Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2010.
NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
From Chisholm Trail to Harvard Yard -- Road scholars -- The saga of Lead Belly -- Travels with Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle -- Honeymoon in Haiti -- Doctor Jazz -- Bohemian folklorist -- A bourgeois town -- The people's war -- The century of the common man -- Living on the black list -- The grand tour -- Skiffle : from folk to pop -- The American campaign resumed -- The science of folk song -- To hear the world in a grain of sand -- The culture war -- The global jukebox : "got the world in a jug, the stopper in my hand."
