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Author : Alan Lomax,Sidney Robertson Cowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042497318
Author : Richard Chase
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486172880
Full of lively stories, jokes, and games for performance, the book also includes 40 songs with melody and guitar chords. Written by outstanding practicing folk performer. Includes 44 illustrations.
Author : John Harrington Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : American ballads and songs
ISBN : UOM:39015031988671
Author : Alan Lomax,Sidney Robertson Cowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 0403016150
Author : Benjamin Filene
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Ruth Crawford Seeger,Larry Polansky
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 158046095X
This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included "Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. It just killed her . . . She was trying to analyze the whole style and problem of performing this music." Along with her children Mike and Peggy Seeger, he has long desired to see this work in print as it was meant to be read. The manuscript has been edited from several varying sources by Larry Polansky, with the assistance of Seeger's biographer Judith Tick. It is divided into two sections: I. "A Note on Transcription" and II. "Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing." Seeger examines all aspects of the relationship between singer, song, notation, the eventual performer, and the transcriber. In Section I, Seeger develops a complex and well-organized system of notation for these songs which is meant to be both descritive (transcription as cultural preservation) and prescriptive (she intended that others would be able to perform these songs). In Section II, she provides an interpretive theory for performance of this music, and suggests how performers might make the songs "their own" through a deep knowledge of the original styles. Ruth Crawford Seeger considered this work to be both a major accomplishment and a central statement of her own ideas on the topic. Larry Polansky is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and a well-known composer and theorist on American music. Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University and author of the first major biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger.
Author : Amy L. Cohn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0590428683
A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.
Author : John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000117447072
Author : John David Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317459866
These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race. This book focuses on problems confronted while researching, writing and interpreting race and slavery, such as conflict between ideological perspectives, and changing interpretations of the questions.
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1687 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135578770
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Author : Norman Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313088100
This state-by-state collection of folksongs describes the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states. Unlike all other state folksong collections, this one does not focus on songs collected in the particular states, but rather on songs concerning the life and times of the people of that state. The topics range from the major historical events, such as the Boston Tea Party, the attack on Fort Sumter, and the California Gold Rush, to regionally important events such as disasters and murders, labor problems, occupational songs, ethnic conflicts. Some of the songs will be widely recognized, such as Casey Jones, Marching Through Georgia, or Sweet Betsy from Pike. Others, less familiar, have not been reprinted since their original publication, but deserve to be studied because of what they tell about the people of these United States, their loves, labors, and losses, and their responses to events. The collection is organized by regions, starting with New England and ending with the states bordering the Pacific Ocean, and by states within each region. For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context. References to available recordings and other versions are given. Folksongs, such as those discussed here, are an important tool for historians and cultural historians because they sample experiences of the past at a different level from that of contemporary newspaper accounts and academic histories. These songs, in a sense, are history writ small. Includes: Away Down East, The Old Granite State, Connecticut, The Virginian Maid's Lament, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, I'm Going Back to North Carolina, Shut up in Cold Creek Mine, Ain't God Good to Iowa?, Dakota Land, Dear Prairie Home, Cheyenne Boys, I'm off for California, and others.
Author : Joseph Charles Hickerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : IND:30000077200792
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UVA:X001851163
Author : Bruce M. Conforth
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810884892
In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed—and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert. Compiled between the World Wars, Gellert's recordings were immediately adopted by the American Left as the voice of the true American proletariat, with the songs—largely variants of traditional work songs or blues—dubbed by the Left as "songs of protest." As both the songs and Gellert’s standing itself turned into propaganda weapons of left-wing agitators, Gellert experienced a meteoric rise within the circles of left-wing organizations and the American Communist party. But such success proved ephemeral, with Gellert contributing to his own neglect by steadfastly refusing to release information about where and from whom he had collected his recordings. Later scholars, as a result, would skip over his closely held, largely inaccessible research, with some asserting Gellert’s work had been doctored for political purposes. And to a certain extent they were correct. Conforth reveals how Gellert at least "assisted" in the creation of some of his more political material. But hidden behind the few protest songs that Gellert allowed to become public was a vast body of legitimate African America folksongs—enough to rival the work of any of his contemporary collectors. Had Gellert granted access to all his material, scholars would have quickly seen that it comprised an incredibly complete and diverse collection of all African American song genres: work songs, blues, chants, spirituals, as well as the largest body of African American folktales about Irish Americans (what were referred to as "One Time I'shman" tales). It also included vast swaths of African American oral literature collected by Gellert as part of the Federal Writers' Project. In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics, Conforth brings to light for the first time the entire body of work collected by Lawrence Gellert, establishing his place, and the place for the material he collected, within the pages of American folk song scholarship. In addition to shedding new light on the concept of "protest music" within African American folk music, Conforth discusses the unique relationship of the American Left to this music and how personal psychology and the demands of the American Communist party would come to ruin Gellert’s life. African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of American social and political history, African American studies, the history of American folk music, and ethnomusicology.