Our Common Life: Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall with Stephen Wade

Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir · Marshall Poe

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

Our Common Life: Folk Song from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall (U Illinois Press, 2026) by Stephen Wade is part memoir, part meditation on American culture, and part historical narrative of folk music. Wade centers this book around individual musicians and songs that provide a specificity to his discussion that is different from a typical historical survey. These individuals and their stories demonstrate how folklore offers a way of understanding the world. Filled with original research and abundantly illustrated with both color and black and white photography, Our Common Life illuminates the truth that creative freedom within informal t...