Richard Dyer-Bennet :: the last minstrel /

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 singin...

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1. Verfasser: Jenkins, Paul O.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
Schriftenreihe:American made music series.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 181 p., [8] p. of plates ).
Bibliographie:Includes discography (p. 137-142), bibliographical references (p. 168-171), and index.
ISBN:9781496800466
149680046X
9781604733617
1604733616

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