Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals Book

What a great collection of reminiscing and illumination of the folk music revivals by key movers and shakers - performers as well as those behind the scenes - of the 1930s, 1950s, and into the early 21st century. The authors conducted interviews with key players and condensed some of them for this book around themes like early collectors, the Greenwich Village scene, the Red Scare, and even folk-rock. It is fascinating to hear, not only from Pete Seeger in his own words, but from his father, musicologist Charles Seeger (Like father, like son - Like Pete, Charles had his own problems with the federal government). It is great fun to just pick it up and read a few quotes from these interviews.