Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers
24-28 February 2012
New York City, NY
Second Call for Papers
FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL AND THE CULTURAL AGENDA; ANGLO-AMERICAN
PERSPECTIVES FROM THE 1950S AND 1960s
Organisers: John R. Gold, Oxford Brookes University
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The 1950s and 1960s have gained a lasting reputation not just as a
period of rapid change in society and the arts, but as one in which
the arts participated in social change; reflecting and influencing the
wider culture. In both the USA and UK, folk music revivals energised
popular music, both through the propagation of so-called ‘traditional’
folk music and the development of new genres, such as folk rock. For a
brief period, musicians identified with the folk revival enjoyed
considerable commercial success, while inculcating the idea that music
could be an important vehicle for change. Folk music, mediated
through clubs and festivals, became central to protest movements and
later contributed to the emergence of counterculture.
This proposed session seeks papers that wish to explore the
geographical implications - social, political, cultural, and economic
– of the folk music revivals on both sides of the Atlantic. Areas of
interest would include:
* music and the nature of the folk
* hearths of revival
* mediating the folk
* folk music, protest and confrontation
* folk music and proto-environmentalism
* folk music and the counterculture
* folk music and the democratisation of the arts
* the growth and experience of folk festivals
Papers on other related topics are also welcome. Please contact John
Gold ([log in to unmask]) or George Revill ([log in to unmask])if
you are interested in giving a paper, preferably no later than the
26th of September 2011.
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