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In The 1940s And '50s, Richard Dyer-bennet (1913-1991) Was Among The Best Known And Most Respected Folk Singers In America. Paul O. Jenkins Tells, For The First Time, The Story Of Dyer-bennet, Often Referred To As The Twentieth-century Minstrel. Dyer-bennet's Approach To Singing Sounded Almost Foreign To Many American Listeners. The Folk Artist Followed A Musical Tradition In Danger Of Dying Out. The Swede Sven Scholander Was The Last European Proponent Of Minstrelsy And Served As Dyer-bennet's Inspiration After The Young Singer Traveled To Stockholm To Meet Him One Year Before Scholander's Death. Dyer-bennet's Achievements Were Many. Nine Years After His Meeting With Scholander, He Became The First Solo Performer Of His Kind To Appear In Carnegie Hall. This Book Argues Dyer-bennet Helped Pave The Way For The Folk Boom Of The Mid-1950s And Early 1960s, Finding His Influence In The Work Of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, And Many Others. It Also Posits Strong Evidence That Dyer-bennet Would Certainly Be Much Better Known Today Had His Career Not Been Interrupted Midstream By The Anticommunist, Red-scare Blacklist And Its Ban On His Performances.--jacket. Master And Pupil -- New York -- Ear

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Author

Paul O. Jenkins

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781604733617

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Biography, Memoir