Richard Dyer-Bennet Final Minstrel Legacy Folk Music Pioneer
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Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel ISBN13: 9781617032059 ISBN10: 1617032050 Author: Jenkins, Paul (Author), Dyer-Bennet, Bonnie (Foreword by) Description: 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 Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: UNIV PR OF MISSISSIPPI Publication Date: 2011-08-29 Weight: 0.69 lbs Dimensions: 0.48'' H x 9'' L x 6'' W Number of Pages: 192 Language: English
