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Filene, Benjamin. "Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Vernacular Music in the Twentieth Century," American Studies Program, Yale University, December 1994.
This study explores how Americans have remembered the country’s musical past, how these memories have been transmitted, and how they have both reflected and shaped Americans’ cultural outlook. It examines the history of twentieth-century folk-music revivals, focusing on the roles of cultural middlemen who move between folk and popular culture—folklorists, record company executives, producers, radio programmers, and publicists. Considering such figures as John and Alan Lomax, Willie Dixon, Richard Dorson, Ben Botkin, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, this work argues that the effort to preserve and popularize American “roots” music constitutes a powerful underlying current running through this century’s culture.
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