The Ballad Collectors Of North America

Author : Scott B. Spencer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Sarah Nelson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252054044

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Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter by Sarah Nelson Pdf

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused on preserving the music in its unaltered form. Sarah Jane Nelson chronicles Hunter’s song collecting adventures alongside portraits of the singers and mentors he met along the way. The guitar-strumming Hunter picked up the recording habit to expand his repertoire but almost immediately embraced the role of song preservationist. Being a local allowed Hunter to merge his native Ozark earthiness with sharp observational skills to connect--often more than once--with his singers. Hunter’s own ability to be present added to that sense of connection. Despite his painstaking approach, ballad collecting was also a source of pleasure for Hunter. Ultimately, his dedication to capturing Ozarks song culture in its natural state brought Hunter into contact with people like Vance Randolph, Mary Parler, and non-academic folklorists who shared his values.

Author : Brooks Blevins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682262207

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Up South in the Ozarks by Brooks Blevins Pdf

"Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins is a collection of essays from Brooks Blevins that explore southern history and culture using [the] author's native Ozarks region as a focus. From migrant cotton pickers and fireworks peddlers to country store proprietors and shape-note gospel singers, Blevins leaves few stones unturned in his insightful journeys through a landscape 'wedged betwixt and between the South and the Midwest - and grasping for the West to boot"--

Author : Steve Newman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202939

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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon by Steve Newman Pdf

The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon. For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society.

Author : Ronald D. Cohen,David Bonner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781626745872

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Selling Folk Music by Ronald D. Cohen,David Bonner Pdf

Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of American music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has been marketed as America's music. Selling Folk Music presents the public face of folk music in the United States via its commercial promotion and presentation throughout the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964 hootenanny craze, for example, spawned such items as a candy bar, pinball machine, bath powder, paper dolls, Halloween costumes, and beach towels. The almost five hundred images in Selling Folk Music present a new way to catalog the history of folk music while highlighting the transformative nature of the genre. Following the detailed introduction on the history of folk music, illustrations from commercial products make up the bulk of the work, presenting a colorful, complex history.

Author : John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486319926

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American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax Pdf

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 : Travis D. Stimeling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190233730

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The Country Music Reader by Travis D. Stimeling Pdf

In The Country Music Reader Travis D. Stimeling provides an anthology of primary source readings from newspapers, magazines, and fan ephemera encompassing the history of country music from circa 1900 to the present. Presenting conversations that have shaped historical understandings of country music, it brings the voices of country artists and songwriters, music industry insiders, critics, and fans together in a vibrant conversation about a widely loved yet seldom studied genre of American popular music. Situating each source chronologically within its specific musical or cultural context, Stimeling traces the history of country music from the fiddle contests and ballad collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the most recent developments in contemporary country music. Drawing from a vast array of sources including popular magazines, fan newsletters, trade publications, and artist biographies, The Country Music Reader offers firsthand insight into the changing role of country music within both the music industry and American musical culture, and presents a rich resource for university students, popular music scholars, and country music fans alike.

Author : Steve Sullivan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810882966

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Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings by Steve Sullivan Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the full range of popular music recordings with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. In this 2-volume encyclopedia, Sullivan explores approximately 1,000 song recordings from 1889 to the present, telling the stories behind the songs, recordings, performers, and songwriters. From the Victorian parlor ballad and ragtime hit at the end of the 19th century to today’s rock classics, the Encyclopedia progresses through a parade popular music styles, from jazz to blues to country Western, as well as the important but too often neglected genres of ethnic and world music, gospel, and traditional folk. This book is the ideal research tool for lovers of popular music in all its glorious variety.

Author : Tristram Potter Coffin
Publisher : Philadelphia : American Folklore Society
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UCAL:B4347288

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Potter Coffin Pdf

Author : Elizabeth DiSavino
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813178547

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Katherine Jackson French by Elizabeth DiSavino Pdf

The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University—and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so—Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-started a resurgence of Appalachian music that continues to this day, but French's collection of traditional Kentucky ballads, which should have been her crowning scholarly achievement, never saw print. Academic rivalries, gender prejudice, and broken promises set against a thirty-year feud known as the Ballad Wars denied French her place in history and left the field to northerner Olive Dame Campbell and English folklorist Cecil Sharp, setting Appalachian studies on a foundation marred by stereotypes and misconceptions. Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector tells the story of what might have been. Drawing on never-before-seen artifacts from French's granddaughter, Elizabeth DiSavino reclaims the life and legacy of this pivotal scholar by emphasizing the ways her work shaped and could reshape our conceptions about Appalachia. In contrast to the collection published by Campbell and Sharp, French's ballads elevate the status of women, give testimony to the complexity of balladry's ethnic roots and influences, and reveal more complex local dialects. Had French published her work in 1910, stereotypes about Appalachian ignorance, misogyny, and homogeneity may have diminished long ago. Included in this book is the first-ever publication of Katherine Jackson French's English-Scottish Ballads from the Hills of Kentucky.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102790995

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Pennsylvania School Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas G. Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Folk songs, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216812425

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Collection of Folklore by Thomas G. Burton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007063881

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North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas G. Burton,Ambrose N. Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Folk songs
ISBN : IND:39000005813048

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Collection of Folklore: Folksongs II. by Thomas G. Burton,Ambrose N. Manning Pdf

Author : Francis James Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : IOWA:31858001776420

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child Pdf