Author: Jennifer C. PostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
An Index to the Field Recordings in the Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Author: Jennifer C. PostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publications of the American Folklife Center
Author: Subject Collections
Author: Publisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
An American Singing Heritage
Author: Norm CohenPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1987207289
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
This edition brings together representative transcriptions of folk songs and ballads in the British-Irish-American oral tradition that have enjoyed widespread familiarity throughout twentieth-century America. Within are the one hundred folk songs that most frequently occurred in a methodical survey of Roud’s Folk Song Index, catalogues of commercial early country (or "hillbilly") recordings, and relevant archival collections. The editors selected sources for transcriptions in a broad range of singing styles and representing many regions of the United States. The selections attempt to avoid the biases of previous collections and provide a fresh group of examples, many heretofore unseen in print. The sources for the transcriptions are recordings of traditional musicians from the 1920s through the early 1940s drawn from (1) commercial recordings of "hillbilly" musicians, and (2) field recordings in the collection of the Library of Congress’s Archive of American Folk Song, now part of the Archive of Folk Culture. Each transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing essay discussing the song’s history and influence, recording and performance information (whenever available), and an examination of the tune. The edition begins with a substantive essay about the history of folk song recordings and folk song scholarship, and the nature of traditional vocal music in the United States.
Folklife Center News
Author: Ethnomusicology
Author: Helen MyersPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393033786
Category : Alm
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Complementing Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, this volume of studies, written by world-acknowledged authorities, places the subject of ethnomusicology in historical and geographical perspective. Part I deals with the intellectual trends that contributed to the birth of the discipline in the period before World War II. Organized by national schools of scholarship, the influence of 19th-century anthropological theories on the new field of "comparative musicology" is described. In the second half of the book, regional experts provide detailed reviews by geographical areas of the current state of ethnomusicological research.
Subject Collections
Author: Lee AshPublisher: New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Folklife Center News
Author: American Folklife CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women
Author: Deborah CliffordPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461747570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Long Steel Rail
Author: Norm CohenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068812
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.