Bibliograph

Wasn't that a time, the Weavers, the blacklist, and the battle for the soul of America, Jesse Jarnow

Type

Label

Wasn't that a time, the Weavers, the blacklist, and the battle for the soul of America, Jesse Jarnow

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wasn't that a time

Oclc number

1028165137

Responsibility statement

Jesse Jarnow

Sub title

the Weavers, the blacklist, and the battle for the soul of America

Summary

Following a series of top-ten hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger's unlikely band of folk heroes, from basement hootenannies to the top of the charts, and the harassment campaign that brought them down. Exploring how a pop group's harmonies might be heard as a threat worthy of decades of investigation by the FBI, Wasn't That a Time turns the black-and-white 1950s into vivid color, using the Weavers to illuminate a dark and complex period of American history. With origins in the radical folk collective the Almanac Singers and the ambitious People's Songs, the singing activists in the Weavers set out to change the world with songs as their weapons, pioneering the use of music as a transformative political organizing tool

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