Singing Out

<p>Intimate anecdotal and spell-binding <em>Singing Out</em> offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006 this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives shedding light on the musical political and social aspects of this movement. The narrators highlight many of the major folk revival figures including Pete Seeger Bernice Reagon Phil Ochs Mary Travers Don McLean Judy Collins Arlo Guthrie Ry Cooder and Holly Near. Together they tell the stories of such musical groups as the Composers' Collective the Almanac Singers People's Songs the Weavers the New Lost City Ramblers and the Freedom Singers. Folklorists musicians musicologists writers activists and aficionados reveal not only what happened during the folk revivals but what it meant to those personally and passionately involved. For everyone who ever picked up a guitar fiddle or banjo this will be a book to give and cherish. Extensive notes bibliography and discography plus a photo section.</p>