The Weavers: Folk Music vs the Black List
In this episode, author Jesse Jarnow and host Nate Wilcox discuss the struggles of progressive artists like the Weavers in the late '40s and early '50s American folk music and pop landscape as detailed in Jarnow's book, “Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist and the Battle for the Soul of America”.
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Show Notes
This week author Jesse Jarnow joins Nate to talk about his book “Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist and the Battle for the Soul of America.” In this episode, Jesse tells Nate about one of America’s unlikeliest million selling pop combos -- the folk singing, unabashedly left wing Weavers and their battles with the paranoid American right wing, all in the context of a pre-rock and roll 50’s when pop was at its all-time whitest and blandest.
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