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Author Young, Izzy, 1928-2019

Title The conscience of the folk revival : the writings of Israel "Izzy" Young / edited by Scott Barretta
Published Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 247 pages) : illustrations
Series American folk music and musicians series ; no. 18
American folk music and musicians ; no. 18.
Contents Series Editor's Foreword by Ronald D. Cohen; Foreword by Israel "Izzy" Young; Preface; Introduction; Part I. EARLY WRITINGS; A New Secret History of Folklore U.S.A., February 1957; Predictions of the Folklore Center for the Future; A Modest Plea to Prevent the Connotations of Folknik in America from Becoming a Burden to Its Author and for Making It Beneficial to the Public; Newport Folk Festival; Folk Music Guide * USA; Excerpts from Izzy Young's Notebooks; Photospread; Part II. FRETS AND FRAILS; Frets and Frails; Part III. OTHER WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS
Folk Music Was Bigger Than the Bronx: A Dialogue with Israel YoungThe Folklore Center's Gripe about MacDougal Street; "Israel Young ... The Music Belongs to the People," Interview by P. Dingle; How the Fifth Peg Came into Existe; Part IV. BOB DYLAN AND OTHER FOLK ICONS; The Story behind Bob Dylan's First Concert; Bob Dylan Taunt; The Missing Singer; Introduction to the Swedish Audio Book of Bob Dylan's Chronicles; "Go Away You Bomb"; "Talking Folklore Center"; Izzy on Woody; A Tribute to Harry Smith; Folk Music and Copyright, Lomax and Leadbelly; Appendix: Manuscripts and Typescripts
Summary The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young collects Young's writing, from his regular "Frets and Frails" column for Sing Out! Magazine (1959-1969) to his commentaries on such contentious issues as copyright and commercialism. A key collection of primary sources on the American countercultural scene in New York City, this work will interest not only folk music fans, but students and scholars of American social and cultural history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Young, Izzy, 1928-2019
SUBJECT Young, Izzy, 1928-2019 fast
Subject Folk music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Impresarios -- United States
MUSIC -- Ethnic.
Folk music
Impresarios
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Barretta, Scott
LC no. 2012032235
ISBN 9780810883093
0810883090
9781299184909
1299184901