Author: Altona Trent JohnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Play Songs of the Deep South
Author: Altona Trent JohnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Play Songs of the Deep South
Author: Altona Trent JohnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's songs
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Music of Deep South
Author: Valérie SanchezSongs and Ballads of the Southern People: 1861-1865
Author: VariousPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
"Songs and Ballads of the Southern People" is a collection of songs and ballads common to the people of the southern states of the United States. It is compiled and edited by Frank Moore. He states, "This collection has been made with the view of preserving in permanent form the opinions and sentiments of the Southern people, as embodied in their Songs and Ballads of 1861-1865; which, better than any other medium, exhibit the temper of the times and popular feeling. The historical value of the productions is admitted."
Songs of the South ... from Colonial Times to the Present Day
Author: Rythm Oil
Author: Stanley BoothPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306809798
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Here are Stanley Booth's acclaimed writings about the South and the music that emanates from it. Rythm Oil—you don't have to know how to spell "rhythm" to have it in your body and soul—is a potion sold on Beale Street in Memphis. The home of Sun Records, B. B. King, Elvis Presley, Howlin' Wolf, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Memphis is also the home of fantastic stories and broke-down dreams. As Booth makes his way from Memphis to the Mississippi Delta to the depths of the Georgia woods exploring the sounds, the music, and the culture of the American South, "he has produced some of the most gracefully written, thoughtful, and thought-stirring musings on the characters—the famous and the forgotten, the infamous and the unknown—who command the kingdom or drift through the shadowland of the South's rich-chorded patrimony" (Nick Tosches, Los Angeles Times).
Songs of the South
Author: Jennie Thornley ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865
Author: Henry Marvin WhartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Reinventing Dixie
Author: John Bush JonesPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080715945X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Tin Pan Alley, once New York City’s songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary view of the South as a land of southern belles, gallant gentlemen, and racial harmony. In profiles of Tin Pan Alley’s lyricists and composers, Jones explains how a group of undereducated and untraveled writers—the vast majority of whom were urban northerners or European immigrants— constructed the specific and detailed images of the South used in their song lyrics. In the process of evaluating the origins of Tin Pan Alley’s songbook, Jones analyzes these songwriters’ attitudes about North-South reconciliation, ideals of honor and hospitality, and the recurring theme of the yearning for home. Though a few of the songs employed parody or satire to undercut the vision of a peaceful, romantic South, the majority ignored the realities of racism and poverty in the region. By the end of Tin Pan Alley’s era of cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth century, Jones contends that the work of its writers had cemented the “moonlight and magnolias” myth in the minds of millions of Americans. Reinventing Dixie sheds light on the role of songwriters in forming an idyllic vision of the South that continues to influence the American imagination.
Deep South
Author: Paul TherouxPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544323521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye."--