Prologue: Tom Dooley History of a Song

1. We Are the Folk Backgrounds of the Revival

2. The New Minstrelsy Jim Crow and John Henry

3. Ballad for Americans The Search for a People's Opera

4. Ramblin' Round Your City The Almanac Singers

5. Wasn't That a Time Folk Music and the Cold War

6. Smith's Memory Theater The Great Folkways Anthology

7. He Shall Overcome Pete Seeger

8. Happy Campers The Children's Underground

9. Lady and the Tramp Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

10. Nobles, Patrons, Patriots, Reds Democracy and Revivalism

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Robert S. Cantwell is Adjunct Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture and the classic Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound.