Author : Jerry Silverman
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1610650301
A fascinating collection of fifty historic American love songs and ballads. the songs are arranged in piano/vocal format with guitar chords shown and range from sentimental Southern Mountain ballads to jazzy Tin Pan Alley numbers.
Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199357579
Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modern musical expression.
Author : John A. Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 048631992X
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 : Paul Slade
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 099294807X
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
Author : Brett Young
Publisher : Tommy Nelson
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1400225035
Country music phenom Brett Young's touching single "Lady" is dedicated to his wife and baby girl, and the two serve as the inspiration behind this beautiful picture book that reflects the boundless love parents have watching their baby girl grow into a "little lady." There's something special about the love between a father and daughter. In Love You, Little Lady, award-winning singer-songwriter Brett Young writes a love letter to his daughter as he shares what it's like to hear her heartbeat, hold her for the very first time, and watch her take her first steps. This heartfelt picture book is ideal for kids ages 4-8 and shares the wonder of becoming a new parent the unconditional love dads and moms share for their children beautiful artwork, a heartwarming cover, and sweet rhymes inspired by Brett's lyrics Love You, Little Lady makes a perfect gift for Father's Day, Mother's Day, baby showers, baptisms, and adoption parties--or for anyone watching their little sweetheart grow into an amazing young woman. This celebration of the relationship between parents and their child will remind you and your own little lady of the moment you realized that nothing would ever be stronger, or more tender, than the love you have for her.
Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107161525
The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691043999
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Author : Pete Seeger
Publisher : Oak Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 1980-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783234245
Pete Seeger is an outstanding folksinger and an American treasure. Millions in every corner of the globe have listened to and sung along with Seeger—discovering the riches of America's folk song heritage. Originally published in 1961, this book includes the most popular songs in Pete Seeger's songbag. 84 traditional folk songs, including such favorites as "Irene Goodnight," "Darline Corey," "Shenandoah," etc. Each song comes complete with melody line, lyrics, guitar chords, and Seeger's own introductory comments. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 100 reproductions of documentary prints and wood-cuts, American Favorite Ballads presents a rich panorama of our America's great folk song legacy.
Author : Ira Dworkin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469632721
In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.
Author : Scott Timberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300195885
Argues that United States' creative class is fighting for survival and explains why this should matter to all Americans.
