American Sea Songs and Chanteys from the Days of Iron Men and Wooden Ships
Author : Frank Shay
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Sea songs
ISBN :
Author : Frank Shay
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Sea songs
ISBN :
Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1987207289
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.
Author : Stan Hugill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1493068288
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
Author : Joseph Charles Hickerson
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Folk songs, American
ISBN :
Author : Christina Gier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1498516017
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (1917) announces: “Music will help win the war!” This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World War. It was an idea both imagined and practiced, from military culture to sheet music writers, about the power of music to help create a strong military and national community in the face of the conflict; it appears straightforward. Nevertheless, the published sheet music, in addition to discourse about gender, soldiering and music, evince a more complex picture of society. This book presents a study of sheet music and military singing practices in America during the First World War that critically situates them in the social discourses, including issues of segregation and suffrage, and the historical context of the war. The transfer of musical styles between the civilian and military realm was fluid because so many men were enlisted from homes with the sheet music while they were also singing songs in their military training. Close musical analysis brings the meaningful musical and lyrical expressions of this time period to the forefront of our understanding of soldier and civilian music making at this time.
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810831339
Cumulative index to all three volumes of Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections.
Author : Gale Huntington
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0820336254
The story of Ireland—its graces and shortcomings, triumphs and sorrows—is told by ballads, dirges, and humorous songs of its common people. Music is a direct and powerful expression of Irish folk culture and an aspect of Irish life beloved throughout the rest of the world. Incredibly, the largest single gathering of Irish folk songs had been almost inaccessible because, originally newspaper based, it was available in only three libraries, in Belfast, Dublin, and Washington D.C. Sam Henry's “Songs of the People” makes the music available to a wider audience than the collector ever imagined. Comprising nearly 690 selections, this thoroughly annotated and indexed collection is a treasure for anyone who performs, composes, studies, collects, or simply enjoys folk music. It is valuable as an outstanding record of Irish folk songs before World War II, demonstrating the historical ties between Irish and Southern folk culture and the tremendous Irish influence on American folk music. In addition to the songs themselves and their original commentary, Sam Henry's “Songs of the People” includes a glossary, bibliography, discography, index of titles and first lines, melodic index, index of the original sources of the songs and information about them, geographical index of sources, and three appendixes related to the original song series in the Northern Constitution.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780873386258
Herman Melville's reputation as a great writer has gradually evolved throughout the 20th century. Tempered by studies that emphasize the Western literary tradition, literary appreciation for Melville's use of folklore has been slow in developing. This study focuses on Melville's immersion with and borrowing from oral traditions: both music and narrative; tall-tale humour; nautical folklore; superstition; and legend. The book also acts as a general introduction to Melville's work.
Author : Albert Stoutamire
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780838679104
Each chapter covers a specific period of the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and major areas of activity examined include music on public and social occasions, music merchantry and instruction, concerts, the theater, and music of the church. 42 photographic reproductions.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1948
Category : American literature
ISBN :