The Early Years of Folk Music: Fifty Founders of the Tradition

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction     
• Part One. Historical Figures      
• Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723), English Folk Comic     
• Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738), The Gaelic Harpist     
• Denis O’Hampsey (1695–1807), Harp Magic     
• Niel Gow (1727–1807), Scottish Fiddle Dance Master     
• Edward Bunting (1773–1843), The Transcriber     
• Targjei Augundsson (1801 –1872), Father of Norwegian Folk     
• Ostap Veresai (1803–1899), Ukrainian Minstrel     
• Francis J. Child (1825–1896), The Collector     
• Cecil Sharp (1859–1924), Folklore Revivalist     
• Part Two. American Pioneers      
• Stephen Foster (1826–1864), Father of American Folk Music     
• John A. Lomax (1867–1948), The Ballad Hunter     
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882–1973), Minstrel of the Appalachians     
• Charles Seeger (1886–1979), American Musicologist     
• Aunt Molly Jackson (1880–1960), Pistol Packing Mama     
• Helen Flanders (1890–1972), The Vermont Songcatcher     
• John Jacob Niles (1892–1980), Dean of American Balladeers     
• Elizabeth Cotten (1893–1987), The Fingerpicker     
• Clarence Ashley (1895–1967), The Blue Ridge Entertainer     
• Dock Boggs (1898–1971), Primeval Hillbilly Folk     
• Buell Kazee (1900–1976), Lonesome Balladeer     
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 –1953), Folk Music Matriarch     
• Part Three. Political Connections      
• Joe Hill (1879–1915), The Initiator     
• Burl Ives (1909–1995), The Wayfarin’ Stranger     
• Earl Robinson (1910–1991), Ballad for Americans     
• Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), Bound for Glory     
• Lee Hays (1914–1981), Lonesome Traveler     
• Josh White (1914–1969), Folk-Blues Protest     
• Cisco Houston (1918–1961), The Pure Voice     
• Joe Glazer (1918–2006), Labor’s Troubadour     
• Pete Seeger (1919–), Twentieth Century Folk Man     
• Fred Hellerman (1927–), The Little Cowboy     
• Part Four. Folk Around the World      
• Béla Bartók (1881 –1945), The Hungarian Ethnomusicologist     
• Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901 –1978), The Oud Master     
• Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908–1992), Modern Argentine Folk King     
• Luiz Gonzaga (1912–1989), Forró Folk     
• Edith Fowke (1913–1996), Canadian Folklorist     
• Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915–1984), Urban Greek Folkie     
• Amália Rodrigues (1920–1999), Voice of Portugal     
• Buddy MacMaster (1924–), Dean of Cape Breton Fiddlers     
• Hamza El Din (1929–2006), Nubian Folk Master     
• Severino Dias De Oliveira (1930–2006), Sivuca     
• Part Five. The Pre–Folk Boom Era      
• Hobart Smith (1897–1965), Blue Ridge Legacy     
• Moses Asch (1905–1986), Folkways Founder     
• A.L. Lloyd (1908–1982), Father of English Folk     
• Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913–1991), Renaissance Man     
• Alan Lomax (1915–2002), Folksong Revivalist     
• Ewan MacColl (1915–1989), English Folk Revivalist     
• Oscar Brand (1920–), The Can-Am Folklorist     
• Jean Ritchie (1922–), The Mother of Folk     
• Harry Smith (1923–1991), The Anthologist     
• Bibliography     
• Index