Author: Mody Coggin Boatright
Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The charm of this book of travelers -- wayfarers that include not only stories, but ballads, animal names, bits of folk speech, even the cries of street peddlers.
Author: Texas Folklore Society
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Mody Coggin Boatright
Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The charm of this book of travelers -- wayfarers that include not only stories, but ballads, animal names, bits of folk speech, even the cries of street peddlers.
Author: Jón R. Hjálmarsson
Publisher:
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Bobbie Malone
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806191392
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, Tim O’Brien has ceaselessly explored the vast American musical landscape. While Appalachia and Ireland eventually became facets of the defining myth surrounding him and his music, he has digested a broad array of roots styles, reshaping them to his own purposes. Award-winning biographer Bobbie Malone and premier country music historian Bill C. Malone have teamed again, this time to chronicle O’Brien’s career and trace the ascent of Hot Rize and its broadening and enrichment of musical traditions. At the beginning of that career, O’Brien moved from his native West Virginia to the Rocky Mountain West. In just a few years, he became the lead singer, mandolin and fiddle player, and principal songwriter of beloved 1980s bluegrass band Hot Rize. Seeking to move beyond bluegrass, he next went to Nashville. O’Brien’s success in navigating the shoals of America’s vast reservoir of folk musical expressions took him into the realm of what is now called Americana. The core of Tim O’Brien’s virtuosity is his abiding and energetic pursuit of the next musical adventure. As a traveler, he has ranged widely in choosing the next instrument, song, style, fellow musicians, or venue. Written with O’Brien’s full cooperation and the input of family, friends, colleagues, and critics, Traveler provides the first complete, behind-the-scenes picture of a thoroughly American self-made musical genius—the boy who grew up listening to country artists at the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree and ended up charting a new course through American music.
Author: Mody Coggin Boatright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758132147
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Author: Mary Huse Eastman
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Author: James Frank Dobie
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Author: Mody Coggin Boatright
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842028929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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This lively reader traces the search for American tradition and national identity through folklore and folklife from the 19th century to the present. Through an engaging set of essays, Folk Nation shows how American thinkers and leaders have used folklore-ranging from Paul Bunyan and Davey Crockett to quilts, cowboys, and immigrants-to express the meaning and mystique of their country. Simon Bronner has carefully selected statements by public intellectuals and popular writers as well as by scholars, all chosen for their readability and significance as provocative texts during their time. The common thread running throughout is the value of folklore in expressing or denying an American national tradition.