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Folk

A guide to some of the best music biz books.

Positively Fourth Street
By David Hajdu
Through the lives of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and the unfortunately for the most part forgotten couple Richard & Mimi Farina, Hajdu chronicles the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s.


Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music
By Ben Filene
An easy to read academic study of how America's roots music came to be celebrated and preserved. Individual chapters on John & Alan Lomax, the Chess record label, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger.


When We Were Good: The Folk Revival
By Robert Cantwell
A compelling analysis of the folk revival and how political it really was and wasn't. Good chapters on Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.




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