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Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel by Paul Jenkins (Paperback, 2011)

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In the 1940s and '50s, 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 approach to singing sounded almost foreign to many American listeners. The folk artist followed a musical tradition in danger of dying out. The Swede Sven Scholander was the last European proponent of minstrelsy and served as Dyer-Bennet's inspiration after the young singer traveled to Stockholm to meet him one year before Scholander's death. Dyer-Bennet's achievements were many. Nine years after his meeting with Scholander, 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, finding his influence in the work of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and many others. It also posits strong evidence that Dyer-Bennet would certainly be much better known today had his career not been interrupted midstream by the anticommunist, Red-scare blacklist and its ban on his performances..

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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN-13
9781617032059
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111521489

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Book Title
Richard Dyer-Bennet: the Last Minstrel
Author
Paul Jenkins
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music, Traditional Folk Music
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm

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Title_Author
Paul Jenkins
Series Title
American Made Music Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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