Romancing the Folk : Public Memory and American Roots Music

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(8) Setting the Stage Identifying an American Folk Music Heritage, 1900--1930 9(38) Creating the Cult of Authenticity The Lomaxes Lead Belly 47(29) Mastering the Cult of Authenticity: Leonard Chess Willie Dixon and the Strange Career of Muddy Waters 76(57) Searching for Folk Music's Institutional Niche 133(50) Alan Lomax Charles Seeger B. A. Botkin Richard Dorson Performing the Folk 183(50) Pete Seeger Bob Dylan Coda 233(4) Notes 237(42) Bibliography 279(24) Discography 303(2) Permissions 305(2) Index 307