When We Were Good: The Folk Revival

By Robert S. Cantwell

Book Overview

In 1938, in Pick Britches Valley, North Carolina, a young mountaineer sang a ballad about an infamous murder for a visiting singer and collector of folk songs. Twenty years later, nearly every American within range of a radio was hearing about Tom Dooley from the Kingston Trio - and a folk tradition dating back to the days of the minstrel show had intersected with the emergent youth culture of the late-50s. How did Tom Dooley get from Pick Britches to the top of the charts in 1958?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674951328
• ISBN13: 9780674951327
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"