Faking It: The Quest For Authenticity In Popular Music by Yuval Taylor, Hugh Barker

Faking It: The Quest For Authenticity In Popular Music

Yuval Taylor, Hugh Barker

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The book opens with the moment when Kurt Cobain performed 'In the Pines', a death-haunted song made famous by Leadbelly, the black ex-convict who was a touchstone of primeval folk authenticity in the '30s and '40s. But Leadbelly had been manipulat...

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