The Ballad Collectors of North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ballad Collectors of North America write by Scott B. Spencer. This book was released on 2012. The Ballad Collectors of North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The British Traditional Ballad in North America
The British Traditional Ballad in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Traditional Ballad in North America write by Tristram Potter Coffin. This book was released on 2014-07-03. The British Traditional Ballad in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tristram Potter Coffin’s The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide. Roger deV. Renwick’s supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad’s story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America.
American Ballads and Folk Songs
American Ballads and Folk Songs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Ballads and Folk Songs write by John A. Lomax. This book was released on 2013-07-24. American Ballads and Folk Songs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter write by Sarah Nelson. This book was released on 2023-01-24. Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused on preserving the music in its unaltered form. Sarah Jane Nelson chronicles Hunter’s song collecting adventures alongside portraits of the singers and mentors he met along the way. The guitar-strumming Hunter picked up the recording habit to expand his repertoire but almost immediately embraced the role of song preservationist. Being a local allowed Hunter to merge his native Ozark earthiness with sharp observational skills to connect--often more than once--with his singers. Hunter’s own ability to be present added to that sense of connection. Despite his painstaking approach, ballad collecting was also a source of pleasure for Hunter. Ultimately, his dedication to capturing Ozarks song culture in its natural state brought Hunter into contact with people like Vance Randolph, Mary Parler, and non-academic folklorists who shared his values.
The British Traditional Ballad in North America
The British Traditional Ballad in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Traditional Ballad in North America write by Tristram Potter Coffin. This book was released on 1963. The British Traditional Ballad in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
