{"product_id":"a-sound-history-steven-p-garabedian-9781625345301","title":"A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial","description":"Lawrence Gellert has long been a mysterious figure in American folk and blues studies, gaining prominence in the left-wing folk revival of the 1930s for his fieldwork in the U.S. South. A \"lean, straggly-haired New Yorker,\" as \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine called him, Gellert was an independent music collector, without formal training, credentials, or affiliation. At a time of institutionalized suppression, he worked to introduce white audiences to a tradition of black musical protest that had been denied and overlooked by prior white collectors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By the folk and blues revival of the 1960s, however, when his work would again seem apt in the context of the civil rights movement, Gellert and his collection of \u003ci\u003eNegro Songs of Protest\u003c\/i\u003e were a conspicuous absence. A few leading figures in the revival defamed Gellert as a fraud, dismissing his archive of black vernacular protest as a fabrication--an example of left-wing propaganda and white interference.\u003ci\u003e A Sound History\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an individual life, an excavation of African American musical resistance and dominant white historiography, and a cultural history of radical possibility and reversal in the defining middle decades of the U.S. twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven P. Garabedian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625345305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625345301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Steven P. Garabedian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149484191999,"sku":"9781625345301","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f56fc4ac-fb35-423f-9b63-5229661cac6c.jpg?v=1688456971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-sound-history-steven-p-garabedian-9781625345301","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}