Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments     
• Preface     
• ONE — Music from the Mountains: The Birth of Popular Folk Music     
• TWO — Music from the Gutter: Joe Hill and the Roots of Twentieth-Century Political Music     
• THREE — Hard Luck Days: Woody Guthrie’s America     
• FOUR — Which Side Are You On? The Left Discovers Folk Music     
• FIVE — The Endless Hootenanny: The Birth of the Folk Song Movement     
• SIX — Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...? The Folk Singers Under Attack     
• SEVEN — The Great Folk Scare: The Revival of Folk Music     
• EIGHT — The Runaway Prophet: Bob Dylan’s Romance with Folk Music     
• NINE — The Very Sound of Hope: The Legacy of the Sad-Eyed Prophets     
• Chapter Notes     
• References     
• Index