Singing Out

David King Dunaway is the author and editor of eight volumes of history including How Can I Keep From Singing: The Ballad of Pete Seeger, The Pete Seeger Discography, and Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. His numerous honors include the 2010 Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi award from the Oral History Association. He serves as professor of English at the University of New Mexico and distinguished professor of broadcasting at San Francisco State University. Molly Beer is the author of numerous essays and articles on culture and culture clash. She has taught writing at the University of New Mexico and at Colgate University as an Olive B. O'Connor creative writing fellow.

• Foreword by Pete Seeger ; Introduction by David King Dunaway ; 1. I Never Heard A Horse Sing It!: Defining Folk Music ; 2. Early Collectors ; 3. Music for the Masses ; 4. Greenwich Village: 1940s ; 5. Am I In America?: The Red Scare ; 6. Folk Boom ; 7. Movement Music: Civil Rights ; 8. Folk-Rock ; 9. Nu Folk ; 10. The Power of Music ; Biographies of Interviewees ; Notes on the Interviews ; Interview Index ; Discography ; Bibliography

The authors have spent quite a bit of time addressing the critical, interesting, and important question: 'What is folk music?' Defining folk music is not only difficult and complex, it's slipperier than a greased eel! Through the use of extensive quotes and interviews Beer and Dunaway revisit the folk revival head-on, causing me to rethink the role individuals as diverse as Tristam Coffin, Pete Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt played during this important period in American music history.