Ballads And Sea Songs Of Newfoundland

Author : Grace Yarrow Mansfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674012631

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Ballads and Sea-Songs of Newfoundland by Grace Yarrow Mansfield Pdf

Newfoundland songs are diverse in origin. Vast numbers of them come from the British Isles, especially from England and Ireland; many are composed in Newfoundland, usually on English or Irish models; a lesser number of American, Canadian, and French songs are current. The ballads to be found in the Child collection are probably the oldest now sung. Then there are many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century broadside ballads, particularly English, and many nineteenth-century compositions. Such are the backgrounds from which the compilers of this volume have drawn their unusually interesting and delightful collection of ballad texts and ballad music. Expeditions to the island in 1920 and 1929 furnished the tunes; and a genuine interest in folk-literature assured the care and accuracy of the work.

Author : Elizabeth Bristol Greenleaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ballads, Canadian
ISBN : OCLC:632326419

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Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland by Elizabeth Bristol Greenleaf Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Greenleaf (Bristol)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Ballads, Canadian
ISBN : OCLC:1342115774

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Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland by Elizabeth Greenleaf (Bristol) Pdf

Author : Elisabeth (Bristol) Greenleaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : OCLC:456723931

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Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland by Elisabeth (Bristol) Greenleaf Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632326419

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Ballads and sea songs of Newfoundland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pamela J. Gray
Publisher : St. John's Nfld. : Memorial University of Newfoundland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:39000005751313

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Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print, 1842-1974 by Pamela J. Gray Pdf

Author : Dorothy Scarborough
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780369407672

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On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs by Dorothy Scarborough Pdf

How often have I overheard alluring snatches of song, only to be baffled by denial when I asked for more. Kindly black faces smile indulgently as at the vagaries of an imaginative child, when I persist in pleading for the rest. "Nawm, honey, I wa and n and t singing nothing — nothing a-tall! " How often have I been tricked into enthusiasm over the promise of folk-songs, only to hear age-worn phonograph records, — but perhaps so changed and worked upon by usage that they could possibly claim to be folk-songs after all! — or Broadway echoes, or conventional songs by white authors! Yet cajolements might be in vain, even though all the time I knew, by the uncanny instinct of folk-lorists, that there were folk-songs there. And even when you get a song started, when you are listening with your heart in your ear and the greed of the folk-lorist in your eye, you may lose out. If you seem too much interested, the song retreats, draws in like a turtle and s head, and no amount of coaxing will make it venture back. And there is something positively fatal about a pencil! Songs seem to be afraid of lead-poisoning. Or perhaps the pencil is secretly attached by a cord (a vocal cord?) to the singer and s tongue. It must be so, for otherwise, why has it so often happened that when I, distrustful of my tricky memory to hold a precious song, have sneaked a pencil out to take notes, the tongue has suddenly jerked back and refused to wag again? Yet that is not always the case, for sometimes the knowledge that his song is being written down inspires a bard with more respect for it and he gives it freely.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
ISBN : 0920508138

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Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Harrington Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : American ballads and songs
ISBN : UOM:39015031988671

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Folk-songs of the South by John Harrington Cox Pdf

Author : Genevieve Lehr
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0802065864

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Come and I Will Sing You by Genevieve Lehr Pdf

Newfoundlanders have long and lustily sung their folksongs, and the tradition remains strong today. Despite modern influences, the old songs persist, mixed with new songs that are composed to record the events of our time. This is the first major collection of Newfoundland folksongs compiled and edited by native Newfoundlanders. It concentrates on songs of local composition largely ignored by earlier collectors and presents a significant number of songs never before published. For most of the last decade Lehr and Best have been travelling around the island recording the voices and favourite songs of anyone, young and old, who would perform. Recordings took place in family kitchens, on stage heads, and in trap stores while the singer knitted twine or repaired lobster pots, aboard ships at anchor or en route to some small deserted harbour. Humming engines, blowing oilstoves, or clattering supper dishes provided accompaniment. The 120 songs collected here by Lehr and Best have been transcribed by Pamela Morgan and illustrated by Elly Cohen. Some recall the distant past of a long and rich seafaring tradition; others tell of such recent tragedies as the displacement of outport people and the sinking of the Ocean Ranger. The selection represents the state of the folk-song in Newfoundland today; in some part it documents what is lost and forgotten, but it also celebrates what has survived, and thrives.

Author : Scott B. Spencer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780810881556

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The Ballad Collectors of North America by Scott B. Spencer Pdf

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 : William Roy Mackenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UCAL:B3541473

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Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia by William Roy Mackenzie Pdf

Author : William H. Smith,Fenwick Hatt
Publisher : New York : Folklorica
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:39000005657106

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Sea Songs and Ballads from Nineteenth-century Nova Scotia by William H. Smith,Fenwick Hatt Pdf

Author : Kenneth Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Ballads
ISBN : UOM:39015041866883

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Songs of the Newfoundland Outports by Kenneth Peacock Pdf

Author : Shannon Ryan,Larry Small
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0919948537

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Haulin' Rope & Gaff by Shannon Ryan,Larry Small Pdf

Men and boys of Newfoundland's north East Coast always looked forward to the coming of March. It was sealing or swilin' time. Seal meat would give some reprieve to `the long and hungry month of March by which time the family food store was very low. At this time of the year, sealing provided the only opportunity to obtain fresh meat and the pelts brought long awaited cash. Shannon Ryan was bo and bred in Riverhead, Harbor Grace, the one time home of the great sealing industry. He attended secondary school in his home community and later received an education degree from Memorial University. After spending several years teaching in Newfoundland he taught for two years at ranking inlet in North West Territories. In the late 1960's he retu ed to university and later obtained a M. A. in history at Memorial University. He has done extensive research on the Newfoundland seal and cod fisheries and has spent one summer doing fisheries research in Norway. Larry Small was bo and reared in Morton's Harbor, Notre Damme Bay. He killed his first whitecoat at the age of fifteen: the gaff was a dogwood selected from the woods by his father and the hook crafted by the community blacksmith. He attended the one room Methodist school in Morton's Harbor and later took up studies at Memorial University. During his BA at Memorial he came under the influence of the inte ationally known scholar, Herbert Halpert, who inspired him to study for an MA degree of folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. All of his field research has been in Newfoundland outporting community's where he has done extensive work on various aspects of talk among fishermen. Since 1974 he has been teaching in the department of Folklore at Memorial University.