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When We Were Good

The Folk Revival

Robert S. Cantwell

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ISBN 9780674951334

Publication Date: 04/25/1997

432 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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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.

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