MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pete Seeger, Little Red Songbook, Gordon Lightfoot
29 Mar 2020
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Foundation for 1960s protest music comes from turn of century music created by the. International workers of the world (iww) (wobblies: workers would sing marching songs from the little red songbook (1909) while marching in demonstrations, compiled by joe hill. Social protest continues in popular music in the 1940s with folksingers such as woody guthrie and. Pete seeger: woody guthrie (1912-1967, prolific lyricist writing political songs. Sign all marginalized artists (blacklisted: only print in a few copies of the record, kept everything i print, always paid royalties. Folk revival began in the late 1950s, popularized old folk ballads. e. g. , tom dooley by the. Folk audience consisted of a slightly older, college-going crowd interested in politics, intellectual ideas, and the preservation of heritage. Folk music became a craze by the early 1960s: considered an authentic expression of particular experiences. Signed to columbia: albert grossman (manager, peter paul and mary, gordon lightfoot, the band. Janis joplin: sonny and che, the byrds.
