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The Ballad Collectors of North America

Author : Scott B. Spencer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810881551
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad Collectors of North America written by Scott B. Spencer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century. However, there is scant information on those individuals responsible for gathering these songs. The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity fills this gap, documenting the efforts of those who transcribed and recorded North American folk songs. Both biographical and topical, this book chronicles not only the most influential of these "song catchers" but also examines the main schools of thought on the collection process, the leading proponents of those schools, and the projects that they shaped. Contributors also consider the role of technology--especially the phonograph--in the collection efforts. Chapters organized by region cover such areas as Appalachia, the West, and Canada, while others devoted to specialized topics from the cowboy tune and occupational song to the commercialization of folk music through song collections and anthologies. Ballad Collectors investigates the larger role of the ballad in the development of American identity, from the national appreciation of cowboy songs in popular culture to the use of Appalachian song forms in radio broadcasts to the role of dustbowl ballads in the urban folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Finally, this collection assesses the changing role of songs and song texts in the academic fields of folklore, anthropology, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Scholars and students of American cultural and social history, as well as fans of North American folk and popular music, will find The Ballad Collectors of North America a fascinating story of how the American folk tradition gained greater visibility, fueling the revolutions that would follow in the writing and performance of American music.

Maine, a Guide 'down East,'

Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760186
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Maine, a Guide 'down East,' written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1937 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: written by workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the state of Maine, sponsored by the Maine Development Commission ...

The Interrupted Forest

Author : Neil Rolde
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1684752701
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Interrupted Forest written by Neil Rolde and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add to this the thousands of farms that have grown back to woods since the Civil War, and you have the most forested state, by percentage, in the United States. But the “uninterrupted forest” that Henry David Thoreau first saw in the 1840s was never exactly that. Loggers had cut it severely, European settlers had gnawed into it, and, much earlier, native people had left their mark. This book takes you deep into the past to understand the present, allowing you to hear the stories of the people and events that have shaped the woods and made them what they are today.

The WPA Guide to Maine

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342176
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to Maine written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. WPA Guide to Maine focuses in on the very tip of the Northeastern United States, also known as the Pine Tree State. With a short but comprehensive description of Maine’s history, two of the most enthralling sections of the guide include essays on Maine’s folklore and maritime heritage.

The New England Quarterly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New England Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Bibliography. Articles on the history of New England in periodical literature.

Pirates and Lost Treasure of Coastal Maine

Author : Greg Latimer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467141003
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Pirates and Lost Treasure of Coastal Maine written by Greg Latimer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a rugged coast and more than four thousand offshore islands, Maine's dark waters attracted sea raiders like Dixie Bull from the 1600s through colonial times. Pirate treasure still awaits discovery in Phippsburg and Machias, and pirate deceit prompted a massacre in ancient Fort Loyall. The infamous Captain Kidd may have prowled the waters off Deer Isle, while farther down the coast a woman and a bloodthirsty band of cutthroats lured ships to disaster at Isles of Shoals." --supplied by publisher.

Ballad Theory and Technique

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Ballad Theory and Technique written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bulletin

Author : Maine State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by Maine State Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drive Dull Care Away

Author : Edward D. Ives
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780919013346
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Drive Dull Care Away written by Edward D. Ives and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other folklorists of his time, the author started out as a folksinger--guitar, levis, and all--but it wasn't long before his folksinging led him to folksong collecting. This book is a record of that collecting in Prince Edward Island, starting with his memorable trip up the Western Road in 1957, accompanied by the legendary "Big Jim" Pendergast. Based on his journals, field recordings (fourteen of which are included on an accompanying CD), and a prodigious memory, the author has reconstructed those visits to Prince Edward Island. This book is not only a collection of folksongs from Canada's smallest province, but also an account of the people he met and the adventures he had along the way. Part social history, part memoir, this book explores a traditional culture on the cusp of dramatic change.

Maine Library Bulletin

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Maine Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Northwest Musical Herald

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Northwest Musical Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saturday Review of Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Saturday Review of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media

Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663730X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media written by Tim Brooks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.

Minstrelsy of Maine

Author : Mary Winslow Smyth
Publisher : Boston : H. Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Minstrelsy of Maine written by Mary Winslow Smyth and published by Boston : H. Mifflin. This book was released on 1927 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Publishers Weekly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Folk Songs [2 volumes]

Author : Norman Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313088101
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book American Folk Songs [2 volumes] written by Norman Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865–1946

Author : Pauleena M. MacDougall
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073917911X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865–1946 written by Pauleena M. MacDougall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eckstorm was the daughter of a fur trader living in Maine who published six books and many articles on natural history, woods culture, and Indian language and lore. A writer from Maine with a national readership, Eckstorm drew on her unique relationship with both Maine woodsmen and Maine's Native Americans that grew out of the time she spent in the woods with her father. She developed a complex system of work largely based on oral tradition, recording and interpreting local knowledge about animal behavior and hunting practices, boat handling, ballad singing, Native American languages, crafts, and storytelling. Her work has formed the foundation for much scholarship in New England folklore and history and clearly illustrates the importance of indigenous and folk knowledge to scholarship. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865–1946 reveals an important story which speaks directly to contemporary issues as historians of science, social science and humanities begin to re-evaluate the nature, content, and role of indigenous and folk knowledge systems. Eckstorm's life and work illustrate the constant tension between local lay knowledge and the more privileged scientific production of academics that increasingly dominated the field from the early twentieth century. At the time Eckstorm was writing, the growth in professionalism and eclipse of the amateur led to a reorganization of knowledge. As increasing specialization defined the academy, indigenous knowledge systems were dismissed as unscientific and born of ignorance. Eckstorm recognized and lauded the innate value of traditional knowledge that could, for example, fell trees in the interior of Maine and ship them internationally as finished lumber.