Sing Out!

{{Short description|Defunct American folk music journal}} {{For|the Nogizaka46 song|Sing Out! (song)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox magazine |title = Sing Out! |image_file = SO!vol50 2.PNG |image_size = 144 |image_caption = ''Sing Out!'' Volume 50 No. 2 (Summer 2006), cover, featuring Dar Williams |editor = Mark Moss |editor_title = |previous_editor = |staff_writer = |frequency = Quarterly |circulation = ~12,000{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} |category = Music magazines |company = Sing Out! Corporation |publisher = |firstdate = May 1950 |lastdate = Spring 2014 |country = United States |based = Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |language = English |website = [http://www.singout.org/ www.singout.org] |issn = 0037-5624 }}

'''''Sing Out!''''' was a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that was published from May 1950 through spring 2014. It was originally based in New York City, with a national circulation of approximately 10,000 by 1960.<ref>{{cite book|last=Zack|first=Ian|title=Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=022623410X|chapter=Chapter Nine: He Knows How Much We Can Bear (1960–61)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=em7_BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126|year=2015|page=119}}</ref>

==Background== ''Sing Out!'' was the primary publication of the tax exempt not-for-profit educational corporation of the same name. According to the organization's website, "''Sing Out!'''s mission is to preserve and support the cultural diversity and heritage of all traditional and contemporary folk musics, and to encourage making folk music a part of our everyday lives."<ref>[http://www.singout.org/ Singout website]. Retrieved October 20, 2008.</ref> Irwin Silber was an important co-founder along with Pete Seeger and was the magazine's long-time editor from 1951 to 1967.<ref>Ronald D. Cohen, ''Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival & American Society, 1940–1970'' (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), pp. 74–75 and 264–268.</ref> Its final editor and executive director, since 1983, was Mark D. Moss. The editors applied a very broad definition of folk music including material from contemporary singer-songwriters, Americana, roots, blues, bluegrass, and world music.

''Sing Out!'' began under a different name, ''People's Songs'' which published "politically charged...civil rights songs, songs of peace and traditional ballads". Because it was committed to being a non-commercial magazine, in 1948, due to financial difficulties,'' People's Songs'' was forced to close. However after some restructuring, the first issue of ''Sing Out!'' was published in May 1950.<ref name="Hengeveld">{{Cite web |last=Hengeveld |first=Matthew R. |date=2010 |title=Who are these folks and their music?: A History of Sing Out! Magazine |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/who-are-these-folks-and-their-music-history-sing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830155645if_/https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/who-are-these-folks-and-their-music-history-sing |archive-date=30 August 2019 |access-date=6 January 2025 |website=Pennsylvania Center for the Book}}</ref>

One defining feature of the magazine was the inclusion of 15 or more songs with lyrics and music within the pages of each issue{{--}}supplemented with an illustrative CD from 2001 until it ceased publication in 2014. The magazine also contained in-depth articles profiling musicians and musical traditions, "teach-ins," reviews of recordings and print publications, a comprehensive festival and camp listing, and columns covering topics such as songwriting, storytelling, children's music, and the folk process.

The corporate headquarters of ''Sing Out!'' were located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is also home to the Sing Out! Resource Center. The magazine was distributed by mail subscriptions and could be found in some North American bookstores and libraries.

== ''Sing Out!'' publications == In addition to the quarterly magazine, the corporation also offered an extensive mail order catalog of printed material on folk-music and folklore. The catalog included other ''Sing Out!'' publications, such as the folk music fake book, ''Rise Up Singing''.

== The ''Sing Out!'' Resource Center == The ''Sing Out!'' Resource Center (SORCe) is a collection of recordings, photos, books, periodicals and other items. It is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

== ''Sing Out! Radio Magazine''== Even after the magazine's print publication ceased, the ''Sing Out! Radio Magazine'' has continued as a weekly syndicated radio program featuring songs, news and interviews with musicians. The show is hosted by Tom Druckenmiller.

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www.singout.org/ Official site] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090401080129/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1197/ Text from recent issues] from FindArticles (archive; 2009) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060207112026/http://www.highbeam.com/browse/Academic+and+Education-Arts-Sing+Out! Additional text reprints] from HighBeam Research * [http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/labels/sing2_out.shtml ''Sing Out!'' Magazine Discography] from folklib.net (not up-to-date). * [https://archive.org/details/pub_sing-out?sort=title ''Sing Out!''] at the Internet Archive

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