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Author : John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486319926
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 069104399X
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Author : Montgomery Ward,Montgomery Ward & Co.
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781602392380
Before the Internet, Wal-Mart, and the shopping mall, there was Montgomery Ward.
Author : Francis James Child
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486431452
The rich field of English balladry was virgin territory before Francis James Child entered it. The few published ballad editions that existed were unreliable, filled with unacknowledged editorial changes and distortions of the original manuscripts. Professor Child compiled all the extant ballads with all known variants, and made them available for the first time — together with his invaluable commentary that prefaces each work — in a single source that maintained absolute fidelity to the original texts. Published between 1882 and 1898, the original ten-part study became the definitive collection of popular ballads in the English language, never to be superceded. To this day, scholars and devotees speak of "The Child Ballads" with the awe and respect generated by few other literary works. Volume 1: Parts I and II of the original set, ballads 1-53 including "Edward," "Lord Randal," "Tam Lin," "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight," "Earl Brand," "Thomas Rymer," more. Biographical sketch of Child by Prof. Kittredge, Child's portrait, additions and corrections.
Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107161528
The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.
Author : Phillips Barry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : American ballads
ISBN : IND:39000003245854
Author : Steve Sullivan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810882966
From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting.
Author : David Ewen,Mischa Portnoff,Wesley Portnoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258401576
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015023900056
Author : Benjamin Filene
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 080784862X
In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo
Author : the late Russell Sanjek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190243296
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.
Author : Bertrand Harris Bronson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400872671
Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unsurpassed in its presentation of texts, this exhaustive collection devoted little attention to the ballad music, a want that was filled by Bertrand Harris Bronson in his four volume Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. The present book is an abridged, one-volume edition of that work, setting forth music and text for proven examples of oral tradition, with a new comprehensive introduction. Its convenient format makes readily available to students and scholars the materials for a study of the Child ballads as they have been preserved in the British-American singing tradition. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Scott B. Spencer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780810881556
Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century. However, there is scant information on those individuals responsible for gathering these songs. The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity fills this gap, documenting the efforts of those who transcribed and recorded North American folk songs. Both biographical and topical, this book chronicles not only the most influential of these "song catchers" but also examines the main schools of thought on the collection process, the leading proponents of those schools, and the projects that they shaped. Contributors also consider the role of technology--especially the phonograph--in the collection efforts. Chapters organized by region cover such areas as Appalachia, the West, and Canada, while others devoted to specialized topics from the cowboy tune and occupational song to the commercialization of folk music through song collections and anthologies. Ballad Collectors investigates the larger role of the ballad in the development of American identity, from the national appreciation of cowboy songs in popular culture to the use of Appalachian song forms in radio broadcasts to the role of dustbowl ballads in the urban folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Finally, this collection assesses the changing role of songs and song texts in the academic fields of folklore, anthropology, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Scholars and students of American cultural and social history, as well as fans of North American folk and popular music, will find The Ballad Collectors of North America a fascinating story of how the American folk tradition gained greater visibility, fueling the revolutions that would follow in the writing and performance of American music.
Author : Bergerac
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486288854
Expert settings of 25 American folk classics by a well-known composer and arranger for young pianists. Includes "Amazing Grace," "Aura Lee," "Blue Tail Fly," "The Gift to Be Simple," "Go Down Moses," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Shortnin' Bread," and "Sweet Betsy from Pike."
Author : David Ewen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Music
ISBN : 0130224421
Surveys the history of all categories of American popular music from colonial times to the present, with information on the music, composers, performers, and entrepreneurs.