Author: Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721299
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Alabamians have always been a singing people. The settlers who moved into the various sections of the state brought with them songs which reflected their national origins and geographical backgrounds, and as they spread into the hills and over the lowlands they created new songs out of the conditions under which they lived. Also, they absorbed songs from outside sources whenever these pieces could be adapted to their sentiments and ways of life. Thus, by a process of memory, composition and recreation they developed a rich body of folk songs. The following collection a part of the effort to discover and preserve these songs.
The Alabama Folk Lyric
Author: Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721299
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Alabamians have always been a singing people. The settlers who moved into the various sections of the state brought with them songs which reflected their national origins and geographical backgrounds, and as they spread into the hills and over the lowlands they created new songs out of the conditions under which they lived. Also, they absorbed songs from outside sources whenever these pieces could be adapted to their sentiments and ways of life. Thus, by a process of memory, composition and recreation they developed a rich body of folk songs. The following collection a part of the effort to discover and preserve these songs.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721299
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Alabamians have always been a singing people. The settlers who moved into the various sections of the state brought with them songs which reflected their national origins and geographical backgrounds, and as they spread into the hills and over the lowlands they created new songs out of the conditions under which they lived. Also, they absorbed songs from outside sources whenever these pieces could be adapted to their sentiments and ways of life. Thus, by a process of memory, composition and recreation they developed a rich body of folk songs. The following collection a part of the effort to discover and preserve these songs.
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
Author: Bill C. Malone
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820325511
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820325511
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.
Good Housekeeping
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Author: Frank C. Brown
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822302575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822302575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.
Anti-abolition Tracts and Anti-Black Stereotypes
Author: John David Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815309734
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815309734
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in ...
Author: John Hankins Wallace
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Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Author: Newman Ivey White
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.
On the Air with Dylan Thomas
Author: Dylan Thomas
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A book full of surprises and delights, On the Air with Dylan Thomas presents all of Thomas's BBC radio work (with the exception of "Under Milk Wood", which is available separately). Thomas served his broadcasting apprenticeship as a teenager with his friend Daniel Jones. They set up a "station" between the second and first floors of the Jones' home "Warmley," dubbing it the Warmley Broadcasting Company. Then, starting in 1943 and continuing to his death, Thomas often sat behind a BBC microphone, variously giving radio talks, introducing poetry selections, participating in round-table discussions, reading dramas, essays, and poems. His was a glorious voice and he had a special case and inventiveness on the air.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A book full of surprises and delights, On the Air with Dylan Thomas presents all of Thomas's BBC radio work (with the exception of "Under Milk Wood", which is available separately). Thomas served his broadcasting apprenticeship as a teenager with his friend Daniel Jones. They set up a "station" between the second and first floors of the Jones' home "Warmley," dubbing it the Warmley Broadcasting Company. Then, starting in 1943 and continuing to his death, Thomas often sat behind a BBC microphone, variously giving radio talks, introducing poetry selections, participating in round-table discussions, reading dramas, essays, and poems. His was a glorious voice and he had a special case and inventiveness on the air.
The Edison Kinetogram
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Gems from Judge
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Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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