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Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of an easier past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and owed. It celebrates the distributed traditions define an organization or nation. IN THE US, folk music - from African-American spirituals to British ballads and protest melodies - makes the thought community more tangible and includes a critical component of our diverse national heritage. In "I Listen to America Singing", Rachel Donaldson traces the vibrant record of the 20th-century folk music revival from its origins in the 1930s through its result in the overdue 1960s. She investigates the relationship between the revival and concepts of nationalism, displaying how key results in the revival - including Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Moses Asch, and Ralph Rinzler - used melodies to affect the ways that Americans comprehended the principles, the culture, and the people of their own country.
