Henry De Marsan's New Comic and Sentimental Singer's Journal
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Page : 452 pages
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Release : 1871
Category : American ballads and songs
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 1871
Category : American ballads and songs
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Author : Dan Gutstein
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1496849361
Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane chronicles the origins and evolution of a folk tune beloved by millions worldwide. Dan Gutstein delves into the trajectory of the “Liza Jane” family of songs, including the most popular variant “Li’l Liza Jane.” Likely originating among enslaved people on southern plantations, the songs are still performed and recorded centuries later. Evidence for these tunes as part of the repertoire of enslaved people comes from the Works Progress Administration ex-slave narratives that detail a range of lyrics and performance rituals related to “Liza Jane.” Civil War soldiers and minstrel troupes eventually adopted certain variants, including “Goodbye Liza Jane.” This version of the song prospered in the racist environment of burnt cork minstrelsy. Other familiar variants, such as “Little Liza Jane,” likely remained fixed in folk tradition until early twentieth-century sheet music popularized the melody. New genres and a slate of stellar performers broadly adopted these folk songs, bringing the tunes to far-reaching listeners. In 1960, to an audience of more than thirty million viewers, Harry Belafonte performed “Little Liza Jane” on CBS. The song was featured on such popular radio shows as Fibber McGee & Molly; films such as Coquette; and a Mickey Mouse animation. Hundreds of recognizable performers—including Fats Domino, Bing Crosby, Nina Simone, Mississippi John Hurt, and Pete Seeger—embraced the “Liza Jane” family. David Bowie even released “Liza Jane” as his first single. Gutstein documents these famous renditions, as well as lesser-known characters integral to the song’s history. Drawing upon a host of cultural insights from experts—including Eileen Southern, Carl Sandburg, Thomas Talley, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Charles Wolfe, Langston Hughes, and Alan Lomax—Gutstein charts the cross-cultural implications of a voyage unlike any other in the history of American folk music.
Author : Paul Watt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190616938
Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in fields as disparate as philosophy and natural science, dramatically shifting the relationship between music and the academy. An exciting and much-needed new volume, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century draws deserved attention to the people and institutions of this period who worked to produce these writings. Editors Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, and Michael Allis, along with an international slate of contributors, discuss music's fascinating and unexpected interactions with debates about evolution, the scientific method, psychology, exoticism, gender, and the divide between high and low culture. Part I of the handbook establishes the historical context for the intellectual world of the period, including the significant genres and disciplines of its music literature, while Part II focuses on the century's institutions and networks - from journalists to monasteries - that circulated ideas about music throughout the world. Finally, Part III assesses how the music research of the period reverberates in the present, connecting studies in aestheticism, cosmopolitanism, and intertextuality to their nineteenth-century origins. The Handbook challenges Western music history's traditionally sole focus on musical work by treating writings about music as valuable cultural artifacts in themselves. Engaging and comprehensive, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century brings together a wealth of new interdisciplinary research into this critical area of study.
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Page : 1748 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Periodicals
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Allusions
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Music
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
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Category : Books on microfilm
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Author : Bryan N. S. Gooch
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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