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Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Category : Ballads, American
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Category : Political ballads and songs
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Brian Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645164X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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Introduction -- Carnival -- The Vulgar Republic -- Jim Crow's Genuine Audience -- Black Song -- Meet the Hutchinsons -- Love Crimes -- The Middle-Class Moment -- Culture Wars -- Black America -- Conclusion: Musical without End

Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Author: Norman Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313088101
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 774

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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: Richard A. Dwyer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520338618
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: Paul Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107159911
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Norman Cazden
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791498646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.