"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing - 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 Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing write by Guy Logsdon. This book was released on 1995. "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One of the finest works to come out in recent years on cowboy songs, in addition to being the first good collection of the cowboy's bawdy material. . . . A must for anyone who is a student of cowboy music--or anyone who just likes the sound of dirty subject matter rhyming." -- Hal Cannon, Journal of Country Music "A brave and honest step toward increasing our understanding of what cowboys really sing." -- Bob Bovee, Old Time Herald "A thorough piece of scholarship and collectanea and a valuable, welcome addition to cowboy song literature." -- Keith Cunningham, Mid-America Folklore "Logsdon has written the book with a scholar's attention to detail. But what shows through the scholarship is the collector's enthusiasm for the material. . . . A superb job in a difficult area." -- Angus Kress Gillespie, Journal of American History "A major contribution to the folklore and popular culture, history, and social psychology of American cowboy culture." -- Kenneth S. Goldstein, former president, American Folklore Society
Chasing the Rising Sun
Chasing the Rising Sun - 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 Chasing the Rising Sun write by Ted Anthony. This book was released on 2007-07-13. Chasing the Rising Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century. Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans -- a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. But that barely scratches the surface; few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun." The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book Our Singing Country. In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. Today, hundreds of artists have recorded "House of the Rising Sun," and it can be heard in the most diverse of places -- Chinese karaoke bars, Gatorade ads, and as a ring tone on cell phones. Anthony began his search in New Orleans, where he met Eric Burdon of the Animals. He traveled to the Appalachians -- to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina -- to scour the mountains for the song's beginnings. He found Homer Callahan, who learned it in the mountains during a corn shucking; he discovered connections to Clarence "Tom" Ashley, who traveled as a performer in a 1920s medicine show. He went to Daisy, Kentucky, to visit the family of the late high-lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, and finally back to Bourbon Street to see if there really was a House of the Rising Sun. He interviewed scores of singers who performed the song. Through his own journey he discovered how American traditions survived and prospered -- and how a piece of culture moves through the modern world, propelled by technology and globalization and recorded sound.
Never Without a Song
Never Without a Song - 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 Never Without a Song write by Katharine D. Newman. This book was released on 1995. Never Without a Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Never Without a Song focuses on the centrality of folksong in the life of Jennie Devlin, a woman who worked for fourteen years as a "bound-out girl" along the New York-Pennsylvania border and later lived in Philadelphia and Gloucester, New Jersey. Katharine Newman met Devlin in 1936 and compiled information about the older woman's life and music. Half a century later, Newman returned to her collection in retirement-with her own perspective of age. The result is a unique biography of an American working-class woman, told with depth and candor. It includes "I Wish I'd Been Born a Boy," "James Bird," "Martha Decker," "My Grandmother's Old Armchair," and other pieces, both British and American, most with tunes.
The Cowboy Encyclopedia
The Cowboy Encyclopedia - 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 Cowboy Encyclopedia write by Richard W. Slatta. This book was released on 1996. The Cowboy Encyclopedia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Life Flows on in Endless Song
Life Flows on in Endless Song - 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 Life Flows on in Endless Song write by Robert V. Wells. This book was released on 2009. Life Flows on in Endless Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engaging survey of what folk songs tell us about the American past
