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A Short History of Folk Music (People Music) with Doug Morris at Dillsburg Area Public Library
A short-history of folk music (people’s music!) in two parts will include singing and commentary from Dr. Doug Morris (West Chester University professor). There are tens of thousands of songs in the “folk” tradition, we will not sing or talk about all of them (hence, “a short history”).
Part 1 (March 5) will cover the years from roughly 1840 to 1940, and will include: field songs, dance songs, freedom songs, railroad songs, protest songs, union songs (e.g., from Joe Hill, and the Industrial Workers of the World, Florence Reese, etc.), Dustbowl songs (Woody Guthrie), etc. Audience participation will be encouraged – singing, insights, dialogue, etc.!
Part 2 (April 2) will pick up with Woody Guthrie, and include commentary about and songs by Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Malvina Reynolds, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Waits, John Prince, and others. Audience participation will be encouraged. Pete Seeger said “some music can help us escape our troubles; some music can help us understand our troubles, and some music can help us do something about our troubles.” In the “short history of people’s music,” we will attempt to share music that taps into escape, understanding, and transformation. And we will talk about, and it is hoped, experience, what Pete called “the folk process.”
Doug Morris (Ph.D., Penn State) teaches in the world of critical pedagogy at West Chester University, is a former jazz guitarist, is a singer, composer, and performer of “people’s songs,” and has written about Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and others in the tradition of “people’s music.”
No registration is required for this free program.
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