chapter 17
Impatience Leads to Escalation
We Want the World and We Want It Now!
Impatience Leads to New Problems
On to Chicago
Chapter 18
The Chicago Seven Get Famous
Chapter 19
The New Left Loses Its Credibility
The Year That Killed the New Left
The Music Reflects the Times
Chapter 20
The Shift in Academia
Burn, Baby, Burn
Chapter 21
Radicalism in Both Politics and Music Dies
The New Left Loses Its Way
Origins of the Weather Underground Organization
How Could the Impulse to Revolution Have Happened?
From Demonstrators to Criminals
Music Can’t Capture the Times
The Art of Opposites
Chapter 22
The Death of Music as Revolution
The Postman Hypothesis
Chapter 23
You Don’t Need a Weatherman…
The Dying Gasp of Meaningful Music
The Ultimate Musical Escapism
Conclusion
Two-Valued Orientation
Two-Valued Orientation Leads to Problems
Multi-Valued Orientation
Two-Valued Orientation in Politics
Two-Valued Songs
The Death of the New Left
The Fate of the Folkies
Chapter Notes
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Names and Terms
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