TY - BOOK ID - 136507007 TI - Richard Dyer-Bennet PY - 2010 SN - 1283341344 9786613341341 1604733616 9781496800466 149680046X 9781604733600 1604733608 9781604733617 PB - Jackson University Press of Mississippi DB - UniCat KW - Folk singers KW - Dyer-Bennet, Richard. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136507007 AB - In the 1940's and '50's, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the ""Twentieth-Century Minstrel."" Dyer-Bennet's approach to singing sounded almost foreign to many American listeners. The folk artist followed a musical tradition in danger of dying out. The Swede Sven Scholander was the last European proponent of minstrelsy and served as Dyer-Bennet's inspiration after the young singer traveled to Stockholm to meet him one year before Scholander' ER -