Based on lectures presented at a conference at the University of Mississippi, Apr. 17-19, 1980.
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Includes index.
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Impact of recording technology on the British folksong revival / Kenneth S. Goldstein -- Electric folk music in Britain / A.L. Lloyd -- How the fiddler got on the roof / Mark Slobin -- Slovenian style in Milwaukee / Charles Keil -- Ethnic and popular style in America / Richard Spottswood -- New directions in sacred harp singing / Doris J. Dyen -- Gospel goes uptown : White gospel music, 1945-1955 / Charles K. Wolfe -- Secularization of Black gospel music / Anthony Heilbut -- Honky tonk : the music of the southern working class / Bill C. Malone -- Commercialization and tradition in the Nashville sound / William Ivey -- Charles Ives : Victorian gentleman or American folk hero? / Vivian Perlis -- Myths about Black folk music / Dena J. Epstein -- Blues and modern sound : past, present, and future / David Evans -- Black music : its roots, its popularity, its commercial prostitution / Amiri Baraka -- Folk, popular, jazz, and classical elements in New Orleans / Robert Palmer.