New American Songster Traditional Ballads and Songs of North America

Name: New American Songster Traditional Ballads and Songs of North America
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ISBN: 9780819183859

ISBN-10: 0819183857

ISBN-13: 9780819183859

Edition: Revised

Authors: Charles W. Darling

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A revised and updated edition (first in 1983) of Darling's wonderful compilation of North American folk music in the Anglo-Scots-Irish- African tradition, with notes, discographies, bibliography, and a new section on mail-order companies specializing in folk music. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $51.50
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 420
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584

Folk Music and the Folk Process	p. 1
Definitions and explanations	p. 1
The folk process illustrated	p. 4
The Classic Ballads	p. 17
Supernatural	p. 17
Religious themes	p. 36
Fatal romance	p. 43
Tragedy	p. 56
Love conquers all	p. 66
Humor	p. 78
Protest	p. 83
American Ballads from British Broadsides	p. 95
War	p. 96
Sailors and the sea	p. 97
Crime	p. 102
Lovers: opposition and deception	p. 114
True-lovers and false true-lovers	p. 126
Humorous and miscellaneous	p. 144
Native American Ballads	p. 155
War	p. 156
Cowboys and pioneers	p. 164
Lumberjacks and sailors	p. 176
Crime	p. 187
Murder	p. 196
Tragedy	p. 208
Miscellaneous	p. 225
Black	p. 230
Songs: White Country and Black Blues	p. 249
Play-party and dance	p. 249
Religious and spiritual	p. 258
Love: telling it like it is	p. 267
Roaming, gambling, and drinking	p. 279
Country blues	p. 291
Songs: Work and Struggle	p. 309
Work: sea shanties	p. 309
Work: black work gang	p. 322
Bunk house and campfire	p. 328
Protest	p. 336
Record Companies	p. 392
Mail-Order Sources	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 394
Song Index	p. 401
About the Author	p. 409
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