Richard Dyer-Bennet
The Last Minstrel
In the 1940s and 1950s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the Twentieth-Century Minstrel. Dyer-Bennet's achievements were many. He became the first solo performer of his kind to appear in Carnegie Hall. This book argues Dyer-Bennet helped pave the way for the folk boom of the mid-1950s and early 1960s. It also posits strong evidence that Dyer-Bennet would certainly be much better known than he is today had his career not been interrupted midstream by the anticommunist, Red-scare blacklist…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60473-360-0
- EAN: 9781604733600
- Produktnummer: 4794929
- Verlag: University Press Of Mississippi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.6 cm 480 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 480
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