I HEAR AMERICA SINGING: FOLK MUSIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Book ID/图书代码： 12689014B72268
English Summary/英文概要： Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a group or nation. In America, folk music--from African American spirituals to English ballads and protest songs--renders the imagined community more tangible and comprises a critical component of our diverse national heritage.
In "I Hear America Singing," Rachel Donaldson traces the vibrant history of the twentieth-century folk music revival from its origins in the 1930s through its end in the late 1960s. She investigates the relationship between the revival and concepts of nationalism, showing how key figures in the revival--including Pete Seeger , Alan Lomax, Moses Asch, and Ralph Rinzler--used songs to influence the ways in which Americans understood the values, the culture, and the people of their own nation.
As Donaldson chronicles how cultural norms were shaped over the course of the mid-twentieth century, she underscores how various groups within the revival and their views shifted over time. "I Hear America Singing" provides a stirring account of how and why the revivalists sustained their culturally pluralist and politically democratic Americanism over this tumultuous period in American history.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 民谣音乐可以说是让人回忆简单过去的最佳方式。它揭示许多我们今天对于社区与归属的感悟。它唱响那些定义一个群体或是国家的共同传统。在美国，民谣音乐---从非洲裔美国人的黑人灵歌，到英格兰民谣以及反抗歌曲---让人们想象中的社区变成一种更为触手可及的存在，其中更是不乏对于我们多元化民族传统的批判元素。
在《我听见美国在歌唱》一书中，Rachel Donaldson对20世纪民谣音乐的生动复兴之旅进行追溯，起始于20世纪30年代，直至60年代末。她对民谣复兴与民族主义概念间的关系进行了一系列探究，为读者们呈现这一复兴运动中的主要人物---其中包括皮特•西格，阿伦•罗马克思，摩西•阿施，拉尔夫•林茨勒---是如何运用歌曲的力量去影响美国民众理解其国家的价值观，文化及自身民族性。
Donaldson一边以时间方式记录20世纪中叶这一系列文化标准的逐渐演化成型，一边关注这场复兴运动中的各个群体以及他们随着时间而变化的观点看法。这些民谣音乐复兴者们究竟如何做到在美国历史上的这一动荡时期，既保持着其文化的多元性，又不脱离美式民主政治，他们为什么要这么做，且听《我听见美国在歌唱》为读者们精彩地娓娓道来。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Rachel Clare Donaldson是一名独立学者，她和Ronald D. Cohen一起著有Roots of the Revival: Folk Music in the United States and Great Britain in the 1950s（《复兴之源：20世纪50年代的美国与英国民谣》）一书。
Rachel Clare Donaldson is an independent scholar and the co-author (with Ronald D. Cohen) of Roots of the Revival: Folk Music in the United States and Great Britain in the 1950s.
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