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Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
A Brief List of Material Relating to the Folksong Revival
Compiled by: Joseph C. Hickerson
Publication Year: 1969
Bayard, Samuel P.
"Decline and 'Revival' of Anglo-American Folk Music." In Folklore
in
Action, edited by Horace P. Beck, Philadelphia: Publications of the American
Folklore Society, Bibliographical and Special Series, volume 14, 1962, pp. 21-29.
Bikel, Theodore.
"Random Thoughts on the Folk Scene." ABC TV Hootenanny, volume 1, number
1, January 1964, pp. 16-19.
Bluestein, Gene.
"Songs of the Silent Generation." New Republic, March 13, 1961, pp.
21-22.
Botkin, Benjamin A.
"The Folk Song Revival: Cult or Culture?" Folk Music and Dance,
number 4, April 1964, pp. 1-4. Reprinted in Sing Out!, volume 15, number 1,
March 1965, pp. 30-32.
"The Folkness of the Folk." In Folklore in Action:
Essays for Discussion in Honor of MacEdward Leach, edited by
Horace P. Beck, Philadelphia: Publications of the American Folklore
Society, Bibliographical and Special Series, volume 14, 1962,
pp. 44-57.
"The Folksong Revival: A Symposium." New York
Folklore Quarterly, volume 19, number 2, June 1963, pp. 83-142.
"The Liveliest Art." New York Folklore Quarterly,
volume 14, number 2, Summer 1958, pp. 152-154.
Brand, Oscar.
The Ballad Mongers. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1962.
Castan, Sam.
"Folk-Singers and Their Fans." Look, August 27, 1963, pp. 49-57.
Coffin, Tristram P.
"Folksong of Social Protest: A Musical Mirage." New York Folklore
Quarterly,
volume 14, number 1, Spring 1958, pp. 3-9.
"Image of the Folklorist." New York Folklore
Quarterly,
volume 18, number 1, Spring 1962, pp. 39-43.
Cohen, John.
"In Defense of City Folksingers." Sing Out!, volume 9, number 1, Summer
1959, pp. 30-31.
Dachs, David.
Any Thing Goes: The World of Popular Music. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964.
Pp. 238-248: "Folk Music Boom."
Davidson, Donald.
"Current Attitudes Towards Folklore." Tennessee Folklore Society
Bulletin,
volume 6, number 4, December 1940, pp. 44-51. Reprinted in Still Rebels,
Still
Yankees, and Other Essays, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957,
pp. 128-136.
Denver, Nigel.
"The Responsibility of the Revival." Folk Scene, number 12, October
1965, pp. 20-21.
DeTurk, David A. and A. Poulin, Jr.
The American Folk Scene: Dimensions of the Folksong Revival.
New York: Dell, 1967.
Dorson, Richard M.
"The American Folklore Scene, 1963." Folklore [London], volume 74,
Autumn 1963, pp. 433-449
"Folklore in Higher Education." New York Folklore
Quarterly, volume 18, number 1, Spring 1962, pp. 44-54
"The Growth of Folklore Courses." Journal of
American Folklore, volume 63, number 249, July-September 1950, pp. 345-359.
Dunson, Josh.
Freedom in the Air: Song Movements of the Sixties. New York: International
Publishers, 1965.
Dunson, Josh, and Moses Asch.
"Is Cash Killing Folk Music?" American Dialog, volume 2, number 1,
March 1965, pp. 29-30.
Dyer-Bennet, Richard.
"Some Thoughts on the Folk Song Revival." Sing Out!, volume 12, number
2, April-May 1962, pp. 17-22.
Faier, Billy.
"Folk Singing Styles and the Phonograph Record." Folk Music [New York],
[number 1], June 1964, pp. 24-29, 31.
Field, Arthur Jordan.
"Notes on the History of Folksinging in New York City." Caravan, number
7, June-July 1959, pp. 7-14, 17.
Fiott, Stephen.
"In Defense of Commercial Folksingers." Sing Out!, volume 12, number
5, December-January 1962, pp. 43-45.
Folk Music Yearbook of Artists 1964. Fairfax, Va.: Jandel Productions
International, 1964.
"Folk Singing." Time, November 23, 1962, pp. 54-60.
"Folk Songs and the Top 40." Sing Out!, volume 16,
number 1, February-March 1966, pp. 12-21.
"The Folklorist: Hillbilly or Highbrow?" Keystone
Folklore Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, Winter 1958, pp. 1-8.
Gleason, Ralph J.
"The Times They Are a Changing." Ramparts, volume 3, number 7, April
1965, pp. 36-48.
Goode, Brian.
"Some Thoughts on the Rise in Popularity of Folk Music in Britain." Autoharp,
number 24, March 20, 1965, pp. a-i.
Greenway, John.
American Folksongs of Protest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1953.
Harris, Roy.
"Folksong - American Big Business." Modern Music, volume 18, number
1, November-December 1940, pp. 8-11.
Haun, Eugene.
"Lares and Penates, Once Removed." Journal of American Folklore, volume
72, number 285, July-September 1959, pp. 243-247.
Hentoff, Nat.
"Folk, Folkum and the New Citybilly." Playboy, June 1963, pp. 95-98,
168-170.
Hinton, Sam.
"The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience." Western Folklore,
volume 14, number 3, July 1955, pp. 170-173. Reprinted in Sing Out!,
volume 7, number 1, Spring 1957, pp. 24-26.
Ives, Burl.
Wayfaring Stranger. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948.
Jackson, Bruce.
"Sanitary Signifying and Proliferating Ivy: Observations of the Citybilly
at Work and Play." Listen, number 2, February 1964, p. 6; number
3, March-April
1964, pp. 4-6.
Joseph, Nathan.
"Revival or Standstill?" Folk
Scene,
number 9, July 1965, pp. 27-29.
The Kingston Trio. New York: Random House, 1960.
Kornfeld, Barry.
"Folksinging in Washington Square." Caravan, number 18, August-September
1959, pp. 6-12.
Lass, Roger.
"Art of the Urban Folksinger." Caravan, number 13, October-November
1958, pp. 20-23.
"Chronicle of the Urban Folksinger." Caravan, number
8, March 1958, pp. 11-17.
Lawless, Ray M.
Folksingers and Folksongs in America. Revised edition, New York: Duell, Sloan
and Pearce, 1965.
Legman, Gershon.
"Folksongs, Fakelore, Folkniks, and Cash." Sing Out!, volume 10,
number 3, October-November 1960, pp. 29-35. Reprinted in The Horn Book:
Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography, New Hyde Park, N. Y.: University Books,
1964, pp. 494-504.
Lloyd, A. L.
"The English Folk Song Revival." Sing Out!, volume 12, number 2, April-May
1962, pp. 34-37.
"What's Tradition?" Folk Music [London], volume 1,
number 1, November 1963, pp. 10-13.
Lomax, Alan.
"The 'Folkniks'--and the Songs they Sing." Sing Out!, volume 9, number
1, Summer 1959, pp. 30-31.
MacColl, Ewan.
"The Singer and the Audience." Folk Music [London], volume 1, number
1, November 1963, pp. 4-8. Reprinted in Sing Out!, volume 14, number 4, September
1964, pp. 16-20.
McGrath, Kevin.
"What Have They Done to the Folk?" Anarchy, number 51 (volume 5, number
5), May 1965, pp. 133-139.
Marett, R. R.
"Survival and Revival." Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song
Society, volume 1, number 2, December 1933, pp. 73-78.
Molin, Sven Eric, et al.
"Lead Belly, Burl Ives, and Sam Hinton." Journal of American Folklore,
volume 71, number 279, January-March 1958, pp. 58-79.
Montgomery, Susan.
"The Folk Furor." Mademoiselle, December 1960, pp. 98-100, 117-119.
Nye, Hermes.
How To Be a Folksinger: How To Sing and Present Folksongs:
or The Folksinger's Guide; or Eggs I Have Laid. New York: Oak Publications, 1965.
Pankake, Jon.
"Pete's Children: The American Folk Song Revival, Pro and Con." Little
Sandy Review, number 29, March-April 1964, pp. 25-31.
Paton, Sandy.
"Folk and the Folk Arrival." Folk Music [New York], [number 1],
June 1964, pp. 14, 54-56.
Radosh, Ron.
"Commercialism and the Folk Song Revival." Sing Out!, volume 8,
number 4, Spring 1959, pp. 27-29.
Reuss, Dick.
"Topical Songs from People's Songs to Broadside; The Changing Times." Broadside,
number 55, February 12, 1965, pp. [10]-[12].
Seeger, Charles.
"Professionalism and Amateurism in the Study of Folk Music." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 62, number 244, April-June 1949, pp. 107-113. Reprinted
in The Critics and the Ballads: Readings, edited by MacEdward Leach and Tristram
P. Coffin, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961, pp. 151-160.
Seeger, Mike.
"A Contemporary Folk Esthetic." Sing Out!, volume 16, number 1, February-March
1966, pp. 59-61.
Seeger, Pete.
"The American Folk Music Revival." In Folk Music USA, by Howard Graffman
and B. T. Manning, New York: Citadel Press, 1962, pp. 8-15.
"Why Folk Music?" International Musician, volume
63, number 11, May 1965, pp. 9, 31-32.
Shaw, Arnold.
Belafonte: An Unauthorized Biography. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton, 1960.
Shelton, Robert.
"Folk Music Today." In Folk Music Guide, New York: C. F. Martin, 1962,
pp. [7]-[12].
Shepard, Leslie.
"Letter from England on the British Folk Music Revival." Mountain
Life
and Work, volume 39, number 1, Spring 1963, pp. 17-21.
Silber, Irwin.
"15 Years of Sing Out!: From an Editor's Diary." Sing Out!, volume
16, number 1, February-March 1966, pp. 43-53.
Hootenanny Song Book. Music for Millions Series, volume 44.
New York: Consolidated Music Publishers, 1963. Pp. 5-8: "The
Folk Song Revival."
Reprints from the People's Songs Bulletin 1946-1949. New York:
Oak Publications, 1961.
"Traditional Folk Artists Capture the Campus." Sing
Out!, volume 14, number 2, April-May 1964, pp. 8-14.
Story, Mike.
"Mike Story Discusses the Current Folk Scene and Its Relation to the Hit
Parade." Folk Voice, U.S. Edition, number 29, September 30, 1965.
"A Symposium: Folk Music Today." Sing Out!, volume
11, number 1, February-March 1961, pp. 16-28.
"Symposium: Topical Songs and Folksinging, 1965." Sing
Out!, volume 15,
number 4, September 1965, pp. 9-18.
Tamony, Peter.
"'Hootenanny': The Word, Its Content and Continuum." Western Folklore,
volume 22, number 3, July 1963, pp. 165-170. Reprinted in Hootenanny, volume
1, number 2, March 1964, pp. 25, 73-74. Reprinted also as "History of Hootenanny" in
Spin, volume 3, number 1, 1964, pp. 14-15.
Waldman, Grace Jan.
"Life Among the Guitars." Mademoiselle, May 1959, pp. 88-89, 14, 27,
32.
Whitman, Robert S., and Sheldon S. Kagan.
"Folksongs and the Mass Media." Studies in the Mass Media, volume
4, number 6, March 1964, pp. 3-20.
Young Folk Song Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.
ADDENDA
Badeaux, Ed.
"The Spectacle Moves On." Sing Out!, volume 17, number 4, August-September
1967, pp. 10-14.
Belz, Carl I.
"Popular Music and the Folk Tradition." Journal of American Folklore,
volume 80, number 316, April-June 1967, pp. 130-142.
Bose, Fritz.
"Folk Music Research and the Cultivation of Folk Music." Journal
of
the International Folk Music Council, volume 9, 1957, pp. 20-21.
"Traditional Folksong and 'Folklore' Singers." Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 20, 1968, pp.
17-21.
"Volkslied - Shlager - Folklore." Zeitschrift
für
Volkskunde, volume 63, number 1, 1967, pp. 40-78. Includes discussion
by several writers.
Bronson, Bertrand H.
"Cecil Sharp and Folksong: A Review Article." Western Folklore, volume
27, number 3, July 1968, pp. 200-207.
Crossley-Holland, Peter.
"Preservation and Renewal of Traditional Music." Journal of the
International
Folk Music Council, volume 16, 1964, pp. 15-18.
Cunningham, Sis.
Broadside: Songs of Our Times from the Pages of Broadside
Magazine, Volume 1. New York: Oak Publications, 1964. Introduction by Gordon Friesen. Volume
2, 1968.
Dean-Smith, Margaret.
"The Pre-disposition to Folkery." Folklore [London], volume 79, Autumn
1968, pp. 161-175.
Denisoff, R. Serge.
"The Proletarian Renascence: The Folkness of the Ideological Folk." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 82, number 323, January-March 1969, pp. 51-65.
"Protest Movements: Class Consciousness and the Propaganda
Song." Sociological Quarterly, volume 9, number 2, Spring
1968, pp. 228-247.
"Songs of Persuasion: A Sociological Analysis of Urban
Propaganda Songs." Journal of American Folklore, volume
79, number 314, October-December 1966, pp. 581-589.
Fishwick, Marshall.
"Folklore, Fakelore, and Poplore." Saturday Review, volume 50, number
34, August 26, 1967, pp. 20-21, 43-44.
Gahr, David, and Robert Shelton.
The Face of Folk Music. New York: Citadel Press, 1968.
Graves, Alfred Perceval.
"Ireland's Share in Folk Song Revival." Journal of the Irish Folk
Song
Society, volume 14, April 1914, pp. 9-21.
Green, Archie.
"Several Scenes in Search of a Tag." In Philadelphia Folk Festival
- 66, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Folksong Society, 1966, pp. 25, 40.
Greenway, John.
"Folklore and the Big Money." In Our Living Traditions: An Introduction
to American Folklore. New York: Basic Books, 1968, pp. 283-291.
"Folksong - A Protest." Australian Literary Studies,
volume 2, number 3, June 1966, pp. 179-192.
Hentoff, Nat.
"The Future of the Folk Renascence." Sing Out!, volume 17, number 1,
February-March 1967, pp. 10-13.
Kaplan, Arlene E.
"A Study of Folksinging in a Mass Society." Sociologus, volume 5, number
1, Spring 1955, pp. 14-28.
Kennedy, Douglas N.
"The Folk Music Revival in England." Journal of the International
Folk
Music Council, volume 7, 1955, pp. 15-16.
Kennedy, Peter.
"Searching for Lambs." Tradition, volume 1, 1966, pp. 4-5.
Klusen, Ernst.
"Differences in Style between Unbroken and Revived Folk-Music Traditions." Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 9, 1957, pp. 28-29.
Leach, MacEdward.
"The Academician Looks at the Folk Festivals." In Philadelphia
Folk
Festival - 66, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Folksong Society, 1966, pp. 18-19.
MacColl, Ewan.
"Where Are We Going?" Chapbook, volume 3, number 5 [1965], pp. 3-12,
30-34.
Okun, Milton.
Something to Sing About!: The Personal Choices of America's
Folk Singers. New
York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1968.
Real, Jere.
"Folk Music and Red Tubthumping." American Opinion, volume 7, number
11, December 1964, pp. 19-24.
Ribakove, Sy and Barbara.
Folk Rock: The Bob Dylan Story. New York: Dell, 1966.
Rosenfeld, Paul.
"Folksong and Culture-Politics." Modern Music, volume 17, number 1,
November-December 1939, pp. 18-24.
Russcol, Herbert.
"I Gave My Love a Cherry, So Tell It Like It Is, Baby!" High Fidelity,
volume 18, number 12, December 1968, pp. 54-58.
Seeger, Charles.
"Folk Music in the Schools of a Highly Industrialized Society." Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 5, 1953, pp. 40-44. Reprinted
in Sing Out!, volume 8, number 1, Spring 1958, pp. 26-29.
Seeger, Peter.
"The Popularisation of Folk Songs in the U.S.A." Folkmusic
and Folklore, volume 1, October 1967, pp. 139-142.
"Whatever Happened to Singing in the Unions." Sing
Out!, volume 15, number 2, May 1965, pp. 28-31.
Shaw, Arnold.
"Gitars, Folk Songs, and Halls of Ivy." Harper's
Magazine,
volume 229, number 1374, November 1964, pp. 33-45.
Stekert, Ellen J.
"Cents and Nonsense in the Urban Folksong Movement: 1930-1966." In
Folklore & Society: Essays in Honor of Benj. A. Botkin,
edited by Bruce Jackson, Hatboro, Penna.: Folklore Associates,
1966,
pp. 153-168.
Young, Israel.
"Folk Music Was Bigger Than the Bronx." In Philadelphia
Folk Festival - 66, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Folksong Society, 1966,
pp. 8-9, 28, 32, 34, 36.
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