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Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry ISBN: Cox 9781781799178 (hb) by Bruce Lindsay PRICE: $29.95 (hb) DESCRIPTION: Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival explores the lives and song traditions of two of PUBLICATION DATE: the most influential English traditional singers: Sam Larner and Harry Cox. Using extensive primary 01 October 2020 (hb) evidence, including recorded interviews with both men, the book provides the first detailed biographies of these great singers, placing their singing and repertoires within the social and cultural BINDING: contexts in which they lived. Hardback Larner and Cox were born within six years and 15 miles of each other, in late-nineteenth century SIZE: Norfolk. Both men grew up in large, working-class, families, started work before their teens, spent 6 x9 their working lives in hard manual labour - Sam as a trawlerman, Harry as a farm labourer - married late and lived into their 80s. Crucially, both men were singers from an early age, amassed large PAGES: repertoires of songs that are now established in the traditional canon and became key figures in the 200 'folk revival' of the 1950s and 60s. They directly influenced performers such as Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, Peggy Seeger, Young Tradition and Steeleye Span, and indirectly influenced Paul Simon PUBLISHER: and Bob Dylan. Their impact extends to the current generation of performers and composers in the Equinox Publishing folk, Americana and singer/songwriter fields and even to Hollywood. IMPRINT: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Equinox Publishing INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: Fields and Fishing SERIES: CHAPTER 2: Two Norfolk Families Popular Music History CHAPTER 3: First Work, First Songs CHAPTER 4: The First Folk Revival READER INTERESTS: CHAPTER 5: A World Turned Upside Down Music CHAPTER 6: Mr Moeran Comes Collecting CHAPTER 7: Harry Finds Fame CHAPTER 8: Building the Repertoire CHAPTER 9: "All we had for entertainment" CHAPTER 10: Sam is "discovered" CHAPTER 11: On the Road CHAPTER 12: The Road Goes on Forever? SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES: Bruce Lindsay has a PhD in history from the University of East Anglia. He is a freelance music journalist and social history researcher writing for All About Jazz and Jazz Journal. In the past he was a semiprofessional guitarist and bassist in R&B, soul and jazz bands and was a regular performer at open-mike nights and folk sessions across East Anglia. He is the author of Shellac & Swing: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain published in 2019. .

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