Early Years of Folk Music

David Dicaire is the author of numerous works about music history. He lives in Leamington, Ontario, Canada.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      Part One. Historical Figures      Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723), English Folk Comic      Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738), The Gaelic Harpist      Denis O’Hampsey (1695–1807), Harp Magic      Niel Gow (1727–1807), Scottish Fiddle Dance Master      Edward Bunting (1773–1843), The Transcriber      Targjei Augundsson (1801 –1872), Father of Norwegian Folk      Ostap Veresai (1803–1899), Ukrainian Minstrel      Francis J. Child (1825–1896), The Collector      Cecil Sharp (1859–1924), Folklore Revivalist      Part Two. American Pioneers      Stephen Foster (1826–1864), Father of American Folk Music      John A. Lomax (1867–1948), The Ballad Hunter      Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882–1973), Minstrel of the Appalachians      Charles Seeger (1886–1979), American Musicologist      Aunt Molly Jackson (1880–1960), Pistol Packing Mama      Helen Flanders (1890–1972), The Vermont Songcatcher      John Jacob Niles (1892–1980), Dean of American Balladeers      Elizabeth Cotten (1893–1987), The Fingerpicker      Clarence Ashley (1895–1967), The Blue Ridge Entertainer      Dock Boggs (1898–1971), Primeval Hillbilly Folk      Buell Kazee (1900–1976), Lonesome Balladeer      Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 –1953), Folk Music Matriarch      Part Three. Political Connections      Joe Hill (1879–1915), The Initiator      Burl Ives (1909–1995), The Wayfarin’ Stranger      Earl Robinson (1910–1991), Ballad for Americans      Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), Bound for Glory      Lee Hays (1914–1981), Lonesome Traveler      Josh White (1914–1969), Folk-Blues Protest      Cisco Houston (1918–1961), The Pure Voice      Joe Glazer (1918–2006), Labor’s Troubadour      Pete Seeger (1919–), Twentieth Century Folk Man      Fred Hellerman (1927–), The Little Cowboy      Part Four. Folk Around the World      Béla Bartók (1881 –1945), The Hungarian Ethnomusicologist      Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901 –1978), The Oud Master      Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908–1992), Modern Argentine Folk King      Luiz Gonzaga (1912–1989), Forró Folk      Edith Fowke (1913–1996), Canadian Folklorist      Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915–1984), Urban Greek Folkie      Amália Rodrigues (1920–1999), Voice of Portugal      Buddy MacMaster (1924–), Dean of Cape Breton Fiddlers      Hamza El Din (1929–2006), Nubian Folk Master      Severino Dias De Oliveira (1930–2006), Sivuca      Part Five. The Pre–Folk Boom Era      Hobart Smith (1897–1965), Blue Ridge Legacy      Moses Asch (1905–1986), Folkways Founder      A.L. Lloyd (1908–1982), Father of English Folk      Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913–1991), Renaissance Man      Alan Lomax (1915–2002), Folksong Revivalist      Ewan MacColl (1915–1989), English Folk Revivalist      Oscar Brand (1920–), The Can-Am Folklorist      Jean Ritchie (1922–), The Mother of Folk      Harry Smith (1923–1991), The Anthologist      Bibliography      Index

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