The American Songbag
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: IND:39000005763698
Category: Music
Page: 495
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Language: en
Pages: 495
Pages: 495
Two hundred and eighty songs and ballads trace the growth of America
Language: en
Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Both biographical and topical, The Ballad Collectors of North America chronicles those individuals most influential in the gathering of North American folksongs and investigates the two leading schools of thought regarding the collection process, the leading proponents of those schools, and the projects shaped by them. Contributors also reflect on
Language: en
Pages: 107
Pages: 107
Language: en
Pages: 1128
Pages: 1128
America is a nation making itself up as it goes alongÑa story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a
Language: en
Pages: 625
Pages: 625
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and
