Richard Dyer-Bennet: the last minstrel
"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-Benne…
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- Full title :Richard Dyer-Bennet : the last minstrel / Paul O. Jenkins ; foreword by Bonnie Dyer-Bennet ; afterword by Andrew Schulman.
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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."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication:Jackson
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 181 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781604733600, 1604733608
- oclc:ocn318292882
- LC Classification:ML420.D978
- Dewey Decimal:782.42162/0092
Table of Contents
Master and pupil -- New York -- Early recordings -- Aspen interlude and life on the road -- The blacklist -- Dyer-Bennet Records -- The lovely milleress and Stony Brook -- The odyssey of Richard Dyer-Bennet -- The legacy of Richard Dyer-Bennet.
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