Mark Allan Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Allan Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle Tennessee State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert
By the early 1960s, the American folk music revival was at its zenith. Clean-cut, college-educated groups such as The Kingston Trio, The Brothers Four, and The Limeliters wailed their way to stardom by covering such folk standards as “Tom Dooley,” “This Train,” and “The Midnight Special.” Fans of this type of music could also get grittier sounding fare through the work of Bob Dylan, Odetta, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. But even these offerings were…
Searching for Woody Guthrie
There is no lack of interest in folk icon and political activist Woody Guthrie. Over just the past two decades, a great number of admirers, musicians, visual artists, journalists, and even his family members have taken the self-styled everyman folk singer as a subject for book-length works. Biographies, photograph and ephemera collections, children's books—even a ukulele-centered songbook, a graphic novel, and a coloring book have appeared. These…
Lead Belly
Book Review| October 01 2017 Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection. 2015. Produced by Jeff Place and Robert Santelli. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, CDs (5), SFW CD 40201. Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Middle Tennessee State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2017) 130 (518): 493–496. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfo…
Sharecropper's Troubadour
Book Review| December 01 2015 Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition. Honey, Michael K.. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013xi + 210 pp., $100.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper) Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Search for other works by this author on: …
If Beale Street Could Talk
Book Review| January 01 2013 If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture. By Robert Cantwell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2013) 126 (499): 106–107. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.126.499.0106 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Book Review| July 01 2012 Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States. By William G. Roy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-14363-7. Hardcover. Pp. ix, 286. $35. Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (2): 265–2…
Sing out, Warning! Sing out, Love
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Dark Memory
Drawing upon the memory of a lynching photograph he saw as a youth, songwriter and political activist CitationWoody Guthrie shaped his own views concerning this barbaric act into the art of his songs. Just as he was turned away from a racist tinged past by a community of politically charged artists and their work, the singer believed that his lyrics had the potential to change public perception on the emotionally charged issue of lynching. Notes …
Is This Song Your Song Anymore
After drifting around New York for almost two months at the beginning of 1940, sleeping on succession of friends' couches, and busking for tips in Bowery saloons, songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie settled into the shabby surroundings of Hanover House, hotel located near the jumble and noise of Times Square. There, on February 23, he wrote God Blessed America, whose six verses ended in the refrain God blessed America for me. Afterwar…
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Is This Song Your Song Anymore
After drifting around New York for almost two months at the beginning of 1940, sleeping on succession of friends' couches, and busking for tips in Bowery saloons, songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie settled into the shabby surroundings of Hanover House, hotel located near the jumble and noise of Times Square. There, on February 23, he wrote God Blessed America, whose six verses ended in the refrain God blessed America for me. Afterwar…
Dark Memory
Drawing upon the memory of a lynching photograph he saw as a youth, songwriter and political activist CitationWoody Guthrie shaped his own views concerning this barbaric act into the art of his songs. Just as he was turned away from a racist tinged past by a community of politically charged artists and their work, the singer believed that his lyrics had the potential to change public perception on the emotionally charged issue of lynching. Notes …
Sing out, Warning! Sing out, Love
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Book Review| July 01 2012 Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States. By William G. Roy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-14363-7. Hardcover. Pp. ix, 286. $35. Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (2): 265–2…
If Beale Street Could Talk
Book Review| January 01 2013 If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture. By Robert Cantwell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2013) 126 (499): 106–107. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.126.499.0106 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Sharecropper's Troubadour
Book Review| December 01 2015 Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition. Honey, Michael K.. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013xi + 210 pp., $100.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper) Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Search for other works by this author on: …
Lead Belly
Book Review| October 01 2017 Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection. 2015. Produced by Jeff Place and Robert Santelli. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, CDs (5), SFW CD 40201. Mark Allan Jackson Mark Allan Jackson Middle Tennessee State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2017) 130 (518): 493–496. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfo…
Searching for Woody Guthrie
There is no lack of interest in folk icon and political activist Woody Guthrie. Over just the past two decades, a great number of admirers, musicians, visual artists, journalists, and even his family members have taken the self-styled everyman folk singer as a subject for book-length works. Biographies, photograph and ephemera collections, children's books—even a ukulele-centered songbook, a graphic novel, and a coloring book have appeared. These…
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert
By the early 1960s, the American folk music revival was at its zenith. Clean-cut, college-educated groups such as The Kingston Trio, The Brothers Four, and The Limeliters wailed their way to stardom by covering such folk standards as “Tom Dooley,” “This Train,” and “The Midnight Special.” Fans of this type of music could also get grittier sounding fare through the work of Bob Dylan, Odetta, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. But even these offerings were…
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